Steven sondheim

March 22, 1930– Stephen Sondheim: "The outsider feeling, somebody who people want to both kiss and kill, occurred quite early in my life." Today we celebrate the birthday of Stephen Sondheim, my favorite theatre composer and lyricist, and a major figure of inspiration. In the craziest of coincidences, today is also the 91st birthday of crumbly,

Read 6 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. Talented lyricist and composer. Innovative collaborator. Musical visionary. Go behind the sc…

Stephen Sondheim and Bernadette Peters, a musical combo that is pure magic, working on "Sunday In The Park With George"

These nine portraits of Sondheim musicals, from “West Side Story” and “Gypsy” to “Into the Woods” and “Passion,” sparked this theatergoer’s memory.

Rare photographs by Martha Swope, a longtime theater and dance photographer who died on Jan. 12, 2016, were displayed at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Shana Cooper Shana Cooper makes her PlayMakers' directorial debut with A Midsummer Night's Dream. She brings a wealth of Shakespeare directorial experience with credits including Romeo and Juliet at Yale Repertory Theatre, Love’s Labor’s Lost at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Taming of the Shrew at California Shakespeare Theater, and Richard III at the Yale School of Drama. A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of Shana’s favorites, being the first play she ever directed. She recently…

Stephen Joshua Sondheim was an American composer and lyricist. Regarded as one of the most important figures in 20th-century musical theater, he is credited wit...

A new book by the playwright and director James Lapine examines the long and complicated process of putting the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical together.