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One hundred years ago, crowds in Austria were wowed by the meticulously carved faces and intricately tailored costumes of the puppets in the Salzburg Marionette Theatre. Today, the theater company ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...