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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 ...

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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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 ...

Back in March of 2020, the day Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that all of California’s live entertainment venues needed to shut down to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, Alex Evans, executive ...