Howdy Doody and Pinocchio may be the most well-known marionettes in recent time, but the craft of making puppets that move with strings dates back thousands of years. WISC-TV's Mark Koehn found a ...

One hundred years ago, crowds in Austria were wowed by the meticulously carved faces and intricately tailored costumes of the puppets in the Salzburg Marionette Theatre. Today, the theater company ...

Tanglewood Marionettes performed “The Fairy Circus” at the Ballard Saturday to an excited audience of puppetry majors and toddlers. The impressive multi-puppet performance was conducted by puppeteer ...

Not long after he’s started working at Bob Baker Marionette Theater in the mid-’80s, Randal J. Metz recalls Bob Baker literally dropping an assignment into his lap: The puppetry legend and Metz’s boss ...

Puppet-making is becoming more and more attractive to many young people as puppets become more present on TV and in advertising campaigns, reports Sarah Elhosary The popularity of using puppets in ...

The Bob Baker Marionette Theater, a Los Angeles staple, was recently at risk of shutting down due to COVID-19. The Bob Baker Marionette theater opened in 1963 as a way for kids and grownups alike to ...

Outside the Bob Baker Marionette Theater in L.A.'s Highland Park, executive director and head puppeteer Alex Evans operates Happy the Birthday Dog puppet. The "Marionette Mobile" helped the company ...

Once upon a time, not so long ago, P-22, the legendary large cat that once roamed Griffith Park while regally ruling our collective imagination, was but a tiny, mewling, roly-poly cub. Stream Los ...

Marionette-making has been added to a list of endangered crafts, with warnings that the puppetry style has "fallen out of fashion" with theatremakers. The skill was added to charity Heritage Crafts’ ...

Back in March of 2020, the day Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that all of California’s live entertainment venues needed to shut down to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, Alex Evans, executive ...