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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Photo by Alex Evans. The Bob Baker Marionette ...

On the Los Angeles County Fair asphalt, a mobile stage faces the Millard Sheets Art Center and the Clock Tower. At either end of the low flatbed truck, behind curtains, two puppeteers limber up with ...

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 ...

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 ...

When 4-year-old Dave Herzog was being disruptive on a family vacation in Mexico, his father promised to buy him a toy if he quieted down. What he received was a child’s marionette of a ...

In the movie spoof “This Is Spinal Tap,” the band members knew their days were numbered when they got second billing to a puppet show. “Oh no! ” wailed their manager. “If I told them once, I told them ...