David J. Syrotiak didn't need to pull any strings to move the National Marionette Theatre from Vermont to Erie. The decision was a no-brainer after Mariana, his wife, became director of the English-as ...

With two versions of Carlo Collodi’s The Adventures of Pinocchio hitting the screens, now is as good a time as any to look at the naughty marionette’s journey from a log of wood to a real boy. The ...

Although he specialized in cuckoo clocks, woodcarver Geppetto (Tom Hanks) creates a marionette based on someone from his past in “Pinocchio.” Disney (TNS) One thing you can count on these days is not ...

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Pinocchio was written in the late 19th century by Carlo Collodi, first as a serial and later as a children’s book. Everyone knows the story (or the 1940 Disney animated movie of the same name), but we ...