Peter Schumann has a hole in his sweater. On a Sunday morning in May, the founder and artistic director of Bread and Puppet Theater ushers a visitor into a house on the Glover farm where his family ...

Bread and Puppet is both an origin statement and an artistic vision. The Vermont-based troupe dates to New York’s Lower East Side in the early ’60s when German-born sculptor, dancer and baker Peter ...

Peter Schumann at the entrance to the Bread and Puppet museum Credit: Sally Pollak The visitors have thinned out at the Bread and Puppet museum-in-a-barn in Glover, and the grass amphitheater is empty ...

Last Sunday afternoon, hundreds gathered on a hillside in Glover, Vt., in anticipation of the start of Bread and Puppet Theater’s show. Below in the sun-baked field, a brass band, dressed all in white ...

There are a few of things to understand about Bread & Puppet Theater, the legendary Vermont-based company performing in Chicago next week as part of Columbia College’s annual Story Week Festival of ...