From the Broadway stage to the cheapest television network to some surprisingly decent adult productions (“Dickens” is right ...
There's a manic chicken running across the stage, and she sounds like Mrs. Doubtfire. A hand puppet with bulging eyes and a loud, silly cackle, she is called Little Red Hen, and today she and her ...
Like a former Hollywood heavyweight who finds himself typecast in made-for-TV movies, the Muppets believed they had lost all relevancy. Miss Piggy found herself working long hours for French Vogue in ...
Although The Muppet Show was set in a New York theater, the series was actually shot in Britain since no American production companies bought into the idea. But Sir Lew Grade was willing to give Jim ...
More than ever, we need a world where a pig can be romantically linked to a frog. A world where no one finds it odd that Jason Segel's little brother is a puppet, and they share a room with twin beds ...
The Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, NY is home to The Jim Henson Exhibition, which includes a Kermit the Frog puppet from 1974. Kermit was one of Henson’s first characters. Photo by Madeline ...
It might seem counterintuitive — especially since his oeuvre eventually included shows like “Fraggle Rock” and “Muppet Babies” — but Jim Henson never intended for the Muppets to be exclusively kids’ ...