Mo Willems is a modern master, creating children’s books with the perfect balance of sweet, sassy, and straight-up silly. While most parents know the serialized antics of Pigeon or Elephant and Piggy, his one-off stories are just as charming. The Emmy Award-winning collective Manual Cinema brings one of those books, Leonardo, the Terrible Monster, to vivid life at the Paramount. Willems’ tale of a not-so-scary monster bursts to vivid life with music and cinematic trickery and, naturally, hundreds of puppets. Is it a play, a concert, a puppet show, or a movie? Why not all of the above? – Cat McCarrey
