Balancing Clown marionette puppet. Photo: Staffordshire Archives and Heritage service. Made in the 1980s, he balances a ball on his nose.

It's a clown-it-up good time, in short. "The Circus" has a long history with the Bob Baker Marionette Theater , with its upbeat origin story starting in the late 1940s. MirageC/Bob Baker ...

Filled with scores of photos and sketches of set designs, marionettes, and puppets (including longtime favorite Bobo the clown), Enchanted Strings: Bob Baker Marionette Theater is a tale of how ...

Favorite Puppet: "Clown Fairy. Bob Baker's clown puppets are very special. Some are mischievous, some are daring, some carry deep sadness, some walk on their hands or cascade across the stage on ...

The Bob Baker Marionette Theater is the longest running puppet theater in the US, and 89-year old Mr. Baker still puppeteers himself every once in a while, to the delight of adults and children alike.

Tramp Clown Puppet Contributed by Malvern Museum of Local History ... In 1938 the Lanchester Marionette Theatre performed before King George VI and the royal family at Buckingham Palace.

An exhibition piece at the recently opened Puppet Museum in Lugano, Switzerland, July 3, 2020. Lugano will hold the 38th edition of the annual international Marionette Festival in October and ...

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 ...

A generation of 1950s Baltimore children grew up with Paul’s Puppets, 15 minutes of Hansel and Gretel or Jo-Jo the Clown four nights a week on WBAL-TV. In a less complicated era of broadcasting ...

Steve Meltzer, a gently enthusiastic puppeteer who ran a one-man theater and museum operation, the Santa Monica Puppetry Center, for more than a decade, has died.He was 56. Two hours after he ...