In Modern Media
- Author/artist Edward Gorey designed a mass-produced toy theater based on his set designs for the 1977 stage production of Dracula.
- A toy theater is featured at the beginning of Ingmar Bergman's award-winning 1982 film Fanny and Alexander.
- Carroll Ballard and Maurice Sendak's 1986 film version of The Nutcracker featured toy theater.
- Set Designer Heidi Landesman based her designs for the 1991 musical The Secret Garden on toy theatres.
- Julie Taymor used toy theater puppets in a scene for the 2002 film Frida.
- Sean Meredith's comedic Dante's Inferno (2007) is an entire toy theater film.
- Toy theaters are a motif in a number of Jan Švankmajer's films.
- A toy theater is featured at the conclusion of Terry Gilliam's 2009 film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, both as a feature of the plot and the format of the end credits.
- In the 2011 horror-themed video game, Shadows of the Damned, players battle against a demon in a toy theater like screen with characters appearing as toy theater puppets for the level.
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