NEW YORK — Ever since there have been ventriloquists with their arms up dummies, there has been truth-telling by puppet. Fred Russell had Coster Joe. Edgar Burton had Charlie McCarthy. And on the ...

Abbott and Costello's heirs are crying foul after a Broadway play used a satanic sock puppet to perform part of the comedians' famed "Who's on First?" baseball routine. The copyright holders sued ...

Tyrone is a very, very bad puppet. And he might just be possessed by Satan. How bad does Tyrone get? The cast and crew of Lab Theater’s “Hand to God” won’t say. But they promise audiences are in for ...

It’s an achievement in physical acting when a performer can persuade an audience that he’s locked in mortal combat with a sock puppeteven more so when the puppet is clearly winning. Full credit, then, ...

Last spring Off-Broadway, "Hand to God" was a wicked little church satire about a small-town Texas teen whose sock puppet is possessed by the devil. Improbably pumped up for Broadway, with a lot more ...

Hand to God, a regional euphemism for “I swear,” turns out to be the perfect handle for this tall and demented Texas tale of a boy and his sock puppet. What seems to be arriving March 10 at the ...