Good scares and great storytelling know no season. The Center for Puppetry Arts’ remount of The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe, running through April 4, is a macabre delight. Developed by puppeteer Bobby Box, who died in 2020, the one-act show stages a number of Poe’s most famous short works, including The Raven, The Tell-Tale…
In this series, ArtsATL asks a member of the Atlanta arts community to share 11 things on their mind. We hope you enjoy getting to know these people better. :: With an illustrious career spanning more than two decades, Raymond Carr is an award-winning artist, puppeteer, director and founder of Ninja Puppet Productions. He was trained by…
The Ninja Puppet Shenaniganza, a new puppet variety show at the Center for Puppetry Arts, is advertised as coming from “the deeply unhealthy mind of Raymond Carr.” Whether healthy or unhealthy, we can certainly surmise from the eccentric nature of the production that the mind in question is possessed of wild, idiosyncratic creativity. Running through…
Children’s theater actors often break the fourth wall — kids love attention, after all. But it’s an uncommon children’s theater show that breaks the fourth wall and observes the pint-sized audience with suspicion. “You brought people in here?” Peter Rabbit asks his animal friends early in Into the Burrow, looking around with horror at the…
In the early 2000s, when puppeteer and filmmaker Raymond Carr was starting out as a Center for Puppetry Arts volunteer, one of his duties was to walk through the museum after hours to shut everything down. As he strolled through the building among the shadowy figures, their painted faces frozen and staring, he’d turn off…
As an artist, Raymond Carr goes by many titles — director, performer, shop owner, art director and puppeteer, among them. A prolific Atlanta presence with almost 15 years of theater, film and TV credits on his résumé, he thrives on having multiple projects. Going from warp speed to the relative quiet of a Covid-19 lockdown…
True to the track record of the organization, now in its ninth year, the recipient’s projects encompass a diverse array of art forms and performance styles. Many of this year’s artists plan to engage directly with relevant social issues including race, class and lockstep social conformity.
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