Center For Puppetry Arts

Call: (404) 873-3391 or visit www.puppet.org
Entertainment comes with strings attached at this theater, museum, and education center that features both wildly creative puppet plays for mature audiences and kid-lit adaptations that deliver fun for all ages.

Tuesday March 26, 2024 10:00 AM EDT
Center For Puppetry Arts Cost: $16-$21
Accidentally dropped by her mother, the helpless baby fruit bat, Stellaluna, falls into a nest of bird fledglings. The baby birds graciously accept her as one of the family — as long as she acts like a bird and doesn’t confuse her adoptive siblings. Stellaluna does her best, but she still likes to f... [click here for more]

Tuesday March 26, 2024 10:00 AM EDT
Center For Puppetry Arts Cost: $22-$23
Guests who are deaf or hard of hearing will enjoy a performance accompanied by live American Sign Language interpretation. This organized visual language (“ASL”) will be used in tandem with spoken dialogue. Accidentally dropped by her mother, the helpless baby fruit bat, Stellaluna, falls into a n... [click here for more]

Friday March 29, 2024 07:00 PM EDT
Films and Conversations Series

Experience the Surrealism of Czech filmmaker and animator, Jan Švankmajer

This program of short films will present the work of the surreal Czech filmmaker Jan Švankmajer, an animator who has long engaged with the history of puppetry—from Punch and Judy to folk tradit... [click here for more]

Sunday March 17, 2024 01:00 PM EDT
Guests with sensory sensitivities (such as Autism Spectrum Disorder) and other developmental differences are invited to enjoy the Center for Puppetry Arts in a fun, comfortable, and welcoming environment! It’s the Emperor himself in Grey Seal Puppets’ clever adaptation of “The Emperor’s New Clothes.... [click here for more]

Tuesday March 12, 2024 10:00 AM EDT
It’s the Emperor himself in Grey Seal Puppets’ clever adaptation of “The Emperor’s New Clothes.” Not only is this Emperor big, fat, and pink, he just happens to be a pig. The Hans Christian Andersen story takes on a whole new dimension as this classic is transformed into a fable. Tuesday through S... [click here for more]

Saturday February 24, 2024 10:00 PM EST
Center For Puppetry Arts Cost: $15-$25
Get your V card punched at our Valentine’s variety show! Featuring Special Guest Artist: Vanessa Valliere!

Join us for love-themed adult puppetry, candy thrown at your face, and more!

The Puckin’ Fuppet Show is Atlanta’s premiere competitive Puppet Slam with CASH prize Audience Choice Awards for 1... [click here for more]

Wednesday February 21, 2024 07:30 PM EST
Set deep in the Sagebrush Desert, Packrat is a visually stunning puppet-forward play that contemplates humanity’s relationship with the natural world. Puppetry, projections, and an original score elegantly come together to create many layers of meaning and emotions. At the center of the action is Bu... [click here for more]

Wednesday January 31, 2024 10:30 AM EST
The Center for Puppetry Arts is proud to partner with the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library & Museum to highlight the history of the Green Book and the resilience of African Americans during the Jim Crow era. Eight-year-old Ruth and her family are traveling from Chicago to Alabama in the 1950s. Th... [click here for more]

Saturday January 20, 2024 08:00 PM EST
Films and Conversations Series

Directed, adapted, and puppeteered by Jake Krakovsky, Labzik features narration adapted from Dr. Miriam Udel’s new English translation and Yiddish dialogue from Chaver Paver’s original text.

Labzik: Tales of a Clever Pup follows the (mis)adventures of a clever mutt... [click here for more]

Wednesday January 17, 2024 10:00 AM EST
Center For Puppetry Arts Cost: $22-$27
Having discovered a sunken submarine, a young seahorse sets off the find his wise octopus teacher and a primordial African Mermaid to learn more about the creatures once called HUMAN beings. He learns they ultimately destroyed themselves by separating from their own hearts. He comes up with a grand ... [click here for more]

Tuesday December 26, 2023 02:00 PM EST
Center For Puppetry Arts Cost: $21 general; $26 VIP
Rudolph soars back into town with this faithful adaptation of the beloved 1964 stop-motion animated special. Narrated by the delightful Sam the Snowman™, this celebrated holiday classic follows Rudolph and Hermey the Elf™, two misfits on the run. Along with their traveling companion Yukon Cornelius™... [click here for more]

Tuesday December 26, 2023 12:00 PM EST
Center For Puppetry Arts Cost: $21 general; $26 VIP
Rudolph soars back into town with this faithful adaptation of the beloved 1964 stop-motion animated special. Narrated by the delightful Sam the Snowman™, this celebrated holiday classic follows Rudolph and Hermey the Elf™, two misfits on the run. Along with their traveling companion Yukon Cornelius™... [click here for more]

Tuesday December 26, 2023 10:00 AM EST
Center For Puppetry Arts Cost: $21 general; $26 VIP
Rudolph soars back into town with this faithful adaptation of the beloved 1964 stop-motion animated special. Narrated by the delightful Sam the Snowman™, this celebrated holiday classic follows Rudolph and Hermey the Elf™, two misfits on the run. Along with their traveling companion Yukon Cornelius™... [click here for more]
1404 Spring St. N.W.
Atlanta, GA 30309
(404) 873-3391
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Hours

Monday: Closed
Tuesday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Wednesday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Thursday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Friday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Saturday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Sunday: 12:00 – 5:00 PM

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