While some puppets are enjoying success on the stage, the intricate skills required for long-string marionettes mean they are ...
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 ...
It was 1961, Bob Baker was looking for a place for him and his beloved marionettes to call their own. Handcrafted and each with its own distinctive “personality,” the Bob Baker Marionette Theater was ...
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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 ...
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When you've been prancing, dancing, and entertaining generations of Southern Californians for decades, you might begin to wonder if novel moments and new horizons will ever begin to evaporate. Stream ...
Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The play, a dark comedy of spying in a brewery, will be staged with ...
“Ladies and gentlemen, the curtain is about to go up.” These are the last words Robert Brock speaks before a show at the Lancaster Marionette Theatre begins. Fittingly, they are the first words spoken ...
A terrifying whale, a delicate marionette made of ice and a collection of intricate figurines that travel across the terrain of human bodies were several of the sights on offer during the first week ...
After several screenings both locally and in other cities, documentarian Alexander Monelli's film "Marionette Land" will premiere on local PBS affiliate WITF at 9 p.m. on June 17. The film stars ...