The magic of a marionette show is more than puppets on strings. It’s an open door to another world, where the strings seem to disappear. Dan Baginski and Barbara Paulson, of the No Strings Marionettes ...

The puppet can be an old sock pulled over a hand, an intricate kinetic sculpture or a piece of paper throwing its shadow on a wall. Utilitarian to their core, puppets are meant to be used, often in ...