Theatreworks, Katy Williams Designs and JParker Arts collaborate on "The Mitten," a new shadow puppet production based on a Ukrainian folktale. It opens Friday and runs through Feb. 28.

largest: 74 by 29cm, 29 1/4 by 11 1/2 in.; smallest: 47 by 28cm, 18 1/2 by 11in ...

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Naga, a mythical serpent (late 1700s–early 1800s), West Java (all images © The Trustees of the British Museum, courtesy the British Museum) For centuries, shadow ...

Hamid Rahmanian is waging a war — one he started about 16 years ago. His army: hundreds of shadow puppets, many brandishing shadow spears, bows and arrows, swords. His battle strategy is plucked from ...