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 City Parks Foundation is proud to announce the debut of Neverland: Peter Returns, an original marionette production beginning Tuesday, February 6, 2018 at the Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre in Central Park and running through the end of September.

City Parks Foundation is proud to announce the debut of Neverland: Peter Returns, an original marionette production beginning Tuesday, February 6, 2018 at the Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre in Central Park and running through the end of September.

The Central Academy of Drama (CAD) attended a Broadway to China Symposium in New York City and Chicago. The goal of the trip was to promote organizational innovation through multilateral exchanges and cooperation with the world's leading drama educational and professional theater institutions. The Central Academy of Drama is known as one of the best drama and stage arts institutions in China, training students for placement in arts organizations across the globe. It is their belief that to train students for international placement, the faculty must be knowledgeable of state of the art practices across the map.

City Parks Foundation has announced the return of The Three Bears Holiday Bash, an original marionette production beginning Today, November 11, 2017 at the Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre in Central Park and running through the end of December.

City Parks Foundation has announced the return of The Three Bears Holiday Bash, an original marionette production beginning Saturday, November 11, 2017 at the Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre in Central Park and running through the end of December.

City Parks Foundation is pleased to announce the return of Hansel and Gretel's Halloween Adventure to the Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre in Central Park this Friday, October 13.

City Parks Foundation is thrilled to announce a new commissioned, site-specific work debuting at the historic Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre in Central Park this October.

City Parks Foundation has announced the return of Cinderella Samba, a CityParks PuppetMobile original production launching May 1, 2017 at Brownsville Recreation Center in Brooklyn and running through this fall.

City Parks Foundation is proud to present The Princess, The Emperor, and The Duck: Three Classic Tales of Hans Christian Andersen at Central Park's historic Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre this Spring.

City Parks Foundation is thrilled to announce a new commissioned, site-specific work debuting at the historic Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre in Central Park this October. Oltra mar, directed, choreographed, and designed by Luca Veggetti, fuses dance with the art of puppetry. The work was inspired by and is set to the music of celebrated Finnish composer, Kaija Saariaho.

City Parks Foundation is thrilled to announce a new commissioned, site-specific work debuting at the historic Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre in Central Park this October. Oltra mar, directed, choreographed, and designed by Luca Veggetti, fuses dance with the art of puppetry. The work was inspired by and is set to the music of celebrated Finnish composer, Kaija Saariaho.

The holiday season is here at last, and in just weeks, the world will be spreading yuletide cheer by decking the halls, wrapping the gifts and sipping the eggnog. There are plenty of ways to join in the spirit, because for theatre fans, Broadway is everywhere this season... and BroadwayWorld has a complete guide of where to find it!

City Parks Foundation presents Three - an adventurous mash-up of the classic fairy tales 'The Three Little Pigs,' 'Three Billy Goats Gruff,' and 'The Three Bears,' at the Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre in Central Park.

City Parks Foundation presents Three - an adventurous mash-up of the classic fairy tales 'The Three Little Pigs,' 'Three Billy Goats Gruff,' and 'The Three Bears,' at the Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre in Central Park.

Eloquence without the elegance is how I'd describe Michael Stuhlbarg's scruffy, hyperactive and somewhat nerdy take on the title role in director Oskar Eustis' amusing hodgepodge of a production of Hamlet. Though perfectly placid for the first several minutes of his performance, silently contemplating his father's death and his uncle's marriage to his newly widowed mother at a downstage eternal flame that perpetually flickers its symbolism throughout the evening, he's soon wildly wringing his hands with nervous excitement, flailing his arms about in range and stomping his feet to the floor like the kind of actor he'll later be warning his players not to be. In fact, it's not until the prince starts feigning madness that he begins resembling a grown-up. It's not an interpretation that will tug at your soul, but it'll damn well get your attention without taxing your brain.

The Public Theater will begin performances of 'Hamlet', the first production of the 2008 Shakespeare in the Park summer season, on Tuesday, May 27.