As the Center for Puppetry Arts continues its summer program honoring Sesame Street and The Muppets, the venue will host a one-night-only screening of the documentary, Jim Henson: Idea Man, at 6 p.m. Aug. 10, with a talkback with Karen Falk to follow.
The Henson documentary takes a deep dive into the mind of the man behind Sesame Street and The Muppet Show, showing his early beginnings puppeteering on local TV stations and how he rose to build a puppet empire.
In the film, director Ron Howard delivers a fascinating and insightful look at a complex man whose boundless imagination inspired the world.
Falk has served as the archives director and historian for The Jim Henson Company and has been vice president of The Jim Henson Legacy for more than 30 years. She is the author of Imagination Illustrated: The Jim Henson Journal and the main contributor to the Jim Henson Company website “Jim’s Red Book.”
For more information, visit puppet.org.
Photo: The late Jim Henson with his Muppet, Kermit the Frog.
