PuppetLab 2015 – Week 2: Basement Creatures, Dust HOBT’s new artist incubator PuppetLab is back, and celebrating 5 years of radical, genre-expanding, boundary-pushing work. Join us in the Avalon Theater for two weekends of experimental performance from four emerging puppeteers. The 2015 PuppetLab artists are Davey T Steinman, Lelis Brito, Jeong Ae Neal, and Shari…

PuppetLab 2015 – Week 1: Princess Bari, Cellula HOBT’s new artist incubator PuppetLab is back, and celebrating 5 years of radical, genre-expanding, boundary-pushing work. Join us in the Avalon Theater for two weekends of experimental performance from four emerging puppeteers. The 2015 PuppetLab artists are Davey T Steinman, Lelis Brito, Jeong Ae Neal, and Shari…

We’ll be hosting a food drive for PuppetLab this year. See below show descriptions for more details!  PuppetLab is a bold program at HOBT that supports emerging puppet artists in their quest to push outwards at the limits of figure theater. Under the tutelage of Alison Heimstead, four mentor-mentee director teams have been building original…

March 8-10, 2013 I have filthy habits Eben Kowler Two siblings and an explorer cross paths in a terrarium. Weather patterns and behavior trends emerge, as three performers follow their habits into unknown and unstable territories. Five Rules for Walking Rosie Jablonsky Hildegard lives in a world made entirely out of trash. Everything she has…

Puppet Lab: March 1-3, 2013 Lepus Nacht, A Night in the Warren by Benjamin Brockman A glimpse into a postapocalyptic landscape, in which the Lepus play and investigate with unending curiosity and vitality – and discover, that like us, they must remain reverent and obedient to a mysterious natural order. Cartooon by Steve Ackerman A case…

PuppetLab: March 9-11, 2012 The Pollen Road Reed Ellis Aubin A talking plant detoxes and journeys to find roots and a vanishing language, while a farmer loses ground. Check out the video trailer! meet me in the heart caves Daniel Polnau An imaginative dreamlike visual poem spelunking the forbidden cockles of the heart.

PuppetLab: March 2-4, 2012 Melting Mary Parker and Marg Rozycki Evangeline and Angela grapple with how the world transforms. They examine questions of stress, sacrifice, relationship to the world at large, and love. The entire show is grounded in the eternal cycle of life and death. Ain’t Heard Tell Matt Larson and Hannah Rivenburgh With…

February 2011