You expect to laugh during a show about a guy who makes a tennis ball speak – and a monkey curse. But you don’t anticipate to well up. You’ll do both during “Jay Johnson: The Two and Only! ” – an ...

It’s impossible to recall precisely when ventriloquism fell off the radar screen. Some would say the art has faced an uphill battle ever since 1962, when a particularly chilling “Twilight Zone” ...

Vent Haven Museum is all about dummies – puppets, not people with questionable judgment. This museum houses 1,012 ventriloquial figures, more commonly referred to as dummies, from the 19th through ...

Attics are made to hide your junk, like the winter coats that you never need in SoFlo — or your dummies, and we mean puppets, not idiot drivers on I-95. The puppets of “The Dummy’s Attic” come alive ...

We often think of puppets at work, slinging wisecracks (“And they say I’m the dummy!”) and speaking in a high-register chirp. Jay Johnson, whose new Broadway show, The Two and Only!, is playing at the ...

Your company has announced drastic cutbacks and scheduled a staff meeting to talk about the consequences. On the podium, seated ne to a vice president, is the guest speaker, a midget-sized stranger ...

(WSVN) - A South Florida family has a very unique collection. Some will find it cool — and others a bit creepy. Kevin Ozebek shines the 7 Spotlight on their passion for puppets. When you first walk ...

Ventriloquist comedian Jeff Dunham sued a Maryland puppet maker claiming the man is improperly reproducing the entertainer’s popular and trademarked “Walter” dummy. Dunham, who has had a show on ...

They may not have the creepy, vaguely human faces of ventriloquist dummies, but sock puppets are capable of plenty of mayhem in Patrick Smith‘s short film Puppet. Just don’t let them get their soft, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Lizzie has been tucked in a wooden trunk bearing her name and stowed inside Linda Mae Glader’s closet for more than 40 years. But the dummy — a handcrafted ...

When Seton Hill University professor Lisa Leibering’s theater design students created puppets for a local middle school production of “Finding Nemo Jr.,” they never expected their work would travel ...

UNION COUNTY - Comments continue to roll in but no resolution has been announced with the investigation into an alleged racist dummy found by Plainfield basketball players over the weekend in the ...