State Puppet Theatre Stara Zagora has 48 years history. More than 250 performances by Bulgarian and foreign authors, writing for children, have been produced. State Puppet Theatre is a repertoire theatre with state financing.

State Puppet Theatre Stara Zagora have its own building, stages (open-air and covered stages) and atelier. The Theatre is leader between the puppet theatres, with his artistic and financial results. The awards, which it received in the last years, are measure for the high professional level of the artistic staff. The Theatre had been on a tour in Russia, Yugoslavia, Poland, The Czech Republic, Algeria, Iran, Iraq, Tunisia, Spain, Germany, France, Cyprus, Austria. He is the organizer of International Puppet Theatre for Adults Festival “PIERROT”.

State Puppet Theatre - Stara Zagora is opened in 1957. Its first headmaster was Petar Dobchev, Peter Aleksandrov - a director, Kosta Valkov and Denka Dimova - actors.

For the passed 45 years were shown more than 250 plays by Bulgarian and foreign authors, visited by 3 million people. Here were shown for the first time plays by Nikolay Haitov, Valery Petrov, Rada Moskova and many others. Hundreds of actors played on the stage of Stara Zagora Puppet House. A lot of foreign and Bulgarian groups have played here and spread out the glory of our town in many countries all over the world.

It is a state theatre. There are 16 plays in the theatre list for 2001, that guarantee arrangemens for every actor and atrraction for the audience in Stara Zagora, in the country and abroad.