The Muppets don’t rap or bust hip-hop moves. That in itself is almost revolutionary nowadays, when adorable family-franchise characters spitting bars seems practically de rigueur. True, Chris Cooper ...

“Jim Henson: The Biography” (Ballantine Books), by Brian Jay Jones. If ever you had a single question about the felt magic Jim Henson managed to create, chances are Brian Jay Jones’ sweeping new ...

"It's time to play the music. It's time to light the lights. It's time to meet the Muppets on The Muppet Show tonight." For five years, those lyrics and the theme song they begin played before vast ...

Disney is going all in on the Muppets after tearing down the Muppet Courtyard at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. Now the Muppets are appearing on Broadway with magician Rob Lake for the holidays! The show ...

The Muppets took Manhattan in 1984, moviewise, but they have never appeared on Broadway, even though that was a long-held ambition of their father, Jim Henson. I thought Henson’s puppets were going to ...

It’s easy to confuse fuzzy juvenile recollections of watching Sesame Street with shameful ones of being caught, at age nine, enjoying Barney and Friends by an older brother. It all falls into that ...

Now, along comes the delightful and wacky "The Muppets," and it's more than inventive and funny enough to erase memories of 1999's disappointing "Muppets From Space," the last Muppets film. In "The ...

The new Muppet show will debut at Magic Kingdom on Oct. 2, Walt Disney World has announced. “The Muppets Present … Great Moments in American History” will be staged near the Hall of Presidents in the ...

This book cover image released by Ballantine Books shows "Jim Henson: The Biography," by Brian Jay Jones. (AP Photo/Ballantine Books) "Jim Henson: The Biography" (Ballantine Books), by Brian Jay Jones ...