Meet the Puppeteers: Word Play and Big Broken Business

Good Hearted Entertainment

Good Hearted Entertainment creates performances that combine puppetry and clowning to educate and delight. The company was founded by Honey Goodenough. Word Play was a Puppet Showplace Incubator show, and is inspired by Honey’s experience learning to manage her own dyslexia and literacy challenges. Word Play was co-created with Harry LaCoste, a local puppeteer who audiences may know from Puppet Playtime, and features music arranged & composed by Paul Watkins, PST’s former Box Office Manager!

To experience this play on words, reserve your tickets to Word Play, April 16 & 17.

Justin Lander, Modern Times Theater

Justin is a performer, puppeteer, musician, and cheap artist. He studied performance art, improvisational theater, and neuroscience at Bates College. He plays the cornet and upright bass, and specializes in novelty instruments such as the slide whistle, the bicycle pump and the human xylophone.

As one half of Modern Times Theater, along with his wife, Rose Friedman, he has been making and touring puppet shows and variety acts, and creating public community events since 2007. Working in populist theater forms, Modern Times seeks to reinvent and reimagine classic American entertainment.

To see Modern Times’ brand new show (directed by Rose!), reserve your tickets to Big Broken Business, April 22 - 24.