For 13 years, the Street Creature Puppet Collective has been meeting primarily for one purpose: making puppets.

Theater artist Jacky Kelsey was driving back from their grandmother’s farm when five white owls appeared out of nowhere and flew over the car. It was a “spooky, alien site,” they said. Throughout ...

When teachers noticed that children in Oakland preschool and kindergarten classrooms were not engaging in imaginative play or interacting with each other as much after the pandemic, staff at ...

The Skirball Cultural Center has long been a place to encounter all sorts of ebullient and splendid sights — an exhibit celebrating the legendary Muppet maven Jim Henson was on view a few years back— ...