When the world’s most remarkable practitioners of the art of toy theater and miniature puppetry converge on the Los Angeles Music Center for a two-day festival for young audiences, REDCAT joins the whirlwind with a special night-time program -- for adults. Expect clever manipulation of objects, brilliant table-top theatrical epics, and a new work by Los Angeles collaborators Paul Zaloom and Lynn Jeffries guaranteed to change the way you think about the alphabet. The program also includes a special screening of the puppet and toy theater film version of Dante’s Inferno, adapted by Sandow Birk, Elyse Pignolet, Sean Meredith and Zaloom, and featuring the voices of Dermot Mulroney and James Cromwell.

See http://redcat.org/season/0708/the/toy2.php ($)