Media Archive

Hey Puppet Showplace Folks, it’s me again, your favorite pink monster reporting to you from Harvard Square, Cambridge! I just went to see The Snow Queen at the A.R.T., and it was EPICALLY AWESOME- a beautiful storybook adventure for the whole family filled with puppets, masks and more!

Unlike prime time fairy-tale-with-a-twist hits “Once Upon A Time” and “Grimm,” American Repertory Theater’s newest play, “The Snow Queen,” is a throwback to simpler storytelling.

Holiday Critics’ Pick at the Boston Globe: The Snow Queen – A new stage adaptation of the 19th-century fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a boy kidnapped by a beautiful but malevolent Snow Queen and the girl who undertakes an epic journey to rescue him…

“…the ART’s 2011-12 season, Paulus’s third as artistic director, shows another way in which she’s setting the company apart: The lineup features a bounty of female playwrights and directors.” – Boston.com 

“Futurity is an epistolary science fiction story that is set in rural 19th-century Virginia, set to music that is a mix of experimental pop and down-home American folk and blues. But though it sounds like a lot to pull off, the show is scrappily engaging and surprisingly cohesive.” – At Length Magazine 

“Brooklyn-based band The Lisps definitely bring a unique element to New York’s indie rock scene. Quirky performances and eclectic sounds, influenced by folk and bluegrass, lend playful charm to lyrics-driven songs that are cerebral and wistful by turns…” – Lightspeed Magazine  

WGBH critic Jared Bowen reviews Futurity: A Musical by the Lisps on the air

The design concept for “Futurity” – a show you could describe as a Civil War sci-fi musical, if you wanted to both inform and confuse readers – was picked up, piece by piece, at junk yards, yard sales and antiques shows. That’s where Eric Farber, drummer for the Lisps (the folk-roots-rock group that conceived and performs this strange new musical that’s making its world premiere at Oberon in Cambridge), started assembling his trash menagerie of Industrial Age mechanical devices that are both archaic and futuristic.