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 ...

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 ...

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When the Russian version of “Sesame Street” (“Ulitsa Sezam”) first aired in Russia in October 1996, there was a premiere event at a Moscow theater. The star muppet came out — Zeliboba, an 8ft ...

In the early 1990s, following the historic collapse of the Soviet Union, American senators and executives from Sesame Workshop, the company that produces popular children’s television show Sesame ...

It was when the man who had promised to broadcast her show on one of Russia’s top TV networks was murdered that Natasha Lance Rogoff realized she wasn’t in Kansas anymore. Sure, this wasn’t the first ...

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 ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author and producer Natasha Rogoff explained the conflict with the use of puppets in the Russia production of Ulitsa Sezam (Sesame Street).

Emotion Pictures, the newly launched English-language commercial film banner from Vendôme Group, Pathé and Merit France, will ...

Author, American television producer and filmmaker Natasha Lance Rogoff brought the Muppets to the Russia. In her debut book, Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street ...