Every winter, Chicago becomes the epicenter of the puppet theater world. Here are some titles and companies not to miss.

On today's show the director of a comedy improv show for adults, but with puppets! Then, one of the top manga artists from ...

Taking the form of an imaginary train ride, the performance will feature meticulously-crafted marionettes representing flora ...

Leave your thoughts on James Cunningham's Top 10 Films of 2025 below in the comments section. Readers seeking to support this ...

Jordan Peele’s 2017 movie Get Out changed a lot of things. Chief among them was inventing — certainly unwittingly, and perhaps unfairly — a new and extremely virulent strain of horror. Peele’s perfect ...

F. W. Murnau’s 1922 horror classic, Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, is an atypical Dracula adaptation. The departures from Bram Stoker’s epistolary novel were very much intentional to skirt around ...

A neo-noir and folk-horror TV series dubbed Kazakh Scary Tales found its place among eager fans at festivals after being considered too scary and gory for streaming audiences. The show by Kazakh ...

In the words of Vince Guaraldi’s choristers, Christmas time is here! While things naturally slow down during this holiday week, there are still free events to take advantage of before and after the ...

The 8th Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival is fast approaching, so get set for 12 straight days of incredible stories told by puppet artists and companies from around the world playing all ...

A $3 billion redemption crisis in eastern China is reviving concerns about the loosely-regulated shadow-banking industry as the nation’s prolonged property slump risks spilling over into the financial ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Jason Riley and Dan Henninger. Remember when the University of California kicked off a trend by eliminating the SAT test as an ...

From his earliest gaming memories playing Spyro 2 on the PlayStation, to being obsessed with the swing-out animations in Marvel's Spider-Man, Cameron has always been, and continues to be, in love with ...