Fresh from War Horse, Handspring’s astonishingly lifelike creations star in a dark stage version of Ted Hughes’s Crow. Jasper Rees joins a rehearsal. Darkly comic: Mervyn Millar poses with a crow ...

Puppet artist Sandy Spieler never hesitates when asked to name her favorite children’s book, which is Taro Yashima’s Caldecott Medal-winning “Crow Boy.” But with that comes a dilemma. In upcoming ...

A gamkeeper’s gibbet looms ominously to one side of the stage at the Borough Hall in Greenwich, signalling that Crow is a puppet show with a dark heart. This debut production by Handspring UK is one ...

The puppet company behind the successful stage play War Horse has a new project in development based on Ted Hughes' Crow poems. Billed as one of the highlights of the London 2012 Festival, the show ...

Face to face: Handspring's Mervyn Millar with one of the show's Crow masks The puppet company behind the hit stage play War Horse has given the first glimpse of its creations for a new show based on ...

3 AGATHA CHRISTIE'S THE HOLLOW Will Embark on UK & Ireland Tour Beginning in October Mythic and elemental; TEd Hughes' Crow is at once comic, bleak and beautiful, evoking a world at odds with itself.

The free, family-friendly professional performance of a local Native American legend will begin at 1 p.m. in the Sol and Jean Davidow Performing Arts Theater, Davidow Hall, 460 Hollywood Ave. in ...