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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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
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NO Shows Friday February 20 and Saturday February 21
Asian Story Theater
Presents
The Great Horse of Mongolia
February 22, 2026
11am ONLY
The Chinese zodiac provides the basis for this year’s folktale celebrating the bold and playful YEAR OF THE HORSE as one of the animals in Lunar New Year tradition. The story features a beautiful and bittersweet Mongolian folktale about a young boy and his extraordinary horse, stolen away by an envious Warlord, but ultimately immortalized in the voice of the Morin Khuur, “horse fiddle” in Mongolian. Performance features this unique instrument performed live.
The Freddy Show!
February 28 and March 1
Saturday and Sunday Only!
Continuing the antics of Freddy as he tries to give the best comedy show ever, but finds out that is not as simple as he thought! Mishaps occur, including almost being eaten by a Lion!
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Gee Golliest: It's The Very Dolliest!
Part 2!
March 6-8
Mother Sandwich is bedridden, and has invited her brother, Uncle Ham, to help look after the enormous Sandwich Family Mansion. Petrix wanted to look after the house herself, but she and her poppets keep getting lost in the walls, halls, basements, and attics. Uncle Ham shows them how the strange house is put together and they learn that cleaning and helping is much easier if you ask the right people for help. He knew her grandparents very well; they taught him everything he knows!
Join Petrix and her poppets as she and Dolly catch ghosts and set them free, find buried treasure, and learn more about their strange roots of their family tree!
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