Schedule
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Standard Shows Friday, Saturday and Sunday 11AM, 1PM, 3PM Special Shows Saturday and Sunday |
Show Prices General Admission: $5.00 Also: $7.00/$5.00 $10.00/$7.00 |
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Performances2025 |
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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!
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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Celebration of Marie Hitchcock's Birthday
Dia de Los Muertos
October 31, November 1-2
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Kitty City
November 7-9
Come to Kitty City, where you get to hear fun stories about cats! There's Country Kitty/City Kitty, plus a story on how kittys' got their Purr! Fun for all ages!
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Story Time with Santa Claus
Saturday and Sunday ONLY
November 15-16
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Zhuri's Pet Project
November 21-23, 28-30
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December Nights
Friday and Saturday, December 5-6
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A Christmas Musical
(without Puppets!)
December 12-14
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TBA
December 19-21
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Steve Taylor's "Magical Marionettes"
December 26, 2PM ONLY!
December 27-28 11AM & 2PM ONLY!
Marie Hitchcock's apprentice Steve Taylor returns to The Marie Hitchcock Balboa Park Puppet Theater for a fourth straight year
of holiday hilarity and hijinks. His family-friendly comedy "Magical Marionettes Variety Show" celebrates the holidays from Friday
December 26 through Sunday December 28, 2025 with shows on Friday December 26 at 2pm (only) and at 11am and 2pm on Saturday and
Sunday the 27th and 28th.
Audiences will once again be enchanted by the antics of "Charlie and his precocious puppy Daisy," "Ellie The Water-Squirting
Baby Elephant," "Kiddie Kong & his Rollicking Rock & Roll Guitar," "Bones The Singing Skeleton & his Back-Up Singers The
Craniums," "Skittles The Jovial Juggling and Unicycling Clown," and "Carmello The Cowardly Stunt Camel." Additionally, "Snafu
The Snazzy Snake Charmer, a new marionette creation, will make his world premiere at the performances. Plus, audience favorite
ventriloquist dummy Rudy O'Riley will be back to make a "magical" appearance.
"Experiencing the art of live puppetry should be a treasured and magical part of every child's life," believes Taylor. "But the
opportunities to actually see live marionettes performed are getting fewer and fewer. San Diego is blessed to have a venue
like the Marie Hitchcock Balboa Park Puppet Theater, where all ages can still wonderfully be entertained by live puppetry on a
weekly basis." He continued, "Additionally, since live marionette shows are so rare, every parent should ensure their child
experiences the enchantment of stringed puppetry at least once in their lifetime."
Magical Ventriloquist Steve Taylor has been delighting and enchanting audiences for over 55 years nationwide and has been a
featured performer at Disneyland, on Comedy Central, on America's Got Talent, and at The Magic Castle in Hollywood. His
"Magical Marionettes" feature the same clever and comical shenanigans that his audiences have come to love from his comedy
magic and ventriloquism.
Tickets for this captivating comedy cavalcade December 26 to 28 are $10/per person, ($7 for military and seniors, plus discounts
for large groups) and are available at the door or in advance at the theater's website, BalboaParkPuppets.com.
Appropriate for ages 3 to 103. Each performance will last approximately 40 minutes. Box office and doors open 15 minutes prior to each performance.
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January 2-4, 2026
The Puppets are taking a Mini Vacation after the Holidays!
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January 9-11, 16-18, 2026
Another Dolly Adventure!
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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!
$7 General Admission, $5 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!
If you are interested, please email us at
balboaparkpuppets@yahoo.com
for more information!
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