The Little Theatre of Alexandria presents Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, a macabre musical about a wronged man and his consuming fixation on revenge…
ASPEN - I was sitting at my desk at the San Francisco Examiner one day in 1979 when Michael Walsh, the classical music critic, stopped by. We often chatted about concerts, but this time he w…
ASPEN - I was sitting at my desk at the San Francisco Examiner one day in 1979 when Michael Walsh, the classical music critic, stopped by. We often chatted about concerts, but this time he w…
Three West End musicals. All hits. All very different. Let’s start with the first of three that I saw the last week in June. That would be Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical now…
Comedian Jason Manford takes over as 'Italian' barber Adolfo Pirelli in the Whatsonstage.com Award-winning revival of Sweeney Todd at the Adelphi Theatre tonight (2 July 2012), starring alon…
Crucible Theatre, Sheffield: Stellar performances from some of the principal players give a considerable boost to this production of Sweeney Todd, from the Newcastle University Theatre Socie…
The Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival's production of Sweeney Todd, which opened last weekend, ripples with meaty ideas, but they are too often ground into bad meat pies by an erratic, muddy…
Erratic sound dents an otherwise good production at the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival. Inquirer theater critic Howard Shapiro reviews from Center Valley, Pa.
Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival opens a new production of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's bloody musical Sweeney Todd June 15, with Broadway's William Michals as the "demo…
Broadway's William Michals and Dee Roscioli star in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street at the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, June13-July 1 on the Main Stage of the Labud…
Better late than never as the score of a 1924 Gershwin/DeSylva Broadway show finally gets recorded: "Sweet Little Devil" ... in "Sweeney Todd," the only warnings needed about the latest cas…
Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's musical thriller has been captivating audiences since 1979, and has enjoyed not only theatre, but opera house productions from companies all over the worl…
The participants in this year's annual West End LIVE have been announced. The free concerts in London's Trafalgar Square will take place on June 23 and 24 and mark the opening week…
Jonathan Kent's quite impeccable new production of Stephen Sondheim's "Sweeny Todd" seems to take its tone from Michael Ball's assumption of the title role: lean, muscular and efficient. Ope…
Rod Gilfry as Todd and Karen Ziemba as Mrs. Lovett make a dynamic pair and their scenes together are a wicked delight.
Rod Gilfry and Karen Ziemba share a devious duet in Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's Tony-winning musical Sweeney Todd at the Opera Theatre of St. Louis beginning May 26.
Powerful title role has strong appeal for baritones.
Sweeney Todd Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton in a promotional video featuring excerpts from the 2012 London revival. No copyright infringement intended. http://www.songsfromthemusicals.co…
Sweeney Todd Angela Lansbury of the original Broadway production in a performance of "Worst Pies in London" at the Tony Awards. No copyright infringement intended. http://www.son…
Rod Gilfry and Karen Ziemba will share a devious duet in Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's Tony-winning musical Sweeney Todd at the Opera Theatre of St. Louis this summer.
With the 2012 election coming up in November, political parodies are everywhere, and it's about time that some gave the race a Broadway twist. In the video below, Roy Zimmerman puts a differ…
(photo via Twitter by Benjamin Laird)Ordeal PoisonYou shed your complexes and beg to die…Musically!by Ryan HurlTrial by Ordeal Poison- where a person is forced shed their complexes or beg …
Michael Ball turns 50 on June 27, but the hugely popular British star has been the one gifting playgoers of late by giving the performance of his career in the West End revival of Sweeney To…
A roundup of spring parties in London, including the presentation of the Sheridan Morley Prize to Stephen Sondheim, plus visits to his Sweeney Todd and the Old Vic's Duchess of Malfi sta…
Diana DiMarzio, who starred as the Beggar Woman in John Doyle's Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of Sweeney Todd, opposite Patti LuPone and Michael Cerveris, will re-create her perfor…