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Venue:	Puppet Showplace Theater
Dates:	Sat from 8/22/15 - 8/22/15
Hours:	Saturday 8/22/15 10:30am and 1pm
Ages:	Toddlers, Kids
In/Outdoor:	Indoor
Cost:	$ see below
Category:	Theater & Shows

Summer Puppet Adventures : Get ready to blast off, set sail, and soar through summer with our annual adventure series! Original music and brightly-colored characters will delight our youngest audience members (and their grown ups!)

Clowns come in all shapes and sizes, but everything about them is larger-than-life.

Join Dusty and his friends Tarta, Zany and Pierrot for this fun, interactive variety show featuring circus-inspired singing, dancing, storytelling, lion-taming, and more.

Original music and brightly-colored characters will delight our youngest audience members (and their grown ups!)

Recommended for everyone ages 3 to 6.

Brad Shur is a versatile puppeteer who has created and performed
characters made of everything from pixels to papier mache.

As the
Resident Artist at Puppet Showplace Theater he performs regularly and
teaches puppetry classes to students of all ages, Pre-K to adult.

As
protégé of master puppeteer Paul Vincent Davis, Brad trained extensively
in glove puppetry and currently performs two of Davis’ classic shows at
venues across New England.

Brad’s original works include “Robin Hood,”
'The Carrot Salesman,' 'Dr. Doohickey and the Monster Machine,' 'Tall Tales!

' and 'The Magic Soup and Other Stories,' featured at the
Puppeteers of America National Festival 2013.

Prior to becoming the
Resident Artist at Puppet Showplace, Brad toured the country as a
performer with Big Nazo (Rhode Island), Wood & Strings Theatre
(Tennessee) and The PuppeTree (Vermont).

As a builder Brad has designed
and fabricated puppets for American Idol, Dollywood, Avenue Q, and the
U.S.S.

Constitution Museum.

He is a graduate of the Rhode Island School
of Design.

Master puppeteer Paul Vincent Davis is widely
recognized as one of America's foremost glove puppeteers.

For over 30
years he served as Artist in Residence at Puppet Showplace Theater where
he and founder Mary Churchill worked tirelessly to establish a home for
puppetry in New England.

Paul created over a dozen full-length puppetry
productions and received five prestigious UNIMA Citations of Excellence
for his work.

Paul was also honored with the President's Award for
Lifetime Achievement by the Puppeteers of America.

Now retired from
performing, Davis remains active as a teacher and mentor in the New
England puppetry community.

Paul currently resides in Brookline Village,
where he recently celebrated Puppet Showplace Theater's 40th
anniversary and his own 80th birthday.

COST

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$12 General Admission / $8 Members

WEBSITE

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web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/920165

LOCATION

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32 Station Street, Brookline, MA map
Phone: 617-731-6400

Take the Green D line of the T to the Brookline Village stop - we're right across the street! Metered parking also available.
http://www.puppetshowplace.org/directions/