Stephen Sondheim

Lullabies by Broadway's Best

Andy Propst | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: John Patrick Shanley, Laura Osnes, Stephen Schwartz, Jeff Bowen, Audra McDonald, Broadway, Parenting, Robert Lopez, Music, Babies, Stephen Sondheim, Culture, Lullabies, Donna Murphy, Sutton Foster, Sleep, Maury Yeston, Parents News

Imagine you could gather Tony Award winners at your child's bedside to sing him or her to sleep. What if these artists were there to perform original lullabies by Stephen Sondheim?

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Writers' Theatre's A Little Night Music Captivates

Robert Bullen | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Chicago Around Town, Stephen Sondheim, Chicago Arts, Chicago Theater, A Little Night Music, A Little Night Music Show, A Little Night Music Musicals, Writers' Theater Chicago, Writers' Theatre, Chicago News

There's something magical happening up in Glencoe, Ill. It's a sparkling new production of a Little Night Music -- a sophisticated, romantic comedy set in 20th century Sweden.

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Romney Mitt, the Demon Barber of Wall Street

Roy Zimmerman | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Satire, Economy, Bullying, Mitt Romney, Prep School, Campaign, Apology, Stephen Sondheim, Song Parody, Comedy, Video, Comedy News

Mitt Romney has encouraged young people to "take a risk," like he did back in prep school. "Take a shot, go for it," like he did. "Borrow money if you have to, start a business."

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Amy Adams Will Perform In Free Park Plays

AP | MARK KENNEDY | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Video, James Lapine, Shakespeare in the Park Tickets, Amy Adams, Shakespeare in the Park, Into the Woods, Shakespeare in the Park 2012, Stephen Sondheim, Amy Adams Shakespeare in the Park, Amy Adams Into the Woods, Culture News

NEW YORK — Amy Adams, who played a princess in the film "Enchanted," will be returning to fairy tales this summer, starring opposite Cinderella ...

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"And the Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theater Goes To... "

Freddie Gershon | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: Musical Theatre International, Musicals in Our Schools Week, Junior Theater Project, Itheatrics, Disney Theatrical Group, Smash, Broadway Musicals, Nbc, Tony Honors, The Kennedy Center, Stephen Sondheim, Arts News

The challenge was to engage kids and let them discover the magic of theater for themselves, so that it stays vibrant and robust for multiple generations by being insinuated into the culture of our country.

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Old Friends

Roger Fransecky | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Merrily We Roll Along, Quotes, Friendship, Quotes Friendship, Stephen Sondheim, Friendships, Conscious Relationships, Friends, Healthy Living News

The growth of the social web and the increasing linkages to what some call "Web 4.0" will make sifting and sorting our time and attention for "real" friends more and more challenging. But it's worth it.

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First Nighter: Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along Does and Doesn't

David Finkle | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Celia Keenan-Bolger, City Center Encores! Series, Moss Hart, Lin-Manuel Miranda, James Lapine, Harold Prince, George S. Kaufman, George Furth, Colin Donnell, Merrily We Roll Along, Rob Berman, Wendall K. Harrington, Dan Knechtges, Merrily We Roll Along Review, Stephen Sondheim, Entertainment News

Ever since the Stephen Sondheim-George Furth-Harold Prince Merrily We Roll Along opened in 1981, rolling along merrily is one thing it hasn't done.

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Is "Merrily We Roll Along" No Longer A Flop?

AP | By MARK KENNEDY | Posted 02.09.2012

Read More: Finishing the Hat, Musical Theater, New York City Center, Merrily We Roll Along, Theater, Encore, Encore! Series, Musicals, Stephen Sondheim, Arts News

NEW YORK -- Shall we start with the distant past? Stephen Sondheim's "Merrily We Roll Along" was one of the composing giant's few flops. And when it o...

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An Amazing Performance!

