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Stephen Sondheim

Proof Emily Blunt Can Handle Her Next Big Role

The Huffington Post | Christopher Rosen | Posted 05.17.2013 | Entertainment

Emily Blunt could be the latest big name headed into the woods for "Into The Woods," Rob Marshall's increasingly star-studded adaptation of Stephen So...

First Nighter: "Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812" Doesn't Quite Zoom Across the Tuner Sky

David Finkle | Posted 05.18.2013 | Arts
David Finkle

Call it "interactive." Call it "immersive." Call it whatever contemporary term you will. Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812--the musical n...

Chris Pine's Unexpected New Role

Posted 05.15.2013 | Entertainment

Chris Pine is back in theaters this weekend with "Star Trek Into Darkness," but don't expect him to jump back into the captain's chair for the likely ...

Together With Meryl Streep?

Posted 04.26.2013 | Entertainment

Johnny Depp may soon head into the woods. According to Variety, the megastar is attached to the upcoming Disney adaptation of the popular Stephen Sond...

Standing On An Important Stage

Howard Sherman | Posted 04.12.2013 | Arts
Howard Sherman

I have seen Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd many times over the years, probably more than any single show. It has thrilled me, scared me, impressed me...

Except Sometimes: Chatting with Molly Ringwald

Mike Ragogna | Posted 04.08.2013 | Entertainment
Mike Ragogna

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Stephen Sondheim Receives HUGE Honor

AP | Posted 04.01.2013 | Arts

NEW YORK -- Stephen Sondheim has won one of the top honors in the arts world, the Edward MacDowell Medal for lifetime achievement. The MacDowell Colo...

Theater: Gem-like Passion, Charming Carousel and Vanessa Redgrave in The Revisionist

Michael Giltz | Posted 05.01.2013 | Entertainment
Michael Giltz

Revisit a classic and you're sure to discover new facets. That's certainly the case with this gem-like production by Classic Stage Company. Its intimate space is ideal for shining a light on Stephen Sondheim's 1994 masterpiece Passion.

Stage Door: Passion, Katie Roche

Fern Siegel | Posted 04.30.2013 | Arts
Fern Siegel

The intimacy and richness of Sondheim's sensitive score and James Lapine's book explore the nature of loneliness and the dangers of kindness. Love can enrapture, degrade and liberate. Who better to capture those nuances than Sondheim?

Playright David Ives: The Degrees of Separation Between Stephen Sondheim, Roman Polanski and Me

Myra Chanin | Posted 04.09.2013 | Arts
Myra Chanin

Before I reveal all 10,003 degrees of separation between Sondheim and me, let me assure you that it's all in the timing, which also happens to be the ...

Easy Reader: Recommending Michael Feinstein on the Gershwins and Him, Gary Marmorstein on Lorenz Hart

David Finkle | Posted 03.01.2013 | Books
David Finkle

Ostensibly, what Feinstein is offering in his book is, as its title promises, a prolonged glimpse into his life as a devoted George and Ira Gershwin protegé.

Len Cariou, Broadway's Original Sweeney Todd, Reveals His Canadian Roots

Myra Chanin | Posted 02.20.2013 | Weird News
Myra Chanin

Len Cariou may well be the most persistently employed performer on the planet. He leaps fleetly from role to role, format to format and venue to venue -- theater, film, television, recordings, narration, voiceovers, documentaries and audio books.

Who's Crazy Now?

George Heymont | Posted 12.31.2012 | Arts
George Heymont

Which messenger from an alternate universe would you prefer to hear from? A ghost who walks at midnight or a suburban nut job who tried to assassinate the President of the United States?

Chatting With Peter Frampton, Bruce Hornsby and Mike Andrews

Mike Ragogna | Posted 12.24.2012 | Entertainment
Mike Ragogna

"I always try to make stuff that affects me and I think that if given the chance, a lot of music that doesn't seem like the formula of what might be a hit would be more popular. There's a lot of great music that doesn't sound like whatever. Everything sounds very dance-y now."

Bowling for Our Time and West Side Story on Broadway

Regina Weinreich | Posted 12.24.2012 | Entertainment
Regina Weinreich

A touch of old Hollywood convened at Broadway's New York Institute of Technology's auditorium on Tuesday night for an anniversary screening of West Side Story.

Musings, Music, and Monologues

George Heymont | Posted 12.20.2012 | Arts
George Heymont

There I was, trying to find a hook that could unite my thoughts about curious solo turns when I came across a headline on The Huffington Post that screamed: "Watch: Justin Bieber Pukes Onstage."

First Nighter: The Crazy Coqs, London's New Nitery, Opens Hot With Clive Rowe

David Finkle | Posted 12.17.2012 | Entertainment
David Finkle

What is/are The Crazy Coqs? They is a new cabaret room, and in these parlous times when it's more usually reported that an intimate boite is shuttering, the fact that one has opened is a cause for celebration.

West Side Never Sounded Better

Lew Whittington | Posted 12.16.2012 | Arts
Lew Whittington

The artistic excellence all around was much appreciated by this audience, who stayed as the credits rolled, lustily applauding Bernstein, Sondheim, Robbins, and of course, the luminous Natalie Wood.

New Clothes for Shakespeare and Sondheim, or the 'Wisdom' of Harry Hotdoggen

Steven Paul Leiva | Posted 12.03.2012 | Arts
Steven Paul Leiva

Arrogance of ignorance rests at the core of the proponents of Creationism and Intelligent Design -- it leads to ideology not ideas; madness not method; hate not the humane.

Theater: Ibsen on Broadway, 'Detroit' Falls Apart, Sondheim and a Red-Handed Otter

Michael Giltz | Posted 12.20.2012 | Arts
Michael Giltz

Pulitzer Prize-finalist Detroit has a lot on its mind. Playwright Lisa D'Amour tackles suburban life, the sense of uprootedness that seems a constant in America thanks to the constant push for change, the changing roles of men and women and much more.

'West Side Story': When You're A Jet, You're A Jet All The Way!

The Huffington Post | Hallie Sekoff | Posted 09.26.2012 | Arts

Today marks the 55th anniversary of the Broadway premiere of West Side Story, which debuted at the Winter Garden Theater in New York in 1957. A “Rom...

A 'G-Rated' Version Of 'Into The Woods'

The Huffington Post | Hallie Sekoff | Posted 08.22.2012 | Arts

This afternoon, The Public Theater will present a family friendly matinee of Into The Woods, performing only the first act of the musical. The Sondhei...

The Circus of Life

George Heymont | Posted 10.19.2012 | Arts
George Heymont

Time flies when you're having fun. It's hard to believe that half a century has passed since A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum debuted at the Alvin Theatre on May 8, 1962.

Not Happily Ever After All - A Feminist Response to 'Into the Woods'

Carey Purcell | Posted 10.14.2012 | Arts
Carey Purcell

The Public Theater's revival of Into the Woods is a muddled and confusing show that seems to have gotten lost along the way to its goal, just like many of its characters.

Can She Sing? Big Maybelle: Soul of the Blues at Bay Street and Into the Woods at the Delacorte

Regina Weinreich | Posted 10.12.2012 | Arts
Regina Weinreich

The woods are dark and deep, and rife with loss, chance encounter, menace and mischief in the revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's musical Into the Woods, well staged amidst the foliage at Central Park's Delacorte Theater.