The carpeted floor of the main theater at Vidiots is drizzled with popcorn as dozens of children and their families crowd around a puppet show. Show tunes blast over the speaker as a puppet named ...

Matthew Tye holds puppet Sir Ebral, a character seen in "Election Day" at Appleseed Avenue, an escape room venue featuring puppets. (Juliana Yamada / Los Angeles Times) I am standing on what looks ...

On the Los Angeles County Fair asphalt, a mobile stage faces the Millard Sheets Art Center and the Clock Tower. At either end of the low flatbed truck, behind curtains, two puppeteers limber up with ...

Jonaki Mehta is a producer for All Things Considered. Before ATC, she worked at Neon Hum Media where she produced a documentary series and talk show. Prior to that, Mehta was a producer at Member ...

LOS ANGELES -- I am standing on what looks like a cramped, dark city street. A tavern is around a corner, a police department in front of me. And I'm lost. That's when I hear a whisper. "Psst." I turn ...