Poignant tribute to Anne Frank

Center for Puppetry Arts brings back Holocaust story.

The Center for Puppetry Arts tells the compelling and powerful story about Anne Frank’s day-to-day life in hiding from Nazis.

Even Mira Hirsch, first-time director at the Center for Puppetry Arts, admits to initially worrying about whether inanimate objects could carry the deeply emotional story.

But the performances fea- turing doll-like, delicately sculpted figures side by side with two actor/puppeteers, Jeffrey Hyman and Caitlin Roe, along with violinist Chip Epsten are moving audiences to tears.

First staged by the Center for Puppetry Arts in 2006, “Anne Frank: Within and Without” is getting a third production now through March 8.

The show is recommended for ages 12 and up, and postshow talk-backs take place At myAJC.com/living, keep up with the latest on the expansion at the Center for Puppetry Arts and other local arts attractions. The new expansion will, in part, house 400 puppets donated by Muppet creatorJim Henson’s family.

Anne Frank

CONTRIBUTED BY CENTER FOR PUPPERTY ARTS Anne Frank and Peter van Pels, the teenage son of the other family that hid with the Franks, are operated by Jeffrey Hyman and Caitlin Roe in “Anne Frank: Within and Without.”