Isn’t that a bizarre thing to say? Not too bizarre, evidently, for the social media campaign that pressured a Northwestern University theater group into cancelling its production of Stephen Sondheim’s ...
It flopped when it first opened on Broadway in 1990 but has since been recognized as one of Sondheim's major works. At one point in the show, Booth, who killed Abraham Lincoln, calls his victim a ...
There are the ladies who lunch. And then there are the ladies of musical theater who eat everyone else’s lunch. “Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends” has plenty of the latter, and as a revue, as opposed to ...
I am wary of anyone who dislikes and dismisses the works of Stephen Sondheim. In my view, being an anti-Sondheimite is akin to hating the Beatles, Stanley Kubrick, Vincent Van Gogh and sunsets.
Mackintosh credits Sondheim himself: “Old Friends was Steve’s idea, born during lockdown, when he suggested it was time (and we had plenty of it!) we put together a third review of his work,” and ...
She shepherded the works of George S. Kaufman from the 20th century into the next, encouraging regional theater productions ...
BELOW will present some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond, including Jenn Colella, and more.
But could all this ballyhoo sap interest in his work? It would be an irony worthy of Sondheim if, after a lifetime of being dismissed as too highbrow, his posthumous career suffered from ...
But could the singer handle Sondheim — a composer heralded for creating some of the most challenging, idiosyncratic work seen on the American stage — on Broadway? Could she inhabit a character ...
That “Parade” belongs on that list became ineluctably clear during its Broadway revival two years ago. And that case is ...