Peter Schumann has a hole in his sweater. On a Sunday morning in May, the founder and artistic director of Bread and Puppet Theater ushers a visitor into a house on the Glover farm where his family ...

Peter Schumann at the entrance to the Bread and Puppet museum Credit: Sally Pollak The visitors have thinned out at the Bread and Puppet museum-in-a-barn in Glover, and the grass amphitheater is empty ...

Art nourishes people’s souls. German-born artist and director Peter Schumann takes that objective one step further by nourishing people’s bodies, as well. In 1962, Schumann started an experimental ...

Bread and Puppet Theater has been a familiar presence at political demonstrations since the anti-war protests of the 1960s. Its giant puppets and raucous brass band also marched against wars in ...

Bread and Puppet is both an origin statement and an artistic vision. The Vermont-based troupe dates to New York’s Lower East Side in the early ’60s when German-born sculptor, dancer and baker Peter ...