Liz Neumark | Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: Broadway, Musicals, Into the Woods, Stephen Sondheim, Slidepollajax, Into the Woods Sondheim, Great Performances Into the Woods, Arts News

In the course of two evenings on a stage at the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, to packed audiences of peers, family members, co-workers and strangers, the cast gave a Broadway quality 'great performance.'

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Celebrated Playwrights To Aid Japan

AP | MARK KENNEDY | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Benefits, Pacific Overtures, Tony Kushner, Edward Albee, Theater, Plays, Fundraising, Stephen Sondheim, Japanese Earthquake, Arts News

NEW YORK — Celebrated playwrights including Stephen Sondheim, Tony Kushner and Edward Albee have joined a fundraiser to mark the anniversary of ...

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Basking in the Multiple Charms of The Secret Garden

George Heymont | Posted 02.11.2012

If the crassness of the current social, political, and economic climate has you down in the dumps, I can't recommend a lovelier, more charming, experience.

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3 For D.C. in NYC

Charlie Fink | Posted 01.07.2012

Read More: NY Around Town, Broadway, Adam Gwon, Follies, Bernice Bobs Her Hair, Charlie Schulman, Stephen Sondheim, The Fatiste, DC News

I saw fantastic musicals in NYC the other week that each has, coincidentally, a D.C. connection. First, there's Sondheim's Follies on Broadway.

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Sondheim Treasure Hunt In The Natural History Museum!

AP | By MARK KENNEDY | Posted 12.04.2011

Read More: Sjp, Video, Sondheim Natural History Museum, Natural History Museum, NY Culture, NY Around Town, Stephen Sondheim, Sarah Jessica Parker, New York News

NEW YORK -- A treasure hunt devised by composer Stephen Sondheim prompted hundreds of people, including Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, to...

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SJP, Others Spend Night At The Museum On A Treasure Hunt

AP | By MARK KENNEDY | Posted 12.04.2011

Read More: Sondheim Treasure Hunt, A Little Jurassic Treasure Hunt, Friends in Deed, Dinosaur Treasure Hunt, American Museum of Natural History, Theater, Stephen Sondheim, Sarah Jessica Parker, Matthew Broderick, Culture News

BY MARK KENNEDY, Associated Press NEW YORK — What do you get when you combine Stephen Sondheim and dinosaurs? No, not "Jurassic Park: The Musical...

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When the Claws Come Out

George Heymont | Posted 12.03.2011

Read More: Mame, Angela Lansbury, Film, Carol Burnett, Anyone Can Whistle, Ludivine Sagnier, Love Crime, Ruthie Henshall, Elaine Stritch, Jerry Herman, Stephen Sondheim, Bea Arthur, Kristin Scott Thomas, Arts News

Who doesn't love a good cat fight? I'm not talking about old-fashioned ladies mud wrestling or a trailer trash hair-pulling contest. I'm referring to the kind of fight where acid thoughts fly across the stage on malicious darts guided by a frightening level of intelligence.

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Follies -- Never Look Back

Naughty But Nice Rob | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Theater, Broadway, Follies, Review, Musicals, Stephen Sondheim, Culture News

It wouldn't surprise me a bit if in a decade or so people will be looking back on this production of Follies with nearly as much reverence as those who look back upon the original.

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Stiff Upper Lips

George Heymont | Posted 11.22.2011

Read More: Carrie Paff, A Delicate Balance, Jamie Jones, San Francisco Fringe Festival, Follies, Paper Mill Playhouse, Spitting in the Face of the Devil, Stephen Sondheim, Dee Hoty, Aurora Theatre Company, Anne Darragh, Carol Burnett, Charles Dean, Ken Grantham, Edward Albee, Kimberly King, Bob Brader, Arts News

Keeping up appearances is of paramount importance to control freaks. Two new productions reveal what happens when the ice starts to crack and terrible truths leak out.

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Broadway's Fall Season Full of A-Listers, on Stage and Off

James Sims | Posted 11.20.2011

With the fall season approaching, straight plays are headed back to Times Square, and they've got a big list of stars in tow.

