The title character in The Rule of Jenny Pen is terrifying, but not human. Instead, Jenny Pen is a doll/hand puppet wielded with evil relish by John Lithgow’s Dave Crealy. Its bland doll face ...

There’s something haunting about assembling a bunch of puppets together. “You’re not getting scared, are you?” said Neal Cuthbert, a south Minneapolis-based artist and curator. The puppets are ...