PINOLE, Calif. — Walking into the Fratello Marionettes workshop is like stepping into a world of imagination. There are wolves and fantastical animals of every description, and stringed people of ...

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 ...

Gustave Baumann (1881-1971) originally crafted his wooden marionettes to entertain his daughter, Ann, as well as friends and neighbors, with performances on his hand-built stage, replete with painted ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This eight-string marionette was made by William N. Buckner, Jr. (1888-1984), a 1907 graduate of M Street High School, ...

For its latest marionette adaptation, Puppetworks Inc. will present the godmother of all fairy tales, “Cinderella,” on Saturday and Sunday. Enjoy the hand-carved wooden marionettes that move to the ...

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 ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. To make this marionette, William N. Buckner, Jr. (1888-1984) used skills honed at M Street High School, an African ...

The Puppetworks will present Carlo Collodi’s 1882 adventures of a wooden marionette, “Pinocchio,” in its Brooklyn Theatre, 338 Sixth Avenue, on Saturdays and Sundays from May 3 to August 17 at 12:30 p ...