A yellow stylized angel and figure appear in the foreground against a red background with small buildings and birds.

Bread & Puppet Theater

LXCL:No one turned away for lack of funds! If $20 is a barrier for you, please email tickets@breadandpuppet.org.

General Admission

LXCL:Please note that our shows are not specifically designed for children. We speak on heavy topics and advise parents that if they would allow their kids to read a newspaper, the show will be find for them.

Kids under 12

Join Bread &amp; 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&rsquo;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&rsquo;s horrors and today&rsquo;s badly needed cry for an end to war. Originally created in 1962, Bread &amp; Puppet&rsquo;s The Christmas Story was performed every year at Christmastime until the mid 1980&rsquo;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: &ldquo;The scene is at once the holy land and super America; the time then, and now&hellip; The approach may seem campy or sacrilegious. It is neither. The play says that Jesus&rsquo;s world was, in essence, ours; that both need saving.&rdquo; After the show Bread &amp; Puppet will serve its famous sourdough rye bread with aioli, and Bread &amp; Puppet&rsquo;s &ldquo;Cheap Art&rdquo; &ndash; books, posters, postcards, pamphlets and banners from the Bread &amp; Puppet Press &ndash; will be for sale.

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

Bread & Puppet Theater

B&P in Harlem, NYC - The Christmas Story

St Mary's Episcopal Church

General Admission

$20

Kids under 12

Free

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