The Marie Hitchcock Puppet Theater is celebrating 79 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 Puppets have labored all year, and are taking Labor Day Weekend off!
They hope you have a great, relaxing weekend!
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FreddyToons!
September 12-13
Freddy is back with a new concept.... Puppets and Cartoons! Freddy is an Influencer, as well as a Star of several short movies... but did you know he loves Cartoons and has starred in several?
Come see what the hoopla is all about!
This show has flashing lights and loud sounds!
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CURIE O' KATT
A Whole World To Measure!
September 19-20, 26-27
Follow the n-dimensional Curie O' Katt the Schrodinger cat and her friends from the Sandwich Family Mansion as they take a deep dive into the universe itself at every scale you can think of, and a few you can't. So prepare yourself for a molecular spectacular at an astronomical scale, from the weird and wonderful world of subatomic particles to exploding supernovae, this strange Schrodinger's Cat who refuses to lay flat will never rest until she has figured out how this universe works, and what a restless creature she is!
Experience Paige Annabelle Turner's "Mini Theater": hand-drawn illustrations-turned-puppets that play with perspective, light, and optical illusions to get the point across, captured in real-time on camera and broadcast onto a projector screen like a live-action cartoon. You can see the puppeteer perform the act in front of your very eyes. No two performances are the same!
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Hallowtoons!
October 3-4
Its the frightful season, and of course Freddy is at the ready to scare! Following up on his success from FreddyToons!, Freddy found some great Halloween cartoons to share... as well as bringing in some new friends to help out!
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