Season two of Alma’s Way starts on PBS Kids September 18, and the season premiere has a special guest in the voice cast. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor plays herself. The show is about six-year ...

Sonia Manzano is a legend of kids TV. She got her big break in 1971, as a junior at Carnegie Mellon. Sonia had gone back home to New York for her first gig in an off-Broadway play. While she was there ...

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 ...

S is for Sonia. Sonia Manzano, that is. You might know her better as Maria, the character she played on "Sesame Street" for 44 years. CAROLL SPINNEY: (As Big Bird) Hi, Maria. MANZANO: (As Maria) Ready ...

After 44 years as the loveable Maria on Sesame Street, Sonia Manzano thought she was finally ready to move to a quieter, non-puppet inhabited neighborhood where she could spend her days writing ...

Sonia Manzano, 65, played Maria on TV’s “Sesame Street” for 44 years. She won 15 Emmys as a writer for the show and one for Lifetime Achievement. She is author of “Becoming Maria: A Memoir” ...

As much as she loves Boston, Sonia Manzano has had two missed opportunities to spend time here. The Emmy Award-winning actress and author, who played Maria on “Sesame Street” for more than 40 years ...