Building his own puppets and marionettes is part of Jayes’ magic. One of the first puppets he remembers creating was a hand ...

Fans of puppet shows are trying to save the traditional art of marionette-making in the United Kingdom before the skills are lost.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...