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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An anything-but-typical wedding season has seen brides and grooms-to-be scrambling to make alternative plans. But forget settling: This one-day-only elopement event enters dream wedding territory. On ...