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 ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. People react one of two ways to marionette maker Gustave Baumann’s string puppets: They either find the wooden ...

While some puppets are enjoying success on the stage, the intricate skills required for long-string marionettes mean they are ...

CAIRO – In a tiny Cairo workshop, Mohamed Fawzi Bakkar designs and builds marionettes from scratch, hoping to revive a traditional art. The 32-year-old spends hours or even days designing puppets ...

HIGHLAND PARK, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The coronavirus pandemic is threatening to pull the strings on the future of a Southern California puppet theater that's been around for nearly six decades. The ...

In the classic tale of Pinocchio, created in the 1880s by Italian writer and journalist Carlo Collodi, a carpenter carves a boy marionette out of a piece of ordinary wood. The puppet, dubbed Pinocchio ...

A Medley of Marionette Marvels Where Every String Pull Unveils A World of Wonder and Delight! Come join Bob Baker Marionette Theater for a visit to the magic world of strings, of puppeteers and ...

Living among the rising modern apartment complexes of Madison’s east side, marionette maker Ken Vogel manages to keep an old-fashioned art alive. Vogel, who has fashioned marionettes since the 1970s, ...

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 ...

A marionette puppet, made by Palestinian artist Mahdi Karera, is seen at his house balcony in Gaza City January 20, 2019. Picture taken January 20, 2019. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa ...