Car bombings, death threats and free market economics are not the first thing that come to mind when one thinks of Sesame Street. But that's exactly what the woman tasked with bringing the beloved ...

With the title Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia, the new book by Natasha Lance Rogoff promises a lot. Could the saga of Rogoff’s work on creating ...

In the early 1990s just after the Soviet Union’s collapse, a PBS documentary producer was selected by a bipartisan group in Congress to bring one of America’s most iconic children’s shows to the ...

In her book "Muppets in Moscow," Natasha Lance Rogoff pulls back the Iron Curtain on what it was like to work in Russia as a TV producer in the 1990’s. There were absolute triumphs of Big Bird ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author and producer Natasha Rogoff talked about culture and the development of Ulitsa Sezam, Russia's Sesame Street program. Author and producer ...

When the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, producers, artists, writers and other creative people became involved in creating culture for what they imagined would be a new, more open society. Natasha ...

The inspiring story of bringing Sesame Street to Russia involved attempted assassinations and numerous headaches for its American executive producer. Overcoming financial and cultural obstacles proved ...

Natasha Lance Rogoff is the author of ‘Muppets in Moscow: The Crazy Unexpected True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia’ Natasha Lance Rogoff studied in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) in college, ...

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 ...

"Ulitsa Sezam," the Russian co-production of Sesame Street, first aired in 1996. When the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, producers, artists, writers and other creative people became involved in ...