The 5th Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival

The 5th Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival is the largest of its kind in North America and will return January 18-29, 2023 at venues large and small throughout the city.

This year, the 12-day Chicago Puppet Festival is ready to astonish and delight with contemporary puppet acts and artists from ten countries – Brazil, Canada, Czechia, Finland, France, Norway, Japan, South Africa, Spain and the United States – namely New York, Boston and, of course, Chicago.