Puppets and Puppetry

Tony Dominguez: The Pinata King

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. The piñata king likes big. His royal highness, known in less formal circles as 43-year-old Tony Dominguez, makes 12-foot-tall Virgenes de Guadalupe out of papier-mâ ... More >>

A Tour of L.A. Puppet Fest

The art of puppetry has morphed over the years: from marionettes, to Muppets, to the dancing of shadows on far-away walls to Simon Morley's renowned stage show Puppetry of the Penis. But at the core, puppetry is the art of playing with and manipulating objects as extensions of oneself. Many events ... More >>

Silver Lake's Gay Rights History...As Told By Puppets

See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *L.A.'s Best Experimental Puppet Theater *Move Over, West Hollywood -- Silver Lake Is the True Gay Mecca *Silver Lake Has Always Been Gay, Readers Say Let's face it, puppets are cool. Automata, the non-profit experimental puppet theater and workshop ... More >>

Rules for Radical Puppets

Inside the World of L.A.'s Puppet Filmmakers

A movie must be completed before its screened, right? Not according to Graphation. Last night, in Downtown Los Angeles' Hive Gallery, the independent film group kickstarted their first installment of Works In Progress by presenting three unfinished films to an audience. The focus of the WIP seri ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Jane Kaczmarek in The Snake Can

Kathryn Graf's new comedy about women slipping into middle-age, The Snake Can, is this week's pick of the week. Also a nod for Cathy Rigby reprising her decades-long performance in Peter Pan. See below for all the latest New Theater Reviews, and this week's comprehensive stage listings. Also, two s ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Dostoevsky's Notes From Underground

Nods this week for Laguna Playhouse's production of Neil Simon's Chapter Two and Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground at Zombie Joe's Underground in North Hollywood. For the latest new reviews and comprehensive stage listings, see below. Tanna Frederick and Robert Standley star in N. Richard Nash's T ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Solo Show About Pioneering Actress Hattie McDaniel

Our critic Lovell Estell was entranced by Vickilyn Reynolds' performance in a show based on the life of Hattie McDaniel, Hattie -- What I Need You To Know. For all the latest New Theater Reviews, and comprehensive stage listings, see below.This week's Stage Feature takes a look a three shows th ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Sherlock's Last Case

No new reviews this week, but these will return at the same time next week, as the new theater season gets underway. See below for complete listings of shows to see this week.In this week's stage feature, we asked our stable of critics what they most dread and anticipate when being assigned a s ... More >>

Bob Baker's Nutcracker

Avenue Q

War Horse at the Ahmanson Doesn't Live Up to the Hype

How to Stage Classic Sitcoms...With Sock Puppets

The dozen or so people gathered at Atwater Crossing on this Wednesday night are watching the first episode of Friends. You remember how it goes: After ditching her fiance, runaway bride Rachel starts a new life in Manhattan with the help of her friends -- uptight Monica, ditzy Phoebe, smarmy Chan ... More >>

Beyond Avenue Q

Taiwanese Surf Rock Puppetry?! Yes, Please.

Concord, in Cypress Park, is not your typical performance venue. Lining the hallway as you enter the space are wooden shelves covered in colanders, plates, pots, peanut butter, dried beans, hot sauce and the like, sorted and labeled: "Joshua" "Collective" "Marco" etc. Long fluorescent bulbs hang fr ... More >>

Seth & Ed's Puppet Show

The Saddest Puppet Show on Earth

Your Holiday Heart on a String

Top 5 Ridiculous But Awesome Christmas Shows In L.A.

​Need a break from all the credit card-maxing, house-lighting, bad party-attending and general seasonal stressing? Why not try something outside of the gift box this year? Here, five festive, somewhat freaky holiday haps in town that are anything but cookie-cutter Christmas confections. 5. Ch ... More >>

Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey Review

Tony Dominguez's Rock Opera La Muerte Vive With Ginormous Dia de los Muertos Puppets

Simone PazTony Dominguez, maker of giant Dia de los Muertos puppets​ Tony Dominguez is a 3-D kind of guy. Most people look at a photo and see it only in two dimensions. Dominguez looks at a flat image and sees its geometry in three. He can spin it around in his head. He senses its depth.As ... More >>

Bob Baker's Halloween Hoop-Dee-Do

Chinese New Year Festival

Stuffed and Unstrung

Ice Age Encounters

A VERY OTTER CHRISTMAS

Bob Baker's Halloween Hoop-Dee-Do

Theater Reviews: Something to Crow About, Waiting fr Lefty and more

Stage Raw: Waiting for Lefty

NEW THEATER REVIEWSTheater FEATURE on Neighbors, at the MatrixNEW REVIEW GO WAITING FOR LEFTY ​Photo by Thomas MikuszThis dynamic 1935 one-act launched the career of playwright Clifford Odets, became an important social document, and solidified the reputation of the Group Theatre. Seeing it now, ... More >>

PUPPET LOVE

Road-Going Puppet Shows Presented For Your Stuck-In-Traffic Viewing Pleasure

laxart.org​You're stuck in traffic on the 110 freeway, checking your phone for text messages, listening to the road reports on radio, but otherwise bored to death. Never fear, Superclogger is here. The roving, summer-long installation presents a puppet show from the back of a "nondescript" pic ... More >>

Stage Raw: Trauma Dolls

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS This week's cover story on Pee-wee Herman; this week's Stage feature on An Oak TreeTRAUMA DOLLS ​Photo courtesy of Highways Next Friday and Saturday, January 29 and 30, at 8:30 p.m. Highways presents (Un)Concrete Musique, a trio of of multimedia m ... More >>

Bob Baker Marionette Theater's Fiesta

MASTER OF PUPPETS

Matthew Modine Can’t Save the Alpacas

Can anyone save Matthew Modine?

Dead Man's Bones To Host Month-Long Residency at Bob Baker Marionette Theater

Dead Man's Bones to become master of puppets at a month-long residency at Bob Baker Marionette Theater

Kabinet Theatre: The Wandering Marionettes Usher In LA's Burner Wave

Shannon CottrellThe Wandering Marionettes Present Kabinet Theatre​ Out on the courtyard of Hollywood nightclub Boardner's, a crowd circled the central pond, chatting as wax from the large, white candles slowly dripped and hardened to form organic designs. Scattered between the party-goers were ... More >>

Happy Birthday, Bob Baker!

A Grand Guignol Children's Show

POSTPONED!! Forget the Whales -- Save the Puppets!

Pulling Strings

The Comical Tragedy or Tragical Comedy of Mr. Punch

Sara Lov, Silverlake Lounge, 4/12

Photos by Timothy Norris Puppet show! Cool! Why don't more bands have interesting opening acts like this, I thought, as The Cinnamon Roll Gang set up shop behind a tall orange curtain between Patrick Park and Sara Lov's sets. The answer to my question came pretty quickly. Painfully loud, I saw ... More >>

Concrete Folk Variations, Chapter One: Death of a Sugar Daddy

The World According to Sesame Street

Jim Henson's Fantasy Film Collection: The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Mirrormask

Sandow's Inferno

Birk and friends bring Dante to paper, stage and screen at the same time

How Clean Was My Valley

Edited by Kateri Butler

Zoo Story

Disney’s peaceable kingdom comes to L.A.