Lying next to a giant Frankenstein monster’s head one night in 1996, under the stage at Steppenwolf Theatre, I was told by a man named Blair Thomas, “We are aware that we are making things that people ...

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That’s exactly what Brian Henson was going for when he started “Puppet Up! Uncensored,” a live comedy improv show that features Jim Henson Company puppets doing things no respectable Muppet would ever ...

These early Jim Henson puppets (you might recognize the frog on the right) appeared in a local Washington, D.C. television show “Sam and Friends” that ran from 1955 to 1961. Headed by Kermit, Henson’s ...

With “Muppet Babies” returning to the air, Frank Oz starring in “Muppet Guys Talking,” a new puppet murder mystery coming from the Jim Henson Company and ventriloquist comedian Jeff Dunham in town, we ...