Huang Ruo and Basil Twist’s new choral-theater piece at St. Ann’s Warehouse borrows from traditional Chinese tales. By Laura Collins-Hughes Fuzzy puppet sheep. A light cutting through the haze.

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Basil Twist is a visionary, third-generation puppeteer whose work has reshaped contemporary puppetry Basil Twist is a visionary, third-generation puppeteer whose work has reshaped contemporary ...

The puppeteer Basil Twist is a magician of musical imagery. In his staging of “Rite,” anthropomorphic figures are replaced by smoke rings, silken fabrics, lengths of rope, crumpled paper, washes of ...

Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang’s “The Monkey King,” based on “Journey to the West,” brings an old superhero to the opera stage. By Joshua Barone Huang Ruo’s “The Monkey King” at San Francisco Opera ...

When interviewing a puppeteer in the presence of his creation, eye contact can be perplexing. Basil Twist, the acclaimed puppet artist whose designs span Broadway, opera and cabaret stages, was ...