Showtimes & Tickets
Puppet Showplace Theater returns to First Night Boston with two shows that will have you and your kiddos grinning from ear to ear!
Dec 31 (Wed) | 2025: 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Location: Copley Place Mall, 100 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02116
Free Admission: Find the full First Night Boston schedule and details on the First Night Boston website!
Puppet Showplace Theater at First Night Boston | Schedule
Party Animals: A Rock 'n' Roll Puppet Show! by Sarah Nolen & Phil Berman - 1:30 pm - 2:10 pm
Party Animals follows five furry friends as they navigate the biggest social hurdle of their young lives — throwing their first party! Meet a bunny with boundless energy, a sloth with social anxiety, a hedgehog wrestling with wrapping, and a skunk who's trying to keep everything cool and under control.
Puppet Meet and Greet - 2:10 pm - 2:45 pm
Holiday Sing-Along: A Puppet Variety Show! by Sarah Nolen & Phil Berman - 2:45 pm - 3:30 pm
Celebrate the season with a family-friendly sing-along featuring dancing snowmen, jingle bells, and lots of snowy fun! Two friendly performers guide the audience through songs, stories, and imagination games. This interactive puppet cabaret is specially designed for all ages, from our youngest audiences and their big siblings, to grown-ups who are young-at-heart! Join us for holiday favorites and songs of wintertime cheer from cultures around the world.
Find more information on the First Night Boston website →
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 four original productions, Party Animals, The Fairy Tailor, Judy Saves the Day, and Lisa the Wise, are all available to tour. Sarah also 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.
Phil Berman is a singer-songwriter, actor, and puppeteer with a BFA in Theater Arts from Boston University. He has performed in shows across the Boston area and the Northeast. He was a co-creator of Puppet Playtime at Puppet Showplace Theater and returns to the showplace with the Holiday Sing-Along every December. Phil has also played music for touring puppetry productions like The Bella Show, The Joshua Show, and What the Moon Saw. When not performing, Phil is a freelance music teacher and founder of Zibi Consulting Group, creating early childhood arts and culture curriculum for schools and daycare centers across New England.
