My dad was the first person to introduce me to shadow puppets. When my sister and I were tiny kids, he would tuck us into bed, turn off the lights and then cast an image of a dog against the wall.

From there, puppets are cut out by hand or laser and go on little stands or onto overhead projector sheets to be used in either flashlight puppetry or front-facing shadow puppetry. The show will ...

Armenian shadow puppetry is a technique whose origins can be traced to the 1300s. The puppet theater group known as Ayrogi has set out to keep this imaginative art form alive. Narek Harutyunyan Behind ...