Dallas Puppet Theater

Specialties

The Dallas Puppet Theater is a non-​profit organization dedicated to promoting and advancing the performing, visual, and creative art of puppetry in the Dallas/​Fort Worth area through an ongoing series of performances, workshops, outreach programs, and collaborations with other organizations.

The Dallas Puppet Theater produces an ongoing series of family performances, performing an average of fifty weeks per year with a collection of stories based on historical events, operas, original stories, and lighthearted adaptations of classic children’s literature.

Guest artists are also an important part of the Dallas Puppet Theater’s programming, offering Metroplex audiences a once-​in-​a-​lifetime opportunity to see some of the brightest stars in the puppetry universe.

Join us for the fun and find out just why the Dallas Puppet Theater is uniquely qualified to bring life to ideas in order to teach and entertain.

History

Established in 1983.

For almost 30 years, the Dallas Puppet Theater has worked with the Dallas Opera, the Symphony Association, the Dallas Morning News, the Dallas Public Library, the Dallas Theater Center, Garland Summer Musicals, Casa Mañana, Theater Under the Stars, Theatre Three, WaterTower Theater, Theatre Arlington, the Dallas Zoo, Texas libraries and organizations across the country to bring puppetry to an ever-​widening audience.

The Dallas Puppet Theater offers materials, technical, and historical research to puppeteers and puppet enthusiasts. Puppet-​making workshops for children as well as workshops for educators and therapists make puppetry accessible and practical in a variety of uses.

The Dallas Puppet Theater performs nationally and internationally, bringing its unique brand of puppetry, humor and theater to puppetry and children’s theater festivals throughout the United States and the world including the former Soviet Union, Lithuania and the Czech Republic.