5 Theatres You Need to Know: Puppet Theatres in NYC - Where to see marionettes and other puppets on stage, including cutting-edge shows for grown-ups
Where to see marionettes and other puppets on stage, including cutting-edge shows for grown-ups---The heyday of the year-round, brick-and-mortar puppet theatre may have passed with the closing of Greenwich Village's Bil Baird Marionette Theater, where I got my first job, at age 11, as an usher. But you can still find plenty of puppets on NYC stages. There are two tiny theatres that remain dedicated to puppetry, one i…