David J. Syrotiak didn't need to pull any strings to move the National Marionette Theatre from Vermont to Erie. The decision was a no-brainer after Mariana, his wife, became director of the English-as ...

With two versions of Carlo Collodi’s The Adventures of Pinocchio hitting the screens, now is as good a time as any to look at the naughty marionette’s journey from a log of wood to a real boy. The ...

Pinocchio’s Marionette Theater in Altamonte Springs will close at the end of July, director Sean Keohane says. Attendance and donations dropped off last fall and have never truly recovered, he said.

Pinocchio was written in the late 19th century by Carlo Collodi, first as a serial and later as a children’s book. Everyone knows the story (or the 1940 Disney animated movie of the same name), but we ...