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 ...

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THE BASICS: BUFFALO PINOCCHIO, a new adaptation of the classic story, written and directed by Richard Lambert, stars a wide variety of puppets and marionettes and humans who are: Todd Fuller, David ...

After seven years, the Orlando Puppet Festival has given way to a smaller to-do at Pinocchio’s Marionette Theater in Altamonte Springs. This year’s Puppet Festival at Pinocchio’s celebrates the troupe ...

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Sign up for our Brooklyn Paper email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox! Puppet master Nicolas Coppola has more than ...

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 ...

This is no lie: Pinocchio is one of the most popular characters in children’s literature. It’s true, the little wooden puppet with a penchant for lying has become an Italian icon and now the subject ...

When deciding on its next live-action remake, Disney went back in the vault to its second animated film classic: 1940’s “Pinocchio,” the fairy tale musical about a puppet brought to life who wants to ...