Critics Weigh in on Encores! staging of Do I Hear A Waltz? by Rick Pender

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…

Reductive "Definitive" Volume About Modern Musicals Won't Satisfy Neophytes or Experts by Rick Pender

REVIEW 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" of w…

Sondheim and the Chaotic Age: Ethan Mordden's Opinionated Guide by Rick Pender

  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…

Discovering Leona: Melissa Errico stars in DO I HEAR A WALTZ? for Encores! by Rick Pender

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…

A Writer Speaks Up … by Rick Pender

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 editorial …

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