Danny Seagren, the Jim Henson-trained puppeteer who occasionally portrayed Big Bird on Sesame Street and played the first ...

Danny Seagren, a famed puppeteer who portrayed Big Bird on Sesame Street, has died at the age of 81. He also starred as the first live-action Spider-Man on The Electric Company.  His family announced ...

Making learning fun and engaging young children can be difficult, but for more than 40 years Sesame Street has been teaching kids about shapes, numbers and the power of imagination. Now, the energy ...

When "Sesame Street" was created in 1969, it was a test - could television teach children? The program was developed with lower-income families in mind, and the set was meant to represent a block in ...

Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. The road to Sesame Street goes straight through Astoria, Queens, to an ...

Danny Seagren, a “Sesame Street” puppeteer who also appeared as an early iteration of Spider-Man on “The Electric Company,” ...