Sesame Street is headed for a detour, but the path forward isn’t exactly clear. The long-running children’s show, which first introduced young audiences to Big Bird, Bert and Ernie in 1969 ...

Caroll Spinney, who gave Big Bird his warmth and Oscar the Grouch his growl for nearly 50 years on “Sesame Street,” died Sunday at the age of 85 at his home in Connecticut, according to the ...

“Here, they created a street and a community that closely resembles what kids experience,” says Jeffrey D. Dunn, who arrived to run Sesame Workshop ... realizes that Big Bird’s defining ...

There’s been a lot of lip flapping going on during the past month or so about Big Bird’s owner, Sesame Workshop.

Big Bird (L) and other Sesame Street puppet charactors pose next to temporarty street sign November 9, 2009 at West 64th Street and Broadway in New York on the eve of the 40th anniversary of the ...

Danielle, Este and Alana Haim are reinventing the alphabet song — with the Muppets of Sesame Street! The sister trio ... the ABCs alongside Elmo, Big Bird, Cookie Monster, Burt, Ernie, Oscar ...

U.S.A.I.D. Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind “Sesame Street,” is confronting what executives have described as a “perfect storm” of problems. Credit...Mark Lennihan/Associated Press ...

As a kid, you likely spent a lot of time learning your ABCs from characters like Cookie Monster, Big Bird, Elmo, and Oscar the Grouch. "Sesame Street" has been on the air since 1969, and has ...