The circus is coming! The circus is coming! The Bread & Puppet Theater is on tour, bringing its iconic circus to the Will Rogers Park Amphitheater in Oklahoma City on Saturday, October 18th, 2025. The company presents Our Domestic Resurrection Revolution in Progress Circus, a brand new show in the tradition of the iconic Bread & Puppet Circuses that began in 1970 while in residence at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont. As usual, the show will draw on traditional circus tropes and familiar Bread & Puppet iconography to highlight urgent issues of the day. Stilt dancers, papier maché beasts of all sizes, and a riotous brass band make a raucous, colorful spectacle of protest and celebration. After each show Bread & Puppet will serve its famous sourdough rye bread with aioli, and “Cheap Art” will be for sale, including books, posters, postcards, pamphlets, and banners from the Bread & Puppet Press.

Director Peter Schumann reminds us that this year’s circus brings “Anti-Empire Art that acknowledges our beloved Mother Dirt, who makes us and unmakes us, and who presents urgently needed domestic resurrection services for the victims of this latest genocide. We are joined by Palestinian cranes on their way to Washington to replace the excrement in the White House with organic bird droppings, green frogs who teach the art of hopping over seemingly insurmountable problems, and gaggles of kindergarten butterflies who frolic to their hearts’ desire.”

Now in its 62nd year, Bread & Puppet will tour to some of its regular fall stops including New York, Cambridge, and Baltimore, as well as to cities and towns in Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Missouri. In all, Bread & Puppet will play the circus 37 times in 34 places. The full tour schedule is available at BreadAndPuppet.org/Tour. Join us for a serious and silly circus!

Get tickets and support the Oklahoma City show at www.bptokc.blogspot.com.

ABOUT BREAD AND PUPPET THEATER
The Bread and Puppet Theater is an internationally celebrated company that champions a visually rich, street-theater brand of performance art filled with music, dance and slapstick. Believing that theater is a basic necessity like bread, the company frequently brings its work to the streets for those who may not otherwise go to the theater. Its shows are political and spectacular, with puppets often on stilts, wearing huge masks with expressive faces, singing, dancing and playing music.

Bread and Puppet is recognized throughout the world and has won distinction at international theater festivals in Italy, Poland, Colombia, and Yugoslavia, beginning with their break-out performances at the 1968 Nancy Festival in France. Notable awards include the Erasmus Prize of Amsterdam, 4 Obies, the Puppeteers of America's President Award, and the Vermont Governor's Award. Bread and Puppet is constantly active, performing at its farm in Glover, VT, and in local churches, schools and parades. It regularly tours Europe, Canada, and the United States and has recently visited El Salvador, Haiti, Russia, and Korea.

Founded in 1963 by Peter Schumann on New York City’s Lower East Side, the theater has been based in the North East Kingdom of Vermont since the early 1970s and is one of the oldest, nonprofit, self-supporting theatrical companies in the country.

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