from July 11, to Jan. 16, 2013. The elaborate, large-scale marionettes were designed to gracefully execute ballet, folk and modern dance movements by clever use of counter-weighted limbs and finely ...

UConn’s puppetry program is one of the greatest in the country, a fact that most people — even UConn students — don’t know. UConn is the only university in the U.S. that offers a Master of Arts degree ...

Children at the Hinsdale Library Monday got a taste of an Old World art and entertainment. Dave Herzog, who has been making a living as a puppeteer for the past 45 years, calls marionettes “the most ...

The Salzburg Marionette Theater is launching a new festival to celebrate its 111th birthday. In future, the world's best puppeteers will be making a stop in Salzburg every two years at "Puppets! This ...

There’s a pantsless clown with an erection running wild onstage. The prankster’s mad skills have patrons doubled over in laughter, an unexpected response, maybe, for a marionette show in the 21st ...

Colorful puppets will perform at the Puppetry Guild of Pittsburgh’s fourth annual Puppet Slam on Saturday at Workingmen’s Beneficial Union in Spring Hill on the North Side. A puppet slam is a showcase ...

One day, maybe not so many days from now, the Bob Baker Marionette Theater will be gone. Its debt will prove at last too much to bear. Its boxy white buildings will be sold. And people will be sad, ...

Bob Baker Marionette Theater, May 29, 2019 (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted) LOS ANGELES — This past May, a small team was busy putting the finishing touches on the ...