Monday, April 17, 2017
Thick taut ropes stretch across the back of the stage at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles like a forest of piano wires. Stacks of piano harps scale each side of the stage, framed by a pro…
SOURCE: EverythingSondheim at 03:23PMTuesday, March 28, 2017
What would you expect when fans have been known to refer to their favorite composer and lyricist (who wrote a song about it) as God? The Sondheimas Mixtape at the Public Theater in Manhatta…
SOURCE: EverythingSondheim at 08:22PMThursday, March 23, 2017
In New York City, the Barrow Street Theatre production of Sweeney Todd (running until at least Dec. 31, 2017) truly extends beyond the normalcy of the fourth wall. More than an immers…
SOURCE: EverythingSondheim at 03:02PMSunday, March 19, 2017
New York City Center’s Sunday in the Park with George on Broadway (Feb. 11-April 23, 2017) Every once in a rare while, the theater rewards us with a kind of transcendent experie…
SOURCE: EverythingSondheim at 03:48PMSunday, March 12, 2017
You would think that at some point in its evolution, a theater company devoted to producing works whose themes concern LGBT issues and whose playwrights represent the LGBT community, would g…
SOURCE: EverythingSondheim at 07:50PMMonday, February 27, 2017
At age 22, Sandra Church originated the role of Louise in Jule Styne, Arthur Laurents and Stephen Sondheim’s Gypsy staged by Jerome Robbins. She retired from the theater in the 1960s to pu…
SOURCE: EverythingSondheim at 07:04PMSunday, February 19, 2017
Color and light, tension and harmony. These design elements should be fundamental to any stage production, but perhaps none more than Stephen Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park With George. In …
SOURCE: EverythingSondheim at 11:59AMIn an extraordinary six-year period, Stephen Sondheim and Harold Prince brought four landmark musicals to Broadway: Company (1970), Follies (1971), A Little Night Music (1973) and Pacific Ov…
SOURCE: EverythingSondheim at 11:51AM Everything Sondheim: In 2002 you designed six Sondheim shows in one summer for the Kennedy Center Sondheim Celebration. Derek McLane: That’s true! EvSo: How exactly did it work? Wer…
SOURCE: EverythingSondheim at 10:50AMMonday, October 24, 2016
The Stratford Festival in Ontario is one of North America’s preeminent theater companies. Producing a rolling repertory of more than a dozen plays and musicals from April through November …
SOURCE: EverythingSondheim at 04:07PMTuesday, October 18, 2016
Like many Stephen Sondheim fans, author Robert L. McLaughlin discovered Sondheim’s musical work when he found a cast album (in his case, Company) at the library while in high school. McLau…
SOURCE: EverythingSondheim at 08:35PMHow do you solve a problem like Company? While now revered as a benchmark of the post-Golden Age, its own advancing years can be a challenge to those who might wish it would always be what i…
SOURCE: EverythingSondheim at 08:04PMTuesday, October 4, 2016
It’s hard to listen to Barbra Streisand’s latest album, Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway, without comparing it to her two previous Broadway albums. The liner notes explicitly link he…
SOURCE: EverythingSondheim at 03:21PM At the age of 25, Jim Walton originated the role of Franklin Shepard in Merrily We Roll Along on Broadway. Walton talks about the highs and lows of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity…
SOURCE: EverythingSondheim at 01:46PMWednesday, August 24, 2016
Rabarbrateateret (“The Rhubarb Theater”) is a theater company situated in the idyllic “old town” Bakklandet in Trondheim, Norway’s third largest city. The company has mounted accla…
SOURCE: EverythingSondheim at 04:28PMSo is it a musical or an opera? One might have expected Sweeney Todd at the Glimmerglass Festival to come down firmly on the side of the latter. But, to borrow a thought from Into the Woods,…
SOURCE: EverythingSondheim at 04:27PMThe big revelation instantly splashed across the media was that Stephen Sondheim’s new musical is to have its premiere Off Broadway at the Public Theater in late 2017 — “ if I can fini…
SOURCE: EverythingSondheim at 04:26PMSunday, July 17, 2016
For Everything Sondheim’s first installment of “Singing Sondheim,” I’m looking at recent releases from male singers. You can expect a follow-up column with female singers next month …
SOURCE: EverythingSondheim at 05:36PM Singer Katie Welsh performed an evening of song, Women in the World of Sondheim, at Feinstein’s 54 Below in New York City on June 10, 2016, accompanied by pianist Emily Whitaker. Sh…
SOURCE: EverythingSondheim at 05:30PM In Barbara Cook’s preface to her memoir Then & Now, she expresses the hope that “this book might help some people through bad times.” This piercingly candid, remarkably clea…
SOURCE: EverythingSondheim at 05:21PM John McMartin, an actor with a flair for patrician roles, died on July 6, 2016. According to the New York Times, the cause was cancer. He was 86. McMartin, whose stage career began in…
SOURCE: EverythingSondheim at 05:17PMThursday, June 16, 2016
REVIEW BY ERIK HAAGENSEN Two recent books about show business share a tangential tie to Stephen Sondheim while otherwise being about as different as they can be. American entertainment lawye…
SOURCE: EverythingSondheim at 10:01AMTuesday, June 7, 2016
REVIEW BY RICK PENDER When Kurt Peterson and Victoria Mallory walked onstage at New York City Center on Sunday, April 29, 2012, it was a joyous reconnection to present a concert they called …
SOURCE: EverythingSondheim at 01:38PMMonday, May 30, 2016
INTERVIEW BY MICHAEL PORTANTIERE Len Cariou’s brilliant career has had at least three acts. His first act was onstage in his native Canada and at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, primar…
SOURCE: EverythingSondheim at 02:41PMEXCLUSIVE COVERAGE FOR EVERYTHING SONDHEIM BY MARK SHAIMAN AND JIM SCHNEIDER It’s been 51 years since the Leona of Do I Hear A Waltz? went to Venice to cry, but the (May 11-15, 2016) reviv…
SOURCE: EverythingSondheim at 02:32PMThursday, May 19, 2016
COMPILED BY CHRISTA SKILES From May 11 to 15, New York City Center’s Encores! series presented a concert staging of Do I Hear A Waltz? by Richard Rodgers and Stephen Sondheim. The cast…
SOURCE: EverythingSondheim at 03:58PMREVIEW BY ERIK HAAGENSEN The starkly titled, lavish coffee-table book Musicals, from England’s prestigious DK publishing house, grandly promises to be “The Definitive Illustrated Story�…
SOURCE: EverythingSondheim at 03:15PMSunday, April 24, 2016
REVIEW BY THERESA J. BECKHUSEN Ethan Mordden’s On Sondheim (Oxford University Press, 2016) is indeed an opinionated guide. It also happens to be thorough and authoritative, despite…
SOURCE: EverythingSondheim at 05:33PMMonday, April 18, 2016
INTERVIEW BY ANDY PROPST In just a few weeks, a musical theater rarity will take the stage of New York City Center: Do I Hear a Waltz?, the 1965 tuner with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics b…
SOURCE: EverythingSondheim at 03:24PMSunday, April 17, 2016
I was a contributing writer for The Sondheim Review from 2007 to 2015. During the past several years I’ve worked closely with TSR’s former managing editor, Rick Pender, and his editoria…
SOURCE: EverythingSondheim at 03:52PMFriday, March 9, 2012
TheaterMania previews the 36th annual Humana Festival of New American Plays in Louisville.
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