Peter Schumann

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Peter the gadfly

Bread and Puppet Theater founder Peter Schumann is a national treasure. Maybe that’s why George W. Bush wants to bury him.
Bread and Puppet Theater is the landmark political troupe that has been pricking US presidents and policies with a unique brand of street theater since JFK was in office.
By GREG COOK | October 16, 2008

Photos: Bread and Puppet Theater

Photographs from Bread and Puppet performances in Vermont

By GREG COOK | August 31, 2008

The Gadfly

Bread and Puppet Theater founder Peter Schumann is a national treasure. Maybe that’s why George W. Bush wants to bury him.
Nestled in the verdant mountain valley of Glover, Vermont, way up in the northern part of the state, is a farm of rolling meadows, pine forests, and gray barns, all under vast skies.
By GREG COOK | August 28, 2008

Going to Hell

Bread and Puppet tours Bush's inferno
“Abandon all hope, you who enter here” are the words we find inscribed across the gate of Hell at the beginning of the third canto of Inferno.
By GREG COOK | January 29, 2008

Making the case

Letters to the Boston editor: March 2, 2007
Bob Woodward wants us to believe he wholeheartedly thought we had to rush into war.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | February 28, 2007

State of the Union

Bread and Puppet takes on Bush’s horrorists
Peter Schumann’s Bread and Puppet Theater rolls into town next week with a carnival of political art whose main event is the not-very-family-friendly puppet pageant The Battle of the Terrorists and the Horrorists .
By GREG COOK | February 06, 2007

Sticking it to the man

Five centuries of protest art at Harvard
In 1969, Harvard University students rallied to support the creation of a black-studies program and protest the Vietnam War, the presence of ROTC on campus, and the university’s expansion into surrounding communities.
By BY GREG COOK | January 02, 2007

Dancing across the city

Between the opening of the new ICA and Bank of America's de-funding of Celebrity Series, will Boston be a city on the move or on the make in 2007?
The ICA’s Barbara Lee Family Foundation Theater, with its sprung wood dance floor and wrap-around windows framing the harbor, is positioned to become Boston dance’s most significant venue.
By DEBRA CASH | December 27, 2006

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