The 80-minute tours of the New York City workshop founded by 'The Muppets' creator Jim Henson offer a behind-the-scenes look at puppet making. Tickets start at $150.

The 1986 film "Labyrinth" showcased Jim Henson's vision for darker fantasy storytelling beyond The Muppets. Directed by ...

Brian Jay Jones spent years researching the life of Jim Henson, interviewing family members, performers and longtime collaborators for his bestselling 2013 book, "Jim Henson: The Biography." In a ...

About five years before he published "Jim Henson: The Biography," author Brian Jay Jones found himself going down a rabbit hole online. Jones, who describes himself as part of the “Muppet Generation,” ...

Celebrated, Mississippi-born puppeteer Jim Henson died in 1990, but his name is still alive through the Muppets.

Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets, spent his early childhood in the Mississippi Delta. The frogs in Deer Creek near his childhood home are said to be the inspiration for Kermit the Frog. The first ...

Just off a particularly busy stretch of Long Island City’s Northern Boulevard, on an upper floor of an old commercial building, quietly sits a behemoth of the puppetry world: Jim Henson’s Creature ...

Along with Steve Urkel’s high-pitched confession “Did I do that?” and Joey Tribiani’s surprisingly suave come-on “How you doin’?,” one of the most recognizable sitcom catchphrases of the ‘90s was, ...

It's the kind of place where anything is possible, like a talking tree puppet saying hello as you pass by. And that's how the folks at the Jim Henson Creature Shop in Long Island City, Queens like it.

Two years after Jim Henson died in 1990, his family drove north through New Mexico searching for a spot he had once pointed out from the car — the pyramid-shaped hills near Taos where he’d said, ...

Jim Henson's Muppets always had a special sense of humor. In a video from the archives of The Jim Henson Company, the Muppets creator's wife, Jane Henson, explains how their signature snark came to be ...