Mountain Lion sighting at Bob Baker Day (photo by Emily Bucholz)
It’s the last weekend of summer and we are going out in style with the Bob Baker Marionette Theater in celebration of their 12th annual Bob Baker Day!
See you within LA State Historic Park on September 20th for a full day of honoring the historic legacy of our dear Bob Baker Marionette Theater, the longest running puppet theater in the country. There’s revelry, puppet shows, live music, games, vendors of all varieties, people on stilts, David Arquette’s Bozo The Clown, and so much joyous absurdity to heal the heart. Previous years we’ve been treated to Grand Marshals like brilliant Imagineer Bob Gurr, the late Sid Krofft (Land of the Lost, H.R. Pufnstuf), DJ Lance Rock of Yo Gabba Gabba!, Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio, and last year’s iconic appearance from Spongebob & Patrick.
For this 12th annual Bob Baker Day we’re once again helping to program the Hooray LA! stage and sprinkling some friends into the mix of roaming performances. We’re partnering with our buds at SOLARPUNKS to solar power all three stages of Bob Baker Day and give our own batteries some much deserved rest.
Come say hi! We’ll be running sound all day and have a very special series of performances planned.
Hooray LA! Stage Schedule
10:30a: Holy Pepperoni Presents: The Lost Half Hour
11:15a: Holy Pepperoni Presents: The Lost Half Hour
12:15p: Aaron Shaw
1:15p: Kid Row
2:15p: Logan Hone’s Feeling Fireworks
3:15p: Nicole McCabe
4:15p: Jonny Kosmo with Freak Nature Puppets
Bob Baker Marionette Theater is an iconic Los Angeles institution that has served our communities with creativity, joy, and imagination since 1963. They are the longest continuous running puppet theater in the United State, a designated Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument, and for more than 60 years have worked to preserve, educate, and innovate at the intersection of Puppetry and the Allied Arts.
The Bob Baker Marionette Theater is home to more than 3,000 puppets, one of LA’s greatest archives of both puppet history and novelty music, and have played an essential role in entertainment culture outside of the theater having worked on everything from Mister Rogers Neighborhood to Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
In addition to collaborating on concerts together within their historic theater, Living Earth has been a production partner for Bob Baker Day at LA State Historic Park since 2024.