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 ...

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The Bob Baker Marionette Theater will usher in its 51st season as the nation's oldest ongoing puppet theater with the perennial audience favorite "MAGIC STRINGS" opening Saturday, January 22, 2011. To ...

When the Bob Baker Marionette Theater opened its doors in 1963 on the southern tip of Echo Park, its namesake puppeteer expected commercial development and foot traffic to follow. When that didn't ...

Puppet master Nicolas Coppola has more than one string to his bow. The founder and artistic director of Park Slope’s Puppetworks theater does not just produce puppet shows — he also designs and builds ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Allie Mac Kay becomes a puppeteer at the Bob ...

The Samurai’s Daughter is a heart-warming theatrical adventure inspired by the Japanese folktale Hime with the Big Hat. The story is brought to life through Japanese culture and traditional ...

Axel F entertains audiences to the tune of the "Beverly Hills Cop" theme. submitted GREENFIELD — There’s something magical about puppets — especially the ones on strings, called marionettes. You pull ...