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First Nighter: The Great Barbara Carroll Even Greater at the Algonquin's Oak Room

David Finkle | Posted 11.19.2011

Read More: Tony Bennett, Caroline Leigh, Billie Holiday, Barbara Carroll, Joe Bushkin, Worcester, Bobby Short, Massachusetts, Leonard Bernstein, Leo Robin, Stephen Sondheim, The Oak Room at the Algonquin, Ralph Burns, Dorothy Parker, Jay Leonhart, The Downbeat, Billy Strayhorn, Jerome Kern, Lorenz Hart, Cy Coleman, Johann Sebastian Bach, Richard Rodgers, Woody Herman, Vernon Duke, George Gershwin, The Embers, Road Show, Entertainment News

In her mid-80s, Barbara Carroll's still doing what she does best and what few others even begin to do as well as. Nowadays she does it more regularly at the Oak Room, where management is wise enough to turn the paneled room over to her every Sunday brunch.

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Stage Door: Follies, Dally With The Devil

Fern Siegel | Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: Musicals, Politics, Jan Maxwell, Theater, Broadway, Off-Broadway, Stephen Sondheim, Bernadette Peters, Follies, Arts News

The revival of Follies is perfection. One of Stephen Sondheim's most moving scores, it features two remarkable stars -- Bernadette Peters and Jan Maxwell -- and an extraordinary musical meditation on longing and regret.

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Theater: Follies Grand and Beautiful But...

Michael Giltz | Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Broadway, Theater, Musicals, Bernadette Peters, Follies Broadway, Follies, Stephen Sondheim, Entertainment News

This is the best-acted, best-sung production of Follies I've seen and yet it's still not the Follies of my dreams.

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On the Culture Front: Completeness, Follies, and The Select (The Sun Also Rises)

Chris Kompanek | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: Stephen Sondheim, Follies the Show, Follies the Musical, Follies Musical Sondheim, Play Completeness New York, Completeness Play, Follies Sondheim, New York News

Love is perhaps the most universal and constant through-line in literature and drama, so it's not surprising that three very different shows that opened this week deal with it in depth.

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First Nighter: "Follies" 2011 a Smash Hit

David Finkle | Posted 11.13.2011

Read More: Florence Klotz, Signature Theatre, Mary Beth Peil, Gregg Barnes, Gloria Swanson, Leah Horowitz, Rosalind Elias, Follies, Susan Watson, Warren Carlyle, Stephen Sondheim, Elaine Paige, David Sabin, Nick Verina, Finishing the Hat, Danny Burstein, Christian Delcroix, Kirsten Scott, Eric Schaeffer, Marriott Marquis, Harold Prince, Jan Maxwell, James Goldman, Boris Aronson, Michael Bennett, Bernadette Peters, Jayne Houdyshell, Lora Lee Gayer, Terri White, Moss Hart, Geroge S. Kaufman, Merrily We Roll Along, Don Correia, Ron Raines, Arts News

In a theater-going era when anything with assumed marquee value is trussed up for consumer consumption, it's a treat to recall something that -- for the abundance of high-quality theater craft it contains -- truly deserves enthusiastic applause.

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My Kingdom for a Goat!

Cara Joy David | Posted 10.19.2011

Read More: Porgy and Bess, Broadway, Audra McDonald, Theater, Stephen Sondheim, Culture News

We'll see what happens with Porgy and Bess. It could be amazing -- I truly hope it is. For now it simply stands as a cautionary tale. Not all press is good press.

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PHOTOS: 'Glee', Berlin, & Assassins : Haiku Reviews

Posted 08.23.2011

Read More: Glee, Video, Peter Frank, Germany, Theater, Film Festival, George Heymont, Seattle, Film, Haiku Reviews, Stephen Sondheim, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Berlin, Arts News

HuffPost Arts' Haiku Reviews is a weekly feature where invited critics review exhibitions and performances in short form. Some will be in the traditio...

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