Tag: What If Puppets

What if they connected: New leader wants to use puppets to give toddlers their first arts experience

By Tommy Felts / January 18, 2024

Amanda Kibler has long admired What If Puppets, the nonprofit’s new executive director shared. “It’s a great company,” she said of the Kansas City arts institution known for years as the Mesner Puppet Theater. “I’m just over the moon to be involved. I’ve been saying for a long time, it’s the one company in town…

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‘When puppets talk people listen’: It’s not just storytelling anymore for one of KC’s most beloved children’s theaters

By Tommy Felts / March 14, 2023

A Kansas City arts institution known for years as the Mesner Puppet Theater is animated with new life, said Meghann Henry, detailing a mission pivot for the freshly sewn and rebranded What If Puppets. Evolution at the nonprofit has taken a turn toward early childhood education since the retirement of Paul Mesner in 2016 —…

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