Genre: Puppetry | Fine Arts Building

Plexus Polaire Presents Dracula: Lucy’s Dream Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival 2025

January 15 – 19

From the makers of Moby Dick and Chambre Noire, Plexus Polaire returns flaunting its mastery of the form and serving up large-scale spectacle, human size bunraku puppets, hypnotic video projection and their signature style of imbuing the puppet with storytelling power.

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The Puppet Hub Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival 2025

Puppetry

January 17 – 26

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Take a break between the many Puppet Hub shows and exhibits in this puppet-inspired pop-up cafe inside the Fine Arts Building. Meet fellow puppetry enthusiasts for coffee, tea, winter soups and baked treats.

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Baxter Theatre & Handspring Puppet Co. Life and Times of Michael K Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival 2025

Puppetry

January 22 – 26

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With puppets by Handspring Puppet Company, known for building the War Horse and Little Amal, Cape Town’s Baxter Theatre brings us a new level of exquisite bunraku-style puppet theater.

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A work in development by Vanessa Valliere Look! Look! Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival 2025

Solo Performance

January 23 – 25

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Created and performed by clown, nerd cheerleader, and Chicago favorite Vanessa Valliere with support from longtime collaborator Lindsey Noel Whiting, Look! Look! is a must-see celebration of the gross and beautiful, the sweet and creepy, the euphemistic and earnest and, most importantly, the weirdos. Performances of Look! Look! will take place in the Fine Arts Building's Little Studio, suite 732.

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