Plenty to do at The Library to combat summer boredom

The Springfield-Greene County Library has the answer to summer boredom. The Summer Reading Program, Unearth a Story, is in ...
The Stranger

Shadow Work

Manual Cinema’s otherworldly shadow-puppet shows are largely inspired by phantasmagorias from the 1700s. Credit: Katie Doyle Centuries before haunted house attractions or horror films, audiences ...
The New York Times

Larry Reed, Master of Shadow Puppetry, Dies at 81

Entranced by traditional Balinese puppet theater, he developed a modern, multicultural version that he performed around the world. “In Xanadu” (1993), one of Larry Reed’s modern shadow puppet ...