Axel F entertains audiences to the tune of the "Beverly Hills Cop" theme. submitted GREENFIELD — There’s something magical about puppets — especially the ones on strings, called marionettes. You pull ...

Backstage, Old Mike hangs lifeless from a string. His leathery face – furrowed with wrinkles of a hard life – stares straight ahead, as he waits for his cue. Once the light hits the dark stage, Old ...

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 ...

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 ...

Huntington Beach resident Tait Hill has always had a fascination with puppets and animated figures and after 20 years in the marionette business, he has pulled out all the stops — or rather the ...

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 ...

“Percy Bilton was a Fleetwood institution, unique in Fleetwood’s history.” ...

In the classic tale of Pinocchio, created in the 1880s by Italian writer and journalist Carlo Collodi, a carpenter carves a boy marionette out of a piece of ordinary wood. The puppet, dubbed Pinocchio ...

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 ...