Make way, ghosts of holiday shows past: it’s a new year ... Not bad for the middle of a Chicago winter. The 7th Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival runs Jan. 15-26 at various venues ...

Rearranged for moviegoers as a formula farce, the show still seems artificial but the artifice somehow seems right—in a puppet show, who needs reality? Director Norman Jewison deserves three ...

The show featured a cast of abstract puppets including a lizard-like character ... was made from his mother's old, green winter coat. The fabric made his face very soft and maluable which Ron ...