It’s not easy emoting to a tennis ball. But in this era of computer-generated wizardry, actors are often forced to shoot their scenes opposite a character that doesn’t yet exist — an alien, a talking ...

*** A typical “fleece and foam” puppet, the kind generally associated with the Muppets, is 90 percent petrochemical materials, meaning they’re derived from the processing of petroleum and natural gas.

Jim Henson modernized the age-old art of puppetry by using foam rubber to coat the puppets’ limbs. Previously, most TV puppets were made of carved wood. But Henson believed that foam rubber and cloth ...

Thieves stole three puppets worth $10,000 from a performing arts group, cutting the company’s cast in half in the middle of a popular tour and prompting workers to frantically dig through trash bins ...