The Marie Hitchcock Puppet Theater is celebrating 78 years! It was established as a puppet theater in 1947. We are located in Balboa Park, San Diego, California.
The Puppet Theater, originally called the Hollywood Building, then the Palisades Building, was one of the buildings constructed for the California Pacific International Exposition of 1935-36. The Exposition was organized to celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal. The theater still runs weekly live performances for thousands of guests each year with various forms of puppetry, and showcases performers from all over.
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The Farley Country Revue
September 27-28
Saturday and Sunday ONLY!
Clap your hands, Stomp your feet and jam on to that music for its the Farley Country Revue! A Jambaroo cast of critters right out of the Grand Old Opera! And, of course, we cant forget our main host of the show, our Master of Ceremonies, Farley Barnyard!
Full of songs of love, comedy, and Kooky Critter Craziness!
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Halloween is upon us!
Haunted Shows for October!
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It's Dollyween!
October 4-5, 10-12
Petrix and Dolly have figured out how to sneak outside the Sandwich Family Mansion whenever they want from wicked Mother Sandwich. Together with their old friends, they meet Hay Girl and the Pumpkinettes, who are running the abandoned pumpkin farm next door. Someone had to take care of this garden! She used to be a scarecrow, but why would she ever want to scare hungry little birds? Maybe Mother Sandwich could learn a thing or two!
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For the Adults!
Dollyween: AFTER DARKNESS
Saturday, October 4 & 11
6:00PM!
Join Petrix in a descent into madness as she tries to make her various animals come back to life in time for Show And Tell. Her success is frequent but temporary, and she may not be able to hold all the pieces of the act together - just like her last several girlfriends!
Leave the kids at home for this one as the dollies really like to let it out at this hour, and we've got to keep Hay Girl away from the moonshine!
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Return to Spooky Hollow
October 18-19 ONLY!
Everyone’s favorite pumpkins are back, just in time for Halloween! Come along with Gordy,
Squash and Calabaza as they try to top last year’s Spooky Hollow party and meet lots of
fun folks along the way. This is an all-ages hybrid shadow and live puppet show with music,
songs, and audience shout-outs!
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Steve Taylor's
Ghouls Goblins & Giggles Show
Saturday and Sunday Only!
11am and 2 pm ONLY!
Halloween hilarity is back! Bring the whole family for Halloween hi-jinks with Magical Ventriloquist Steve Taylor. Steve's non-scary tongue-in-cheek hysterically-haywire "Ghouls, Goblins & Giggles Show" will be performed live at the Marie Hitchcock Balboa Park Puppet Theater October 25 and 26, 2025 at 11am and 2pm each day.
Popular Puppet Theater entertainer Steve Taylor returns to delight and enchant your whole family with his eye-popping comedy magic, a surprise "magical marionette" appearance, audience participation and ventriloquist dummy Rudy O'Riley comically reviews "Trick or Treating" safety tips. Magic, marionettes and ventriloquism will combine to enchant your "little ghouls" and "boos," and excite their anticipation about this favorite time of the year, Halloween.
Endorsed by classic "monsters," here's what they're saying; "So funny, it drove me batty!" (Dracula), "I howled with laughter!" (Wolfman) and "The whole thing kept me in stitches!" (Frankenstein).
So, don't get "tricked," instead experience a real "treat" of fun by making memories with your whole family at Steve Taylor's "Ghouls, Goblins & Giggles Show" October 25 and 26 2025 at 11am and 2pm each day at The Marie Hitchcock Balboa Park Puppet Theater in San Diego.
Reserve your tickets today. Appropriate for the whole family aged 3 to 103. Hauntingly hilarious!Steve Taylor has been a professional performer since the age of eight. He has performed shows in every major American city and all 50 states. He has been a featured performer on America's Got Talent, Comedy Central, The Magic Castle and at Disneyland. As his audiences have learned, "You Can Trust A Taylor To Keep You In Stitches!"
Tickets for this show are $10 General Admission, $7 Senior and Military!
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See our Schedule Page for shows for the rest of the year!!
Looking for a Gift of Puppetry? Buy a Gift Ticket! Gift Tickets are for our General Admission or Senior/Military Admission! Ticket is good for our regular shows! Special Events and Adult Events are not included!
$5 General Admission, $4 Senior Military
Gift Certificates are also available at our Box Office!
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Workshops!
Want to know the difference between Hand, Marionette, Shadow and Full Body Puppetry?
Want to learn how to write a story?
Want to get away from the crazy world and do something creative?
Bring out the wild and crazy?
Then our workshops are for you!
San Diego’s Balboa Park Puppet Guild
is going to offer beginning workshops in
Puppetry in 2024!
If you are interested, please email us at
balboaparkpuppets@yahoo.com
for more information!
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