Wurstfest is known for its food, drinks, polka music and shopping, but it is also a family-friendly event with plenty of fun and entertainment for kids. The Kinderhalle is full ...

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 ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. People react one of two ways to marionette maker Gustave Baumann’s string puppets: They either find the wooden ...

Chicago theater offers youngsters numerous opportunities to experience live dramatic art, especially puppetry. And three puppet theaters–the National Marionette Company, the Zapato Puppet Theatre and ...

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 ...

A Medley of Marionette Marvels Where Every String Pull Unveils A World of Wonder and Delight! Come join Bob Baker Marionette Theater for a visit to the magic world of strings, of puppeteers and ...

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, ...

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 ...