A Manual Cinema show is hard to explain. It’s performed live, but it’s not quite a theater piece. It’s puppetry but not in the traditional sense. It’s cinema, as the company’s name suggests, yet ...

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Inspired by Shakespeare’s Macbeth, this spellbinding new production intertwines shadow puppetry, live performance, and music to tell a haunting original story of grief, vengeance, and transformation.

What you nurture grows. And for a nameless girl at the center of Manual Cinema’s exquisitely creative tale “The 4th Witch,” her need to avenge the death of her parents becomes a rage-fueled, ...