Cardboard Explosion! by Paper Heart Puppets

Experience stories no one has ever seen before, brought to life using nothing but cardboard and the power of your imagination. With help from the audience, puppeteer Brad Shur transforms simple cardboard shapes into elaborate puppet characters, then brings them to life right before your eyes.

Sandglass Theater's Winter Sunshine Series, Southern Vermont’s beloved winter puppetry tradition, celebrates its 19th season in February 2026. Rooted in joy, creativity, and community, Winter Sunshine brings families together for cozy, homemade fun through the timeless art of live puppetry.

Puppeteer, puppet builder and arts educator Brad Shur is the founder and lead artist of Paper Heart Puppets. Brad began performing as a student at the Rhode Island School of Design. While earning a degree in film, he was a regular performer at late night puppet slams and with Big Nazo Puppets.

From there, Brad went on to tour nationally with Wood and String Puppet Theatre and Vermont Puppetree. As a freelance puppet builder he created puppets for American Idol, Dolly Parton’s Dollywood amusement park and many theaters and other performers. In 2009, he became the Resident Artist at Puppet Showplace Theater in Brookline, Massachusetts where he served as the lead teaching artist and touring puppeteer for eight years. During that time, Brad developed six original shows and revived several classic shows created by Paul Vincent Davis.

You may also like the following events from Sandglass Theater:

• Next Saturday, 14th February, 11:00 am, Winter Sunshine presents The Baffo Box Show by Modern Times in Putney
• This month, 21st February, 11:00 am, Winter Sunshine presents Party Animals by Puppet Motion in Putney
• This month, 28th February, 11:00 am, Winter Sunshine presents Fairy Circus by Tanglewood Marionettes in Putney

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