I hope everyone reading this is familiar with the wonderful Oregon Hill Halloween Parade. The roots of the entity that organizes that parade, the All Saints Theater Company, go back to the Bread and Puppet Theater, which is an internationally celebrated company that champions a visually rich, street-theater brand of performance art filled with music, dance and slapstick. Its shows are political and spectacular, with huge puppets made of paper maché and cardboard. Founded in 1963 by Peter Schumann on New York City’s Lower East Side, the theater has been based in the North East Kingdom of Vermont since the early 1970s. Now, the world Famous Bread and Puppet Theater visits Richmond again as part of a rare 14 week tour across the continent and back!

Here is some information on the two Richmond appearances:

Grasshopper Rebellion Circus
Wednesday Dec. 5th
Doors 7pm/ Show at 7:30pm
Suggested Donation/Sliding Scale: $10-25
Randolph Community Center
1415 Grayland Ave.

Basic Bye-Bye Show
Friday Dec. 7th
Doors at 6:30pm/Show at 8pm
Richmond’s Rumput will be opening the show at 7pm!
Suggested Donation/Sliding Scale :$10-25
Highpoint Gallery
3300 West Broad

After the performance Bread and Puppet will serve its famous free sourdough rye bread with aioli, and Bread and Puppet’s “Cheap Art” – books, posters, postcards, pamphlets and banners from the Bread and Puppet Press – will be for sale.

For more information, please visit the FaceBook event page by clicking here.