Jim Henson News

Sprout today announced several new network programs including Ruff-Ruff, Tweet & Dave and the second season of The Chica Show, as part of the 24-hour preschool network's growing line-up of new series.

Experience a friendship that weathers all seasons in the Tony-nominated musical A Year with Frog and Toad, April 26-May 12 at The Rose Theater. This whimsical show follows the cheerful Frog and the grumpy Toad through four seasons of swimming, baking cookies, raking leaves and sledding, as they learn life lessons on the way.

24-hour preschool television channel Sprout scored its highest rated first quarter in the history of the network averaging a coverage area 0.24 rating/ 128k homes. The record first quarter also marked the sixth consecutive quarter of year over year double digit household percentage growth.

After four weeks of online voting at makeamusical.org, five schools emerged as winners of NBC's "Smash" Make a Musical Constructed by Lowe's initiative. The winning schools will each receive a grand prize gift certificate to Lowe's to make renovations to their school theaters.

Syfy announced today it is developing miniseries based on two of science fiction's greatest novels: Larry Niven's Ringworld and Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End. They join the previously announced Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle from Ridley Scott's Scott Free Productions, writer/executive producer Frank Spotnitz, Headline Pictures and FremantleMedia International, Stephen King's Eyes of the Dragon, from Universal Cable Productions (UCP) and Ostar Productions, and Darkfall, also from UCP and Jim Henson Productions, as long form productions.

The New York Philharmonic will present A Dancer's Dream: Two Works by Stravinsky, a multidisciplinary, theatrical reimagining of the ballets The Fairy's Kiss and Petrushka, created by Giants Are Small. Sara Mearns, New York City Ballet principal dancer, will star in the production, which will be conducted by Music Director Alan Gilbert, directed and designed by Doug Fitch, choreographed by Karole Armitage, and produced by Edouard Getaz - Thursday, June 27, 2013, at 7:30 p.m.; Friday, June 28 at 8:00 p.m.; and Saturday, June 29 at 8:00 p.m.

Maryland Ensemble Theatre's (MET) family theatre, The Fun Company, is proud to present the World Premiere of My Monster and Me, a funny, touching tale about a young boy and his unlikely friend, the monster that lives under his bed!

STUFFED AND UNSTRUNG (Uncensored) is a live uncensored show that lets loose the perilous and provocative elements ofcomedic improvisation on stage with a bunch of puppets. This one-of-a-kind comedy made for grown-ups is playing at Kingsbury Hall on the University of Utah campus tonight, April 4 at 7:30 PM.

For the first time ever, The Jim Henson Company's Pajanimals are packing their bags and hitting the road to bring a brand new live musical production to DPAC, Durham Performing Arts Center, in Durham, NC today, April 3.

Runaway Stage Productions presents AVENUE Q now playing through March 31, 2013 at the West Sacramento Community Center's Black Box Theater.

Opening the festival is Monkey: Journey to the West, an extraordinary music theater collaboration based on the classic Chinese folktale 'Journey to the West' which dates to 1592.

Among the network's first six greenlit series is 'HitRECord on TV!,' a re-imagination of the variety show from director/creator/star Joseph Gordon-Levitt and executive producer Brian Graden.

Center for Puppetry Arts has announced its upcoming 2013-2014 season. To celebrate its milestone 35th anniversary, the Center will continue its tradition of presenting great storytelling through puppetry, including innovative adaptations and dynamic new works by the Center's company, as well as acclaimed artists from across the U.S.

SID THE SCIENCE KID: THE MOVIE, a co-production with The Jim Henson Company and Chinese partners Nine Eyes Stone Pictures and Shanghai Animation Film Studios Group, is making its broadcast premiere on PBS KIDS today, March 25

Unified Pictures, the Los Angeles based film production and finance company has tapped two of Hollywood's most illustrious animators, Academy Award nominee John Stevenson ('Kung Fu Panda," "Shrek") and Cameron Hood ("Megamind," "First Flight") for the company's CG-animated feature "Noah's Ark."

From May 23 to July 7, 2013, The Walt Disney Family Museum presents the special exhibition Maurice Sendak: 50 Years, 50 Works, 50 Reasons, featuring 50 works by the legendary author and illustrator, accompanied by 50 statements from celebrities, authors, and noted personalities on the influence of Sendak's work. These works will be on display at The Walt Disney Family Museum, an interactive museum in San Francisco, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Sendak's universally revered book, Where the Wild Things Are.

The Obie Award-winning and Drama Desk-nominated Wakka Wakka Productions presents the World Premiere of SAGA, written by Kirjan Waage and Gwendolyn Warnock, with assistance from the SAGA ensemble, and directed by Kirjan Waage and Gwendolyn Warnock. SAGA features original puppets by Kirjan Waage and original masks by Gwendolyn Warnock. BroadwayWorld has new photos from the production below!

Omaha Performing Arts is packing more than 100 performances with dozens of Tony and Grammy Award-winners into seven great series for its 2013/2014 season.

STUFFED AND UNSTRUNG (Uncensored) is a live uncensored show that lets loose the perilous and provocative elements ofcomedic improvisation on stage with a bunch of puppets. This one-of-a-kind comedy made for grown-ups is playing at Kingsbury Hall on the University of Utah campus on Thursday, April 4 at 7:30 PM.

Thirty schools from across the country have been selected as finalists in NBC's "Smash" Make a Musical Constructed by Lowe's initiative to improve school theater facilities. The schools will compete to receive the most online votes at makeamusical.org by Wednesday, April 10 in order to receive one of five grand prize gift certificates to Lowe's for their renovations.