Internationally known magician Joe Keppel will present a magic and vaudeville performance followed by a hands-on magic workshop. Keppel’s show entitled, Magic, Mayhem, and Motion, will combine his performance of magic and comedy with lots of audience participation.

Joe Keppel has performed his magic in over 40 countries and 35 states. He works annually in over 100 schools with his educational school assemblies on the subjects of Reading and Geography. Performance artist Bruce Ward will be guest starring with Joe Keppel. Bruce and Joe well recreate some classic Abbott & Costello and Marx Brothers routine as part of their comedy magic schtick. Bruce is well known in the valley as “Clarence the Clown” but will be performing without his makeup for this performance. Besides their regular performances Both Bruce and Joe were members of  the groups “The Pasta Brothers” and “Magic, Mayhem, and Motion”.

Also joining us for this year’s Magic Day, will be Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Lehigh Valley.  Come and learn about their programs and meet members of their team!

Tickets: $5 for the show/ $7.50 for the show and workshop combination

Contact Mock Turtle Marionette Theater 610-867-8208 or doug@mockturtle.org

for details, directions and reservations.

Large, elaborate puppets who “play” musical instruments (together with their human handler) will be on stage at the Ice House in Bethlehem on Saturday, May 18 in a 3:00 p.m. performance that creatively shows how numerous ethnicities and cultures have contributed to great classical music.

The “Museum of Music” is an entertaining show for children and their families, to be followed immediately by a puppet-making workshop and refreshments. The project is a collaboration between the Pennsylvania Sinfonia Orchestra and Mock Turtle Marionette Theater, with artistic director Doug Roysdon.

We have almost entirely COLLEGE YOUTH making this happen as actors and stage directors (except for the professional musicians). Doug Roysdon is operating the puppets and, of course, wrote the show. A youth show with YOUTH INVOLVEMENT! The musicians are PERFECT. Simon Maurer as the violinist is in his heaven- he can improvise, play classical, Hungarian gypsy music PLUS jazz and even gospel/bluegrass. He can ham it up plus play many styles of music .. even true fiddle music. Michael Toth on piano is doing the same thing and Christa Warda is really looking forward to being the opera “DIVA”

Tickets: Students under 17, $7.50. Adults, $10.

Limited seating! Call to reserve: 610 434-7811

General Admission to The Ice House Saturday Series is $7.50.  All are welcome. 

For more information on the workshop contact Doug Roysdon at 610-653-3462.

 For more information on the music and the workshop, contact Bill Thatcher @ 610 252 3203

Valley storyteller Charles Kiernan will perform Americana stories from his collection of Appalachian tales whose wisdom and humor is woven into the life of a little village stuck way back in the hills.   Meanwhile, The Lehigh Valley Folk Music Society will provide the perfect accompaniment for our story teller as they offer a score traditional American folk music and audience sing-along.  The show will be followed by a folk music workshop provided by the Folk Music Society.  After the show everyone is invited to see what our community partner, Wildlands Conservancy, has to offer families and the community in general over the coming year.

Tickets: $5 for the show and story time/$7.50 for the show and workshop combination

Special $6 price for show and workshop to Wildlands Conservancy members        

Contact: Mock Turtle for details, directions and reservations at 610-8678208 doug@mockturtle.org

The event will be held at 10 AM at the Charles Brown IceHouse, 56 River Road, Sand Island, Bethlehem.

Our event begins with DaPooch, a children’s play by Touchstone Theatre. Follow the tale of Poochie’s Three Hundred and Seventy Second Birthday AND how the Hunga Munga Munga SAVED HIS LIFE!  And best of all, meet master story teller and Touchstone co-founder, Bill George, in this amusing and thrilling tale of Poochie’s eventful birthday, how the animals helped him, and how, sometimes, what you fear most can be your salvation. A story for the whole family, we’ll have music, audience participation, and lots of joyful silliness.

 After our fifty minute performance, the audience is invited to join the Children’s Coalition of Lehigh Valley and Mock Turtle Marionette Theater for our “Who Protects Me” workshop.  All children will have the opportunity to make a puppet and write a short script telling us all about the people who look out for them every day.  Following the show and workshop, you will be invited to meet our friends from the Children’s Coalition of Lehigh Valley and learn what you can do to help prevent child abuse in our community.

Tickets: $5 for the show and story time/$7.50 for the show, the story and the puppet-making workshop – Contact Mock Turtle Marionette Theater for details, directions and reservations at 610-867-8208/doug@mockturtle.org

The workshop will be held at 10 am at the Charles Brown IceHouse, 56 River Road, Sand Island, Bethlehem.  

 This year’s family series has been supported by donations from Just Born, Lehigh County, The Hoch Foundation, The Century Fund and The Lehigh County Arts Council.

And thus follows a long string of puppet experiments in which we meet marionette dancers and bagpipers, a Bunraku lion, a rod puppet opera singer and the caste of Humpty Dumpty in the form of a toy theater production.  Full of storytelling, audience participation and music, Just Like a Puppet culminates in the revelation of the secret and in the moral of the story.   Also joining us for our March 5^th show will be Project Easton who will bring their kids and talk a little bit about what’s new in downtown Easton. 

Show starts at 10 am. Tickets: $5 for the show and story time/$7.50 for the show, the story and the puppet-making workshop.

Contact Mock Turtle Marionette Theater for details, directions and reservations at 610-867-8208.

This year’s family series has been supported by donations from Just Born, Lehigh County, The Hoch Foundation, The Century Fund and The Lehigh County Arts Council.

This year’s Valentine’s Day show is part of Godfrey Daniels 35th Anniversary Celebration which will be observed this March at the coffeehouse in Southside Bethlehem.  Our concert is one in a long series of performances in which Godfrey’s  has entertained three generations of Lehigh Valley families with great live folk music.  Visit www.godfreydaniels.org for more information.

Tickets: $5 for the show/ $7.50 for the show and workshop combination- Contact Mock Turtle Marionette Theater for details, directions and reservations at 610-867-8208/doug@mockturtle.org

            Our program partner for this year’s Black History Month event will be The Caring Place from Allentown.  The Caring Place provides programs and activities designed to help young people overcome the pressures and limitations of the inter-city environment.  The organization will be making a short presentation about their work as a part of this year’s collaborative event.

Tickets: $5 for the show/ $7.50 for the show and workshop combination.

The program will occur at 10 AM at the Charles Brown IceHouse, 56 River Road, Sand Island, Bethlehem. For information reservations and directions, Contact Mock Turtle Marionette Theater www. mockturtle.org or 610-867-8208 or at doug@mockturtle.org

This year’s family series has been supported by donations from Just Born, Lehigh County, The Holt Family Foundation, The Century Fund and The Lehigh County Arts Council.