Chicago’s Puppet Theater Fest returns for 2022 with old favorites and the wildly new, broadening what you expect from a puppet show
CHICAGO — For all the things Chicago is famous for, let puppetry be on the list, and puppetry’s biggest event on the calendar is the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival.
The fourth edition of the Puppet Theater Fest will be back in early 2022, with some 100 performances at 15 venues around the city. The international element will sadly be mostly missing this time around due to COVID-related travel restrictions, but you can expect puppetry artists from across the country in town for the event running Jan. 20-30, 2022. The schedule includes:
"The Plastic Bag Store” by Robin Frohardt (New York): This pop-up shopping the ground floor of the Wrigley Building on Michigan Avenue will be open through the festival, hoping to inspire new perspectives on the perils of single-use plastic. An imitation grocery store, it will be
