Your support of Puppet Showplace shares awesome puppetry, champions artistry, and welcomes everyone. This little 100-seat theater reaches 20,000 people a year through puppetry!

Ticket sales cover about half of our costs, but we rely on contributions to keep delivering high quality puppet-y joy to you, our community.

This year we've gone deeper on our values, steering toward an even more vibrant future!

We've doubled the reach of our Affordable Access programs:
- 1 in 7 audience members used our Affordable Access programs last year. We want to welcome everyone, full stop — and your donations help support these programs to make that vision a reality!
- 5% of our attendees now use Card to Culture, our $3 ticket program for folks using WIC, SNAP, and other benefits. This particular program has tripled in size in a single year!
- We've continued our monthly Pay-What-You-Can performances and continued to strengthen our Summer Outdoor Series, which provides free and by-donation performances across Greater Boston.
- This year we launched scholarships for our summer Puppet Adventure Program, which provides a week-long day camp puppet experience!
We've expanded diverse storytelling and representation on our stage:
- Audiences have been delighted by our expanded cultural celebrations — from Hanukkah to Lunar New Year, from Christmas to Diwali.
- This year, we've piloted Multilingual Experiences in Spanish, French, Russian, and Mandarin.
- And we've expanded our Creative Residency for Black Puppeteers from two months to six months in duration, and added our first in-person performance on June 20, 2025 so that the Greater Boston community can engage with the artists directly!
We're investing in artists and the future of puppetry:
- New works created at Puppet Showplace's New Works Incubator and Creative Residency for Black Puppeteers have reached well over 50,000 audience members in at least 6 countries and 18 U.S. states! This year, we presented three world premieres from the New Works Incubator!
- New shows that got their start at Puppet Showplace have gone on to be presented by ArtsEmerson, the Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta, the United States Marine Corps Band "The President's Own", and many more.

50%, with your help.

As a nonprofit theater with a social mission, Puppet Showplace only exists through support from donors like you! Only 50% of our annual costs are covered through sales. Half of our funding comes from donations.

If you value Puppet Showplace and want to see it thrive for years to come, please consider making a gift in an amount that feels meaningful to you.

Your gift matters — but don't take our word for it!

"We would not be able to attend puppet shows as often (or possibly at all) without the assistance of Card to Culture. We are very appreciative of the program and I have utilized it to enrich my children's lives. It has a huge positive impact on my family and my children's relationship with the arts."

— Laura* from Dorchester
*Name changed for privacy

"As a single parent working multiple jobs and paying high rent, the Pay-What-You-Can option made a huge difference to be able to attend this show AND invite others who might have not been able to attend otherwise -- as well as invite others who might be able to pay more than the regular ticket price to help subsidize the show for others!"

— Rayna from Cambridge

Many ways to give:

Just click the Donate button above, choose the amount of your gift, then select your method:

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Mail a Check — select "Mail a Check"
To give via Donor Advised Fund (DAF) — select "Mail a Check"
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Or, consider a monthly gift:

Whether it's $5, $10, or $50 each month, your monthly gift allows us to plan ahead to distribute more Card to Culture tickets, field trip scholarships, and more

Considering a larger gift?

Here are a few examples of the the funding needed to make an even bigger difference:

$12,000: Access Advocate
Covers the annual cost of our $3 Card to Culture program, which offers $3 tickets to families who use SNAP (food stamps), WIC, or other forms of assistance.
$10,000: Field Trip Guardian
Supports field trips for 1,200 children who attend low-resource schools.
$5,000: Summer Supporter
Brings free outdoor shows to 500 people. Last summer, we grew beyond Brookline to reach Boston Common, Allston, and Mattapan.
$5,000: Artist Investor
Covers the cost of all five artists' micro-grants in the Creative Residency for Black Puppeteers (CRBP.)
$2,500: Language Patron
Helps to develop our new bilingual series, which has so far offered in Spanish, French, Russian, and Mandarin.

Share the Transformative Power of Puppetry This Winter

Your gift today ensures that every child can continue to find joy, understanding, and connection here at Puppet Showplace.

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