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$18.50 all-ages general admission / $14.50 members / plus $3 service fee
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Dec 18 (Fri) 2026: 4:00 pm (PWYC)
Dec 19 (Sat) 2026: 10:30 am | 1:00 pm | 3:00pm
Dec 20 (Sun) 2026: 10:30 am | 1:00 pm | 3:00pm
Dec 22 (Tue) 2026: 4:00 pm | 6:00 pm
Dec 23 (Wed) 2026: 4:00 pm | 6:00 pm
Dec 24 (Thu) 2026: 10:30 am | 1:00 pm
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About the Show
Celebrate the season with a Puppet Showplace annual tradition — a family-friendly variety show, with live music you can sing along to and plenty of puppets! This annual favorite features dancing snowmen, jingle bells, spinning dreidels, Christmas hippopotamuses, and lots of snowy fun. Watch while a comedic grandma finally succeeds at making a pecan pie, anticipate with a child who catches a star while waiting for Christmas, and feel your heart lift while a puppet goes ice skating for the very first time. The audience will sing along to familiar holiday songs from the Great American Songbook, like "Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire" and "Deck The Halls," as well as “Feliz Navidad,” "I Have A Little Dreidel,” a Russian folk song about winter boots, and more, accompanied by multi-instrumental wonder Phil Berman on guitar, toy piano, harp, and more.
Performers Sarah Nolen of Puppet Motion, talented puppet creator and our Resident Artist, and Phil Berman, singer-songwriter and early childhood music educator, will lead the way through this interactive puppet cabaret. The show is specially designed to delight all ages, from our youngest audiences and their big siblings, to grown-ups who are young at heart!
All ages welcome, especially enjoyed by ages 2 - 9
Mixed puppetry styles and live music
Length: 45 minutes
Language: English
From Greater Boston!
After the Show: Meet the Puppets & More!
Stay after the show to meet the artists and see the puppets up close!
Plus, enjoy a dress-up station and coloring sheets! These activities are available for 30 minutes after every performance.
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.
