Robert Rogers Puppet Company

Hello and welcome to the world of the Robert Rogers Puppet Company, a premiere touring repertory puppet theater based in Castle Creek, New York, just a stone's throw - a long stone's throw - away from New York City. Since its beginning in 1980, it has presented a wide-ranging array of original plays throughout the United States and internationally in countries including Canada, the Czech Republic, Tunisia, Colombia, Taiwan and the Peoples Republic of China. Specializing in productions for young people, the troupe has created and utilized hundreds of beautifully crafted string, hand and rod puppets for performances in theaters, concert halls, museums, festivals and schools.

Its mission has always been to inspire creativity in children, to maintain their innate sense of wonder, to foster positive thinking and help them develop a better understanding of the world around them.

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Its repertoire of over three decades worth of productions have included adaptations of classic literature such as Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories,

Hans Christian Anderson's The Nightingale, and the eternally popular Aesop's Fables.

Original productions such as Professor Pennywhistle and the Round the World Storybook, The Bugtown Follies, and Hobnobbin' Goblins have also found their legions of fans.

Robert Rogers, also an accomplished musician and composer, has also brought his puppets to the concert stage, where they have appeared in the comedic Erroneous Encores and with orchestras in productions of Peter and the Wolf and Hansel and Gretel.

It's no exaggeration to say that from his workshop have spring a vast array of characters and stories, which have delighted audiences far and wide, from the Indianapolis Children's Museum to the Beijing Children's Palace.

After three decades and thousands of performances, the staging of each new production; the making of each new puppet, is still an exciting challenge. Every place of performance - whether it's an elementary school in Danbury, Connecticut, or the Kinski Palace in Prague - is regarded with equal importance, and every audience member, a potential new friend.

Puppetry is both a visual and a performing art, by which puppeteers can express themselves in the workshop as well as on the stage. The Robert Rogers Puppet Company does both and has long been known and respected for its beautiful craftsmanship and style of its puppets, the stories they dramatize and the extraordinary way they are "brought to life."