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'Awakening,' a Hungarian show without words at the upcoming International Puppet Festival, August 17-21, 2025 (Credit Aliz Gyori)
August 15, 2025, 7:22 pm
Jerusalem’s annual puppet festival aims to lighten the mood
International Puppet Festival celebrates its 34th year at the Train Theater in Liberty Bell Park
By Jessica Steinberg
Filmmaker and puppeteer Frank Oz. (Victoria Labalme)
August 10, 2022, 6:44 pm
New Frank Oz exhibit reveals ‘Muppets’ co-creator’s family history of fleeing Nazis
An unconventional glimpse into the famed puppeteer’s background is on display at the Bay Area Contemporary Jewish Museum – and it includes a satirical pre-WWII marionette of Hitler
By Rich Tenorio
'High Light' by Looky Circus at the 31st Jerusalem Puppet Festival, August 14-18, 2022 (Courtesy Hadar Berel)
August 3, 2022, 3:21 pm
Imaginary worlds come to life at Jerusalem puppet festival
31st International Puppet Festival will showcase augmented reality, object theater and a look toward the future
By Jessica Steinberg
The original train carriage that was the theater space of the new Karon Theater in Jerusalem's Liberty Bell Park (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
December 4, 2021, 9:26 am
Jerusalem’s Train Theater takes a short ride to a new playhouse
The Karon Theater offers more space and facilities for the city’s beloved children’s theater, with its original train carriage still on site
By Jessica Steinberg
'Missing Faces - Live' by Iris Erez is one of the performances at the upcoming Jerusalem Puppet Festival, August 22-26, 2021 (Courtesy Orly Erez Lachubesek)
August 10, 2021, 4:44 pm
No strings attached: Puppet fest may offer free rapid COVID testing at entrance
Annual Jerusalem event at Liberty Bell Park will celebrate new cultural complex, and festival’s 30th year
By Jessica Steinberg
'A Sick Day for Morris McGee,' one of the performances coming to Israel for the annual Puppet Theater festival, August 18-22, 2019 (Courtesy Dor Kermi)
July 31, 2019, 1:14 am
Puppets to descend upon Jerusalem for annual festival
Serious and silly, the marionettes and their masters will perform for four days in August
By Jessica Steinberg
The cast of AACI's production of the musical Avenue Q (Photo credit: Hanan Schoffman)
December 1, 2016, 7:10 pm
Jerusalem AACI theater stages raunchy puppet show
Cast of coming-of-age story ‘Avenue Q’ hopes to challenge audiences with such songs as ‘Everyone’s a Little Bit Racist’
By Emily Rose
The Koom-Koom Theater troupe
December 9, 2015, 10:29 am
An urban puppet troupe speaks everyone’s language
The nonverbal Koom-koom Theater group finds an eager audience among Jerusalem’s Jewish and Palestinian schoolchildren
By Jessica Steinberg
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