Photo by Peter Senzamici
Enjoy live, “fun-sized” puppetry shorts at Boston’s kick-off event for the Summer Eats program!
July 11 (Fri) 2025: short puppet performances will take place from 12:20 pm – 1:30 pm, as part of an event that runs from 11:30 am - 1:30 pm.
Paris Street Playground, 112 Paris Street, East Boston, MA (map). Near Maverick MBTA Station (Blue Line). In case of rain, event will move inside to BCYF Paris Street Community Center.
FREE — no tickets necessary!
This Boston Summer Eats event runs 11:30 am - 1:30 pm, with meal service beginning at 12:00 pm. This event will include outdoor lawn games, sidewalk chalk, and ice cream!
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About the Event
Puppet Showplace Theater is delighted to take part in the 2025 Boston Summer Eats kickoff in East Boston! This event includes lunch for youth, ice cream, outdoor lawn games, music, and…mini puppet shows!
The event will start at 11:30 am, with lunch and kickoff remarks beginning at 12:00 pm. From 12:20 - 1:30 pm, while lunch is being served, Puppet Showplace will present short, comic puppet scenes set to music, created and performed by our very own Resident Artist, Sarah Nolen of Puppet Motion. Sarah Nolen’s masterful comedic stylings and puppetry skills make her a fan favorite for audiences ages 3 to 103. Her artistry has been seen on stage and screen, and she was recently profiled in The Boston Globe.
Boston Summer Eats provides nutritious breakfast and lunch at no cost at many locations across the City of Boston. All youth 18 and under are welcome to participate. No ID or registration required. To learn more about the dozens of locations where kids can enjoy Summer Eats meals all summer long, visit the Boston Summer Eats website or call 1-800-645-8333. Puppet Showplace is delighted to partner with this important program that helps make sure that kids and teens have access to nutritious food all summer long!
All ages welcome, from 3 to 103!
Hand puppetry
Length: Short 5-8 minute vignettes
Language: Wordless!
From Waltham!
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About the Artist
Sarah Nolen is a puppeteer and filmmaker originally from Austin, Texas. As Puppet Showplace Theater’s Resident Artist, she performs regularly for youth and family audiences and teaches puppetry in camps, workshops, residencies, and evening adult classes. Her three original productions, The Fairy Tailor, Judy Saves the Day, and Lisa the Wise, are all available to tour — plus, her latest show Party Animals. Sarah recently designed puppets for Little Uprisings’s My Night in the Planetarium, Metropolitan Chorale's The Unicorn, the Gorgon, and the Manticore, and for Suffolk University's Loss of Breath: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe. In addition to her work in puppetry, Sarah is an experienced filmmaker. In 2015, she received the Mister Rogers Memorial Scholarship in support of her television pilot Treeples, a show geared towards empowering girls, which screened at film festivals across the U.S. Sarah earned her BFA in film from Southern Methodist University, and an MFA in Puppet Arts from the University of Connecticut.
