We are happy to announce that the Summer/Fall 2025 Theater Apprenticeships are now accepting applications. There are 3 apprenticeships offered this year:

1. A 5 week session from July 1-August 5
2. A 4.5-week session from August 5-September 5
3. A 2 week session from September 23-October 7.

Please click the relevant links for more information about how to apply! Note: These are Theater apprenticeships. Please stay tuned for information about Printshop Apprenticeships.

Questions about the theater apprenticeships? contact the apprentice coordinator at [email protected]

For questions about printshop apprenticeships, contact [email protected]

 

                                        Photo credit: Garrett MacLean

JUNE

MUSEUM OPENING – an afternoon of music and puppet shows to celebrate the opening of the B&P Museum for the summer
Sunday, June 1st at 2 p.m. at the B&P Museum

FRIDAY NIGHT PERFORMANCES
Fridays, June 6th-June 27th at 7 p.m. in the Paper Maché Cathedral
Show Title TBA

JULY

FRIDAY NIGHT PERFORMANCES
July 4th-August 29th at 7 p.m. in the Paper Maché Cathedral
Show Title TBA

SUNDAY PERFORMANCES
July 13th-August 31st in the Circus Field
2 p.m. Sideshows
3 p.m. Circus followed by Pageant 

AUGUST

FRIDAY NIGHT PERFORMANCES
July 4th-August 29th at 7 p.m. in the Paper Maché Cathedral
Show Title TBA

SUNDAY PERFORMANCES
July 13th-August 31st in the Circus Field
2 p.m. Sideshows
3 p.m. Circus followed by Pageant 

 

**Dogs are discouraged, though well behaved dogs on leash are allowed. If you bring your dog, PLEASE SIT IN THE BACK of the audience, AT THE TOP OF THE AMPHITHEATER as far away as possible from the brass band and bring plenty of water (there is none onsite).

FALL SCHEDULE

POLITICAL LEAF PEEPING – our last event of the season with music and puppet shows
Sunday, October 5th 2p.m.

Please click here for Tickets.

A bit about our summer circus: This summer Bread & Puppet will once again proudly present our traditional summer Circus, a brand-new show in the tradition of the iconic Bread & Puppet circuses that began at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont in 1970. As usual, the show will draw on traditional circus tropes as well as beloved Bread & Puppet characters and iconography to draw attention to the urgent issues of the day. Stilt dancers, paper maché beasts of all sizes and a riotous brass band make a raucous, colorful spectacle of protest and celebration.

The show, says Schumann, is “in response to our totally unresurrected capitalist situation…our culture’s unwillingness to recognize Mother Earth’s revolt against our civilization. Since we earthlings do not live up to our earthling obligations, we need resurrection circuses to yell against our own stupidity.”

After the show we will serve our famous sourdough rye bread with aioli, and Bread & Puppet’s “Cheap Art” – books, posters, postcards, pamphlets and banners from the Bread & Puppet Press – will be for sale at the Circus Field Store as well as in the Bread & Puppet Museum, right across Rt. 122. 

We hope to see you this summer!

Sincerely,

The Bread & Puppet Theater

Bread & Puppet welcomes the public to our Annual Political Leaf Peeping, where we will celebrate the glorious fall landscape and the completion of another summer season with an afternoon of music, puppet shows and potato pancakes. The event will take place Sunday, October 6th at the Bread & Puppet farm in Glover, VT.

Kicking off at 2 pm, our Political Leaf Peeping will include Sacred Harp singing and the opening of the autumnal landscape for political viewing. Bread and Puppeteers of the past and present will regale you with cantastorias, songs and puppet shows performed around the property. This will be accompanied by a performance of our brand new show, Gray Lady Cantata #9, directed by Peter Schumann. The Museum of Anti-Modern Art will also be open for viewing of Schumann’s latest painting series. The afternoon will conclude with the serving of the traditional political leaf peeper’s dinner: potato pancakes with fresh applesauce. 

About Gray Lady Cantata #9: In the late 60’s through the mid 1970’s, Peter Schumann created a series of shows in response to the Vietnam war called “The Gray Lady Cantatas“. The shows featured the iconic gray lady puppets moving through vignettes both dreamlike and brutal. This new version, Gray Lady Cantata #9, directed by Peter Schumann, uses texts from Palestinians living through the war in Gaza, and, like the older versions of the show, is a meditation on grief, war, and resistance.

The Bread & Puppet Museum—showcasing one of the largest collections of giant puppets in the world—and the Museum Store—featuring a selection of new and old posters, books, and banners from the Bread & Puppet Press—will be open throughout the afternoon. 

Tickets are $10 each. Each ticket provides access to all performances happening during the day. We ask that you purchase tickets ahead of time. However, it’s central to our philosophy that our performances are as accessible as possible and no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Admission by cash donation for kids 6 and under. You can purchase tickets on our website here. If online tickets sell out, tickets will still be available at the door, space allowing.

 

https://www.cctv.org/watch-tv/series/bread-and-puppet-theatre

See our Current Exhibits 

Keep a look out for Upcoming Exhibits

Volunteer in the Printshop:

Every Wednesday and Friday 3-5 pm in the Bread and Puppet Printshop

Want to give us a hand in the Printshop? Here is the form to select days you’d like to attend in May. Please note that Volunteer session times have officially changed to 3pm-5pm Wednesdays and Fridays. On Friday’s we paint posters and on Wednesday we do miscellaneous Printshop projects from sewing, ironing and painting banners to printing new prints on fabric and paper.

No Experience Necessary

Every Wednesday and Friday 3-5 pm in the Bread and Puppet Printshop

Want to give us a hand in the Printshop? Here is the form to select days you’d like to attend in September. On Friday’s we paint posters and on Wednesday we do miscellaneous Printshop projects from sewing, ironing and painting banners to printing new prints on fabric and paper.

For More information email [email protected]

The show opens Friday August 25th and runs through Sunday October 8th. Haven is open Friday thru Sunday or Mon-Thurs by chance or by appt.