It's the end of an era for "Sesame Street": Sonia Manzano--Maria for more than four decades--is retiring from the beloved children's program. News of Manzano's departure arrived in the form of a tweet ...

Sonia Manzano's acting career began when she was in the original cast of Godspell — a musical which began as a student production on campus,... For the last 44 years, you could ask Maria how to get to ...

In 1971, Sonia Manzano was in her early 20s. She was a junior in college, studying acting. She had just gone back home to New York for her first gig, which was a role in an off-Broadway musical called ...

María, TV wife of Luis, with whom she runs the Fix It Shop on America's best known street, Sesame Street, is exiting the stage of Big Bird, The Count and Elmo. Though she's more accustomed to hearing ...

Long before “Sesame Street” premiered, Sonia Manzano lived there — minus the Muppets. Manzano spent 44 years on the beloved children’s show as Maria, joining two years after its 1969 debut that showed ...

NPR's history show, Throughline, takes us back to 1969 and the creation of the children's TV show Sesame Street.

Some of my first words happened because Sonia Manzano was talking to me through the TV. “Uno, dos, tres,” she would cheerfully sing, instructing the children onscreen to follow her lead. “Cuatro, ...