Jim Henson News

Following their St. Joan Betrayed, Mary Tuomanen and Aaron Cromie are returning to this year's Neighborhood Fringe during Fringe Arts with The Body Lautrec. This inventive theatre piece will run September 12-22 at the Caplan Studio Theater at the University of the Arts, 211 S. Broad Street. Tickets cost $25 and are available at www.fringearts.com.

Gables Grove Productions Inc. (GGP) has announced the expansion of two of their successful original Carnival Cruise Lines family entertainment experiences. Towel Animal Theater, which launched in 2012 and is now in production on 12 Carnival ships, will be produced on most of the fleet - 22 ships-- by the end of 2015. Seuss-a-Palooza Storytime and Parade, which made its premiere in February 2014 and is now on four ships, has inked a deal to be on the entire fleet - 24 ships - by the end of 2015.

Trouble Puppet Theater Company and Glass Half Full Theatre Company present the fourth annualevening of short puppet works, the Austin Puppet Incident, August 22-23 at 8pm and 10pm. The Austin Puppet Incident is a joint creation of Glass Half Full Theatre and Trouble Puppet Theater Company, presenting the work of local and national puppet artists on the Austin stage.

Go Comedy! will be positively fuzzy as the improv theatre opens Fuzzballs Comedy with Puppets, its first original comedy featuring puppets July 31, and welcomes the original written comedy Hollywood Positive for a limited two-week engagement August 14-22. Tickets to all Go Comedy! shows ($5-$18) are available now online at www.gocomedy.net and beginning at 6:00pm Wednesday - Sunday in person at the Go Comedy! box office. A complete July - August performance schedule follows this release.

NBCUniversal's TV Everywhere group, which leads the company's initiative to provide authenticated content wherever and whenever consumers want it, today announced the launch of USA Now and Syfy Now

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Cinedigm Corp. (CIDM) and Robert Halmi Jr.'s Great Point Media announced today they have entered into a multi-picture distribution and production output deal. In this multi-year deal

Single tickets for the 2014-15 season at the Center for the Performing Arts -- home of the Palladium, the Tarkington Theater, and Studio Theater -- are available for purchase on Monday, July 28. Starting at 6 a.m. Monday, single tickets are available for purchase online at www.TheCenterPresents.org. At 8 a.m. tickets are on sale at the Palladium box office (Third Avenue SW & City Center Drive). At 10 a.m. phone sales begin at 317-843-3800.

Stamford's Palace Theatre announces its 2014-2015 season, featuring artists from all genres. The season serves up an exceptional lineup of comedy, music, children's programming and holiday shows, suitable for patrons from 3 to 93.

On Monday, August 18, PBS KIDS premieres “Classic in the Jurassic,” an all-new one hour special from The Jim Henson Company's hit series DINOSAUR TRAIN.

In their first appearance at the Center, Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia brings some of Eric Carle's beloved stories to life through the magic of blacklight and fanciful puppets. "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" eats an amazing variety of foods on his path to becoming a beautiful butterfly, while high up in the sky "Little Cloud" playfully transforms into various shapes including a sheep, an airplane, a shark and more.

Overtone Industries, a celebrated force in the evolution of contemporary music theatre and experimental opera, will share the stage at REDCAT, CalArt's downtown center for contemporary arts, with two other Los Angeles-based arts organizations during the kick-off weekend of the New Original Works Festival 2014 (NOW Festival), tonight, July 24, through Saturday, July 26, 2014.

Part puppetry, part performance art, Marsian De Lellis' Object of Her Affection is a visual narrative about Object Sexuals - humans who form intimate relationships with inanimate objects. Following sold-out workshop performances, an excerpt of Object of Her Affection will be presented Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, July 30, August 1 and 2 at 8:30pm at REDCAT NOWFest (New Original Works Festival) 2014: Program 2 on a shared program with hybrid performances by Carole Kim, and d. Sabela Grimes. REDCAT is located at 631 West 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012, 213-237-2800. Tickets can be purchased at http://www.redcat.org/event/nowfest-2014-week-two.

CSz Philadelphia, producer of ComedySportz the city's longest running comedy show, is pleased to present: 'ComedySportz: Puppets vs. People' tonight, July 19 at 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. The matches will take place at the company's home base, The Playground at the Adrienne, 2030 Sansom Street and will run at 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m.

Below, check out a special behind-the-scenes featurette of the making of the recording!

Twenty-six stars of Disney's hit programming for kids and tweens perform a new interpretation of the song 'Do You Want to Build a Snowman?' from Disney's Academy Award-winning animated film 'Frozen.'

As BroadwayWorld previously reported, Disney might bring the beloved characters from 1984's THE MUPPETS TAKE MANHATTAN to the Great White Way. The New York Post's Michael Riedel reports that the Walt Disney Company, which has had the rights to the Muppets since 2004, is 'exploring the possibility' of a Muppet musical coming to one of Jujamcyn's five theaters. Over the years, the Muppets welcomed plenty of Broadway guests and featured many Broadway tunes. In honor of today's news, BroadwayWorld brings you a roundup of some of our favorites!

Part puppetry, part performance art, Marsian De Lellis' Object of Her Affection is a visual narrative about Object Sexuals - humans who form intimate relationships with inanimate objects. Full-length workshop performances will be presented Friday and Saturday, July 18 and 19 at 8pm and Sunday, July 20 at 3pm at Automata, 504 Chung King Court, Los Angeles, CA 90012, 213-819-6855. Tickets can be purchased at http://www.automata-la.org/tickets.

Jeffrey Solomon's award-winning solo play MotherSON will have its Baltimore premiere August 14 - 17, 2014, at Theatre Project, 45 W. Preston Street, Baltimore.