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 ...

"The mere fact that Bob Baker exists brings our community together," Brie Larson says of the historic Bob Baker troupe. By Gary Baum Senior Writer Not long ago, Hollywood’s beloved Bob Baker ...

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 ...

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 ...

Allie Mac Kay becomes a puppeteer at the Bob Baker Marionette Theater in Echo Park. Allie learns how to use the different strings of her puppet Happy. The Bob Baker Marionette Theater has been ...

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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

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 inspired by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Not long ago, Hollywood's beloved Bob Baker Marionette Theater was hanging on by a thread. In the final decades of its eponymous ...