THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
Executive Director, Crystal Field
Presents
BREAD + PUPPET
Our Domestic Resurrection Revolution in Progress Circus and The Christmas Story
December 3 – 14, 2025
Tickets $20, Students, Seniors, Children $15
Run Time: Both shows are about 1 hour
JOHNSON THEATER
No one turned away for lack of funds. We mean it. If you need assistance with a ticket, please email breadandpuppetreservations@gmail.com.
Our Domestic Resurrection Revolution in Progress Circus
Wednesday, December 3 @ 8pm
Thursday, December 4 @ 8pm
Friday, December 5 @ 8pm
Saturday, December 6 @ 3pm
Saturday, December 6 @ 8pm
Sunday, December 7 @ 3pm
Ladles and Jellyspoons! The one and only Bread & Puppet Circus is back with Anti-Empire Art that acknowledges our beloved Mother Dirt, who makes us and unmakes us, and who presents urgently needed domestic resurrection services for the victims of this latest genocide. We are joined by Palestinian cranes on their way to Washington to replace the excrement in the White House with organic bird droppings, green frogs who teach the art of hopping over seemingly insurmountable problems, and gaggles of kindergarten butterflies who frolic to their hearts’ desire. Join us for a serious and silly circus: Our Domestic Resurrection Revolution In Progress!
The Christmas Story
Thursday, December 11 @ 8pm
Friday, December 12 @ 8pm
Saturday, December 13 @ 3pm
Saturday, December 13 @ 8pm
Sunday, December 14 @ 3pm
Join Bread & Puppet for an urgently-needed retelling of the first Christmas. In the tradition of the medieval mystery plays, this show combines reverence and impudence to speak to this exact moment. Mary and Joseph sleep with the cows because they don’t have $26.50 for a room at the Sandy Arms motel. King Herod laments the balance-of-payment deficit. The bubble-headed bourgeoisie of Jerusalem dismiss the star in the east as a publicity stunt. See this ancient story remade for today’s horrors and today’s badly needed cry for an end to war.
Originally created in 1962, Bread & Puppet’s The Christmas Story was performed every year at Christmastime until the mid 1980’s. The puppeteers have revived the show with the help of archival video and interviews with the original performers. In 1967 The New York Times said of the piece: “The scene is at once the holy land and super America; the time then, and now… The approach may seem campy or sacrilegious. It is neither. The play says that Jesus’s world was, in essence, ours; that both need saving.”
As always, the shows will include puppets large and small, music, up-to-the-minute politics, and spectacles not to be missed. After the show Bread & Puppet will serve its famous sourdough rye bread with aioli, and Bread & Puppet’s “Cheap Art” – books, posters, postcards, pamphlets and banners from the Bread & Puppet Press – will be for sale.