At Writers Theatre, Gary Griffin stages a rich and rewarding revival of the popular fairy-tale mash-up. In Look, I Made a Hat, the second volume of his lyrics and musings about his work, Stephen Sondheim notes the unlikely genesis for Into the Woods: he and book writer James Lapine had concocted an idea for a TV special mashing up characters from similar comedies (Ralph and Alice Kramden …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AM on August 28, 2019