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 ...

For more than half a century, the Bob Baker Marionette Theater has entertained children, as it did on a recent Friday when small boys and girls ignored their parents’ smartphones to marvel and ...

By Degen Pener Deputy Editor Fifty-nine years after it opened, the Bob Baker Marionette Theater, the oldest operating children’s theater in Los Angeles, is the subject of a definitive coffee ...

“In my mind, this is the best room in L.A.,” says Alex Evans in an office above the main floor of the Bob Baker Marionette Theater, where he serves as executive director and head puppetee ...

Join us for a behind-the-scenes tour. At one of the Bob Baker Marionette Theater’s recent shows, animal puppets danced around the stage. Video by Nolwen Cifuentes for The New York TimesCredit ...

Six years ago, the Bob Baker Marionette Theater was evicted from its longtime Echo Park home and the search for new digs eventually landed them at a former church on York Blvd. in Highland Park.

Vidiots joined forces with the Bob Baker Marionette Theater nearby to give families and parents a way to take their minds off the devastation. "The show was planned as a way to give families some ...

But because Pierre Droin is a puppeteer, not an actor, he can — and will — bring both characters to life, along with several others, during the Salzburg Marionette Theatre’s four-day visit t ...