I’m proof of the power of puppets. Besides growing up with the Neighborhood of Make-Believe from “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” and the Muppets of Jim Henson’s magic, paper lunch bag puppet shows were ...

Plexus Polaire performers onstage during a production of "Moby Dick." (Courtesy Christophe Raynaud de Lage) A story of a whaling expedition is not too far removed from the realities many experience in ...