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Our friends at the Pantages Theatre let us know that today is World Puppetry Day! So, how best to celebrate then by looking at our events calendar for puppet-related events? While there are events for kids, the humor and magic of puppetry comes to life in shows for all kinds of ages!
Kid-Friendly/All Ages
7th Annual Easter Festival
Location: Orange County Market Place - Costa Mesa
Date/Time: March 24th 2013 - 9:30AM-2:30PM (Swap Meet 7AM-4PM)
Cost: $2 or Free for ChildreN Under 12
Ages: All Ages
In addition to Easter events like treasure hunts, Easter baskets treats, and Easter bunny photos, this festival also offers face painting, mural coloring, and a marionette puppet show! Uncle Gus Puppet Carnival occurs at 10:30AM, NOON, and 2PM and is presented by Pullin Strings Puppet Productions of Huntington Beach.
Location: The Skirball Cultural Center - Beverly Hills
Date/Time: April 7th 2013 - 10AM-4:30PM
Cost: $10 General Admission; $7 Seniors and Children over 12; $5 Children 2-12; FREE to Skirball Members and Children Under 2
Cost: $10 General Admission; $7 Seniors and Children over 12; $5 Children 2-12; FREE to Skirball Members and Children Under 2
Ages: All Ages
In this second annual event, the Skirball hosts a festival of art making, close-up puppet happenings, and a host of puppet performances "sure to delight visitors ages 2 to 102". The event brings together some of Southern California's most talented puppeteers and artists.
Location: North Hollywood Senior Arts Colony - San Fernando Valley
Date/Time: April 20th 2013 - 2:00PM-3:30PM
Cost: FREE exhibit and shadow theater performance
Cost: FREE exhibit and shadow theater performance
Ages: All Ages
A special performance in culmination of the 2013 Art & Craft of Shadow Theater, this event serves as one of the first kick-off events for the first annual Los Angeles Puppet Week celebrations.
Location: Natural History Museum - Downtown Los Angeles
Date/Time: Year Round (Schedule subject to Change - Check with Museum for Information)
Cost: Included with Museum Admission.
Ages: All Ages
Ages: All Ages
At the Natural History Museum, NHM paleontologists and puppeteers bring dinosaurs to life with realistic T.rex and Triceratops large-scale puppets.
Songs of Bilitis
Location: Bootleg Theater - Downtown Los Angeles
Location: Bootleg Theater - Downtown Los Angeles
Date/Time: Thu-Sat through April 7th - 7:30PM-9:30PM
Ages: Mature Audiences Only
The Rogue Artists Ensemble combines multimedia projects with puppetry, movement, live audio-sampling, and Greek Masks as they explore "how a flamboyant heterosexual avant-garde Parisian novelist successfully impersonated a lesbian Greek poet in the most elaborate erotic literary hoax the world has ever known".
Real Men Sing Show Tunes...and play with puppets
Location: Norris Center for the Performing Arts - South Bay
Location: Norris Center for the Performing Arts - South Bay
Date/Time: Select Dates and Times - April 26th 2013-May 12th 2013
Ages: Mature Audiences Only
This musical features 29 original songs and "pays homage to all things male" including fatherhood, mid-life crisis, dating and marriage. Puppetry is used to fill out the "zany characters". Originally premiering in Florida in 2012, this is the West Coast premiere of the show.
-Charity Tran, ExperienceLA Editor
-Charity Tran, ExperienceLA Editor
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