12.9.2022 Alex & Olmsted Puppetry presents "Milo the Magnificent" at the Arts Barn

Gaithersburg, MD – (December 9, 2022) The Gaithersburg Arts Barn and Alex & Olmsted Puppetry present "Milo the Magnificent” on Saturday, December 17, 2022, at 1 and 3 p.m. The Arts Barn is located at 311 Kent Square Road. Admission is $10, $3 for youth ages 10 and under. This performance is suitable for all ages. Purchase tickets here.

Milo the Magnificent is a highly engaging puppet show about an aspiring magician. This wordless comedy, inspired by turn of the century vaudeville entertainers, is as highly physical as it is charming. Using stunningly innovative puppetry, Milo presents a variety of magic tricks which don't always go as planned.

Milo the Magnificent was awarded the 2017 Jim Henson Foundation Grant and the 2017 Greenbelt Community Foundation Grant.

"Milo is a bit of a cardboard character, but you can't blame him for that. He's a puppet: specifically, a huge cutout fellow, whose arms, hands and feet belong to one of his creators, and whose changing facial expressions are recorded on flippable circular cards. The duo Alex & Olmsted — Alex Vernon and Sarah Olmsted Thomas — invented his world, which includes other puppets made of cleverly repurposed materials. Milo, appearing here as part of the Just Kidding series, aspires to be an illusionist, and while his tricks and experiments rarely work out as planned, children will still find them magical." - Laurel Graeber, The New York Times (January 5, 2018)

Alex and Olmsted (Alex Vernon and Sarah Olmsted Thomas) is an internationally acclaimed puppet theater and filmmaking company based in Maryland. Alex and Olmsted was awarded the 2020 State Independent Artist Award for Performing Arts from the Maryland State Arts Council, the highest honor for performing artists in the State of Maryland. In addition to the 2017 Jim Henson Foundation Grant awarded for Milo the Magnificent, the team was awarded a second grant to further develop their outer space show, MAROONED! A Space Comedy. Alex and Olmsted is a resident company at Baltimore Theatre Project. Vernon and Thomas are also proud company members of Happenstance Theater with whom they have created 10 productions since 2012.

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Arts Barn programming is funded in part by a grant from the Maryland State Arts Council (MSAC). To discover more about MSAC grants and how they impact Maryland's arts sector, visit www.msac.org.