Michael Reilly was backstage at the Pantages Theatre, brushing tiny strokes of blue paint around the bulging eyes of Zazu — a dodo bird hand puppet featured in Disney’s “The Lion King.” The ...

"The Lion King" is one of the Broadway’s grandest spectacles. Of course it qualifies as a spectacle financially, grossing over a billion dollars and becoming the fourth longest-running Broadway show ...

The Lion King features co-puppet design by Julie Taymor and Michael Curry. There are more than 232 puppets in the show, including rod puppets, shadow puppets and full-sized puppets. The Lion King ...

"Romeo And Juliet" maybe isn't the most obvious play to adapt for kids because it's got R-rated scenes and everybody dies at the end. But what if you turned the characters into animals and perform it ...

Get the best of Vancouver in your inbox, every Tuesday and Thursday. Sign up for our free newsletter. Michael Reilly doesn’t exactly live a normal life. By day, he’s behind the scenes of the touring ...

The Lion King has been setting up at Syracuse's Landmark Theatre for weeks, and will open Oct. 26 for three weeks. The touring Broadway production has 230 puppets and more than 700 props. It takes 13 ...