Center For Puppetry Arts
Call:
(404) 873-3391
or visit
www.puppet.org
Entertainment comes with strings attached at this theater, museum, and education center that features both wildly creative puppet plays for mature audiences and kid-lit adaptations that deliver fun for all ages.
Audio Described “Stellaluna”
Sunday April 28, 2024 01:00 PM EDT
Center For Puppetry Arts
Cost: $22-$27
Guests with visual impairment or needing additional audio support will enjoy a performance accompanied by live verbal commentary describing essential visuals in puppets, costumes, sets, and staging.
Accidentally dropped by her mother, the helpless baby fruit bat, Stellaluna, falls into a nest of b...
[click here for more]
USER SUBMITTED
The Surreal Puppetry of Jan Švankmajer
Friday March 29, 2024 07:00 PM EDT
Center For Puppetry Arts
Cost: $5-$10
Films and Conversations Series
Experience the Surrealism of Czech filmmaker and animator, Jan Švankmajer
This program of short films will present the work of the surreal Czech filmmaker Jan Švankmajer, an animator who has long engaged with the history of puppetry—from Punch and Judy to folk tradit... [click here for more]
USER SUBMITTED
Stellaluna
Tuesday March 26, 2024 10:00 AM EDT
Center For Puppetry Arts
Cost: $16-$21
Accidentally dropped by her mother, the helpless baby fruit bat, Stellaluna, falls into a nest of bird fledglings. The baby birds graciously accept her as one of the family — as long as she acts like a bird and doesn’t confuse her adoptive siblings. Stellaluna does her best, but she still likes to f...
[click here for more]
ASL Stellaluna
Tuesday March 26, 2024 10:00 AM EDT
Center For Puppetry Arts
Cost: $22-$23
Guests who are deaf or hard of hearing will enjoy a performance accompanied by live American Sign Language interpretation. This organized visual language (“ASL”) will be used in tandem with spoken dialogue.
Accidentally dropped by her mother, the helpless baby fruit bat, Stellaluna, falls into a n...
[click here for more]
USER SUBMITTED
Sensory Friendly Sunday: “The Emperor’s New Clothes”
Sunday March 17, 2024 01:00 PM EDT
Center For Puppetry Arts
Cost: $22
Guests with sensory sensitivities (such as Autism Spectrum Disorder) and other developmental differences are invited to enjoy the Center for Puppetry Arts in a fun, comfortable, and welcoming environment! It’s the Emperor himself in Grey Seal Puppets’ clever adaptation of “The Emperor’s New Clothes....
[click here for more]
USER SUBMITTED
“The Emperor’s New Clothes”
Tuesday March 12, 2024 10:00 AM EDT
Center For Puppetry Arts
Cost: $22
It’s the Emperor himself in Grey Seal Puppets’ clever adaptation of “The Emperor’s New Clothes.” Not only is this Emperor big, fat, and pink, he just happens to be a pig. The Hans Christian Andersen story takes on a whole new dimension as this classic is transformed into a fable.
Tuesday through S...
[click here for more]
The Valentine’s Puckin’ Fuppet Show
Saturday February 24, 2024 10:00 PM EST
Center For Puppetry Arts
Cost: $15-$25
Get your V card punched at our Valentine’s variety show! Featuring Special Guest Artist: Vanessa Valliere!
Join us for love-themed adult puppetry, candy thrown at your face, and more!
The Puckin’ Fuppet Show is Atlanta’s premiere competitive Puppet Slam with CASH prize Audience Choice Awards for 1... [click here for more]
USER SUBMITTED
Packrat
Wednesday February 21, 2024 07:30 PM EST
Center For Puppetry Arts
Cost: $22
Set deep in the Sagebrush Desert, Packrat is a visually stunning puppet-forward play that contemplates humanity’s relationship with the natural world. Puppetry, projections, and an original score elegantly come together to create many layers of meaning and emotions. At the center of the action is Bu...
[click here for more]
Ruth and the Green Book
Wednesday January 31, 2024 10:30 AM EST
Center For Puppetry Arts
Cost: $22
The Center for Puppetry Arts is proud to partner with the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library & Museum to highlight the history of the Green Book and the resilience of African Americans during the Jim Crow era.
Eight-year-old Ruth and her family are traveling from Chicago to Alabama in the 1950s. Th...
[click here for more]
Labzik Screening with Jake Krakovsky and Dr. Miriam
Saturday January 20, 2024 08:00 PM EST
Center For Puppetry Arts
Cost: $5-$10
Films and Conversations Series
Directed, adapted, and puppeteered by Jake Krakovsky, Labzik features narration adapted from Dr. Miriam Udel’s new English translation and Yiddish dialogue from Chaver Paver’s original text.
Labzik: Tales of a Clever Pup follows the (mis)adventures of a clever mutt... [click here for more]
USER SUBMITTED
“Human”
Wednesday January 17, 2024 10:00 AM EST
Center For Puppetry Arts
Cost: $22-$27
Having discovered a sunken submarine, a young seahorse sets off the find his wise octopus teacher and a primordial African Mermaid to learn more about the creatures once called HUMAN beings. He learns they ultimately destroyed themselves by separating from their own hearts. He comes up with a grand ...
[click here for more]
Hours
Monday: Closed
Tuesday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Wednesday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Thursday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Friday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Saturday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Sunday: 12:00 – 5:00 PM