That great American acting company, the Muppets, returns once again to television in the 10-part series “The Muppets Mayhem,” premiering Wednesday on Disney+. Like any company of contract players, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Simon is a Los Angeles-based journalist who covers film and TV. In what is being described as "a Willy Wonka moment," the Jim ...

Standing in front of a small crowd of Muppet enthusiasts, actress and Sesame Street veteran Jennifer Barnhart demonstrated how to perform with three different types of puppets. First came Tillie, a ...

Disney's up-and-down handling of the Muppets hits a new rocky patch, as the studio prepares to re-align the Muppets' place at Disney World. Reading time 2 minutes When Disney began teasing a raft of ...

Jane Ann Nebel loved the Nativity scene beneath her parents’ Christmas tree. As a young child in St. Albans, Queens, she often played with the ceramic figurines — cradling the Baby Jesus in her palm, ...

You could say Kathryn Mullen was Yoda’s right-hand woman. It takes at least two people to manipulate a glove puppet, and while the great Frank Oz operated the little green Jedi master’s head and left ...

Gregory J.M. Kasunich knew things were working out for his puppet movie, “Meeting Your Maker,” when he forgot that his The ...

The cuddly Muppets we loved as kids have grown up and morphed into outrageous characters that like to talk trash. 5:28 p.m. July 18, 2026An earlier version of this post incorrectly said the “Puppet Up ...