copyright the Chronicle August 30, 2017 by Joseph Gresser GLOVER — Peter Gelb is the director of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. When his company wants to put on a new production, he thumbs through a list of classic operas to find one it has not ... More »
copyright the Chronicle June 10, 2015 by Nathalie Gagnon-Joseph GLOVER — Visitors jammed the lanes around the Bread and Puppet Theater’s grounds here with their cars on Sunday when they came for the museum’s open house. The theater celebrated the fortieth an... More »
copyright the Chronicle September 10, 2014 by Joseph Gresser A Curious Harvest: The Practical Art of Cooking Everything, by Maximus Thaler and Dayna Safferstein; published by Quarry Books, Beverly, Massachusetts, 2014; 160 pages, softbound, $24.99. There is ha... More »
copyright the Chronicle August 13, 2014 by David Dudley GLOVER — Before the Bread and Puppet Theater’s Friday night performance of Fire, Genevieve Yeuillaz rakes the dirt floor theater. Though the audience rarely acknowledges her effort, she carefully makes li... More »
A Lifetime of Vermont People, with photographs and text by Peter Miller; 208 pages in hardback; published by Silver Print Press; $49.95. Reviewed by Chris Braithwaite Any Northeast Kingdom resident who picks up Peter Miller’s extraordinarily handsome new book ... More »
by Natalie Hormilla GLOVER — “The assessment is more important for the participants than for me.” This is what Peter Schumann answers when asked what he thinks of Bread and Puppet Theater turning half a century old this summer. Mr. Schumann has been the artist... More »
American Puppet Modernism: Essays on the Material World in Performance, by John Bell. Published by Palgrave MacMillan, New York, 2013; 280 pages, softbound, $28.00. Reviewed by Joseph Gresser copyright the Chronicle 1-29-2013 When most people think of puppets... More »