... Muppets back Norwich puppet theatre ZANY PUPPETS, the Muppets. have joined the growing list of supporters of Norwich's new Puppet Theatre. Muppets' creator, Jim Henson. has agreed to become a patron of the theatre and has indicated his faith in the project ...

... which start Rutger Hauer and Alan Arkin. Lord Grade has worked with Starger before on Sophie's Choice, On Golden Pond and The Muppet Movie and his TV credits include the award winning mini series Jesus of Nazareth. ...

... audiences, he said. It's difficult to get support for puppet relaxed ventures unless you've made it, like Spitting Image or The Muppets. ...

... puppeteers who trained at the centre, including Claridge and Bob Carolgees. The London arm of the Henson Organisation, set up by Muppets cre ator Jim Henson, declared it a sad day for British puppetry. It comes on the eve of a Gulbenkian Foundation report into ...

... situations to the traditional characters. When the jokes hit the mark, they get big laughs (the similarity between Yoda and the Muppet Show's Fozzie Bear, theories to why Chewbacca doesn't get subtitles), but when they don't, they're embarrassingly awful (the ...

... his subconscious, who wears electric- blue lipstick and carries a plastic head stuffed with newspaper, and investigates a Muppet-worshipping cult that wears yellow curtains. It is a self-consciously wacky production, right down to the programme, which ...

... experienced Dame Trot, with Simple Simon played by young Paul Zerdin. A familiar face on TV, an accomplished vent, with the Muppet-like Sam, and expert with the kids, this is Zerdin's first panto but he is one to watch out for in the future. After a wordy ...

... Denise Stoklos in Casa Assembly Rooms Denise Stoklos totters on to the stage like an ungainly, but lithe, long-limbed muppet on strings with bleached, straw-blonde hair. She honks, hoots and mutters incoher ently about evolution as she falls around the ...