That’s a Wrap on “Robopocalypse: The Musical!”
How’d it go? What’s next? A post-tour message from PFF.

Sept. 19, 2025

Hi all!

It’s been a minute since The Brave New Not-World Tour ended on September 6th. How you been? We’re pooped from such a doozy of a production, but everything still feels electric. Thirty-six shows in thirty-one cities across six states and two timezones. We travelled to fascinating new places and played stages only days apart from our heroes. We changed a tire on a mountain top and got to check off 1/3 of the Wu-Tang clan on our “who else has played here,” bingo card. People brought their own puppets to shows and sent us fan art online. Nearly five thousand people came to see Robopocalypse: the Musical!, and some travelled to see it multiple times, which is totally bananas.

When we started this company almost exactly ten years ago today (more on this below), we had no plans or thoughts beyond it lasting a single weekend (Halloween 2015). Getting here from there is an everyday mind blow and a thrill ride we are continually grateful to still be on.

This show took months of rehearsal and nearly a year of planning to bring to life. The technical logistics to stage it were one of the biggest challenges we have faced in our nine years as a company, but it was all worth. We fought so hard to make it happen, and it was an absolute thrill for it to land with audiences from all walks of life in towns big and small.

Thanks one and all to those who attended, or followed us online, or sent in encouraging messages that helped us soldier through the exhaustion by knowing we were engaged in something worth doing.

For those who couldn’t make the show and are dying to know how it all turned out for our plucky heroes, don’t worry, there’s hope! You can read the show by purchasing the script here, and listen to the soundtrack by purchasing it here. If you missed getting a t-shirt from the merch table, click here.

And now we’re sure you’re all wondering, what’s next? Great question. Us too!

Aside from catching up on a lot of lost sleep, we have two things on our agenda.

First up is the small matter of our tenth anniversary (mentioned above).

We will be commemorating the end of our first decade with a pair of restagings of the first-ever Puppeteers for Fears show: The Mummy’s Purse. It’s a 35-minute, five-song charmfest about a mummy trotting the globe in pursuit of love, and the people she eats along the way.

We will be performing it as a lo-fi enhanced reading as part of the Stage Fright Queer Horror Festival in Portland on 10/18 and 10/19, and again at Oberon’s (the place where we got started), in Ashland on 10/30. The Ashland show will also feature another traveling puppet company, Happy Accident, from Portland.

As soon as that’s done, we will be starting planning to bring Robopocalypse: The Musical! to the greater U.S. beyond the west coast for 2026, like we did with Cthulhu: The Musical! last year. We don’t yet know the scope or timeframe, but we know we want to make it happen. We’ll let you all know more as soon as there is more to know.

Thanks all for one helluva tour, and one helluva decade. Hope to see ya’ll in the next of both of them!

Follow @PUPPETEERSFORFEARS on instagram for show announcements, tour updates, and puppet thirst traps.

For booking inquiries, contact Michael at mvtouring.com

Puppeteers for Fears is an Ashland, Oregon-based theater company specializing in original puppet horror/sci-fi musical comedy.

It’s the only all-original, all-local musical theater company between the Bay Area and the Willamette Valley. Performances are held in rotating venues, and the company tours nationally with a full cast and a live band.

Shows are R-rated, and not intended for children—unless they’re awesome.

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“The most blasphemous ritual of singing and dancing since Chicago.”

“Hilarious… a must see.”

– The Siskiyou

Puppeteers for Fears in the news:

“Best Non-OSF Theater Company”

The Rogue Valley Messenger’s Best of the Rogue Valley 2017 & 2018

 

Rave reviews for Cthulhu: The Musical!:

“You haven’t truly experienced Lovecraft’s madness until you’ve experienced it in its truest form: As a puppet musical.” – The Portland Mercury

“Epic original performance art.  You won’t be disappointed.” – Seattle Gay Scene

“The story PFF chose to adapt is dark, disturbing, and totally unfit for musical comedy–all qualities that make it a perfect fit for their irreverent style.” – Broadway World 

Recommended Event in The Stranger.

Featured pick in The Seattle Times.  

 

“I don’t even like puppets, but that was some next-level puppet shit.”

– Susan, audience member