New Orleans Puppet Festival's first weekend
 

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In the opening weekend of shows at the New Orleans Puppet Festival, Skookum Heehee Tumtum Productions makes the most of the cavernous space at the Marigny Opera House. The set features twin scaffoldings more than 20 feet tall, and at one point, a young woman in the story is carried away by an eagle-like suitor to his nest in a flight spanning nearly the full-length of the deconsecrated church.? [ Read more ]

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