On the B&P Farm

Since 1975, Bread & Puppet Theater has been performing circuses and pageants in the rolling fields, pine forest, and gravel pit amphitheater at our homebase at 753 Heights Rd. Glover, VT. The former dairy farm features multiple performance venues including our Paper Maché Cathedral and the newly opened Museum of Anti-Modern Art at 514 Heights Rd (one driveway West of B&P on Rt. 122). Performances run June through October.

SUMMER 2026 SCHEDULE

FRIDAY NIGHT SHOW: MORALITY DEMONOLOGY

Fridays, June-August at 7pm

Puppet show! Puppet show! Bread & Puppet will present an indoor performance each Friday this summer in the Paper Maché Cathedral. The show will premiere in June and continue to evolve over the course of the summer. This year’s Friday Night Show: Morality Demonology.

Puppeteers are in a state of high alert. The commanders-in-chief of reality are not only assassinating truth but have declared war on the innocent everything of the world. Morality demons claim divine origin, govern the population with unidentified power, and oppress shamelessly and unaccountably with history-honored illegality. Under and oversized puppets now battle the insufferable demons and the tricks of political mayhem. The world, unaware of its upside-down situation, must be confronted!

After the show Bread & Puppet will serve its 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.

Please note that dogs are not permitted in the Paper Maché Cathedral.

Tickets: $15, no one turned away for lack of funds. Admission by donation upon arrival for kids 12 and under.

Want to be in the show? Join is in the Cathedral each Friday at 4pm for our volunteer rehearsal.

        

No show Friday, July 3 and Friday, August 28.

SUMMER CIRCUS & PAGEANT

Sundays, July 19-August 30 at 3pm

The one and only Bread & Puppet Circus and Pageant is back! Every Sunday from July 19 to August 31 at 3pm, join us in the circus field for a brand new circus crafted for this exact moment. Around 4:30pm a pageant will commence on the pageant field. As always, the afternoon will feature puppets big and small, acts serious and silly, and performances slapstick and sublime. Stilt dancers, paper maché beasts of all sizes, and a riotous brass band make a raucous, colorful spectacle of protest and celebration.

After the show Bread & Puppet will serve its 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.

While dogs are discouraged, well behaved dogs on leash are allowed towards the back and at the top of the amphitheater. Please bring your own water as there is none on site.

Tickets: $15, no one turned away for lack of funds. Admission by donation upon arrival for kids 12 and under.

      

*Tickets to the Friday, September 4 Fall Tour Kickoff Circus will go on sale soon.

The Art of Struggle: Anti-Empire Talks

Join the Bread & Puppet Press for a series of talks in the Paper Mâché Cathedral, bringing together writers, economists, scholars, and organizers to confront U.S empire, capitalism, war, the normalization of genocide, and the possibilities for resistance. Learn more.

SEPTEMBER SHOWS

Sundays, September 13-27 at 3pm

Puppet show! Puppet show! Bread & Puppet will present an indoor performance each Sunday in September in the Paper Maché Cathedral. Join us for some up-to-the-minute, urgently-needed political puppet theater.

After the show Bread & Puppet will serve its 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.

Please note that dogs are not permitted in the Paper Maché Cathedral.

Tickets: $15, no one turned away for lack of funds. Admission by donation upon arrival for kids 12 and under.

  

No show September 6.

LEAF PEEPING

Sunday, October 4 at 2pm

The time is coming when we must celebrate the change of color in the Northeast Kingdom with our annual Political Leaf Peeping. Join us on Sunday, October 4 at 2 pm in our backyard with the sun, or in our barn with rain. Bread and Puppeteers past and present will regale you with a variety of cantastorias, hand puppet adventures, fiddle tunes, cranky shows, and shape note songs. We will put bread in your belly, garlic on your tongue, and political puppet shows in your mind. We will end the afternoon with a presentation of our last show of the season in the Paper Maché Cathedral. Be sure to dress warmly! The Museum and Cathedral are not heated!

After the show Bread & Puppet will serve its 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.

Please note that dogs are not permitted in the Paper Maché Cathedral.

Tickets: $15, no one turned away for lack of funds. Admission by donation upon arrival for kids 12 and under.

NO ONE TURNED AWAY FOR LACK OF FUNDS

We mean it. If you need financial assistance with a ticket, please email [email protected].
Admission by donation upon arrival for kids 12 and under.

PAY IT FORWARD

If you are in a position to help others with the cost of the ticket and sustain Bread & Puppet, please consider making a donation. As a political theater determined to remain independent, we do not solicit grant funding for our operating expenses. Help us spread cardboard radically! Thank you.

Photo by Garrett MacLean