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I love Benoit Blanc’s love for musical theatre

That needle drop in 'Wake Up Dead Man' is perfect.

The Mary Sue

Into the Woods review: A triumphant musical mash-up of fairytales

4/5 This revival of Stephen Sondheim’s clever musical is packed with terrific performances as classic fairytale characters lose their way in the darkness

Evening Standard

Into the Woods review, Bridge Theatre – Stephen Sondheim revival is a thing of lush and arresting beauty

4/5 A lavish production that plays to the musical’s strengths

The Independent UK

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Into the Woods review – Brothers Grimm gloriously mashed up by Sondheim

Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s fairytale adventure follows its archetypal characters into real-world emotion, brilliantly drawn and sung

The Guardian - UK

Blue Moon: Ethan Hawke’s performance is a tour de force – but can’t save this uncertain film

Does the truth matter in a film about historical events? This question sits at the heart of any biographical drama, shaping how we judge the balance between storytelling and accuracy.

The Conversation

Hate the new songs in ‘Wicked: For Good’? Here are 10 songs added to movie musicals that don’t suck

While it's not impossible, there are very few movie musicals that pull off adding a new song.

The Mary Sue

The flop that finally flew: why did it take 40 years for Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along to soar?

Its 1981 New York premiere was a disaster but this told-in-reverse musical became a Tony award-winning hit with Daniel Radcliffe. The film version is a tear-jerking joy

The Guardian - UK

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Richard Linklater’s ‘Blue Moon’ is a beautiful exploration of art, love, and the Golden Age of Broadway

'Blue Moon' is yet another masterpiece from Richard Linklater and Ethan Hawke.

The Mary Sue

Ian Judge obituary

Theatre and opera director whose work stretched from Gilbert and Sullivan to Shakespeare

The Guardian - UK

‘The masturbation scene really happened’: inside Safe Space, the campus drama about toppling a statue

Inspired by a protest that took place while he was at Yale, Safe Space is musicals star Jamie Bogyo’s debut play. He speaks about well-meaning white liberals, saying ‘cringe’ things – and tutoring a Bin Laden

The Guardian - UK

Dishonored 'sounded a little bit ridiculous' in the beginning, but came together with the help of the Sweeney Todd musical

Looking Glass legend Austin Grossman describes the sometimes absurd process of conjuring Dunwall.

PC Gamer

‘A privilege and a great pleasure’: inside the 5,000-item Stephen Sondheim collection

A treasure trove of manuscripts, notebooks and recordings from the theatre legend has been acquired by the Library of Congress in Washington DC

The Guardian - US

Stephen Sondheim's papers go to Library of Congress, offering a look into a Broadway genius

Manuscripts, music and lyric drafts, recordings, notebooks and scrapbooks from Stephen Sondheim have been donated to the Library of Congress

The Independent UK

Here We Are: how silence defines Stephen Sondheim’s last musical

In musical theatre lore, when emotion outgrows words, characters sing (and when emotion outgrows song, they dance). This idea – in various guises, configurations and subversions – has shaped musical theatre for the last eight decades. The expectation that in a musical, characters sing is deeply ingrained: songs move the…

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The Guardian - UK

‘Please don’t fart, this is art’ – Stephen Sondheim’s musical The Frogs review

A droll Dionysos, an ab-obsessed himbo and a waddling ballet for goggle-clad frogs can’t outshine Sondheim’s songs in this rarely seen version of the ancient Greek satire

Evening Standard

The Frogs at Southwark Playhouse review: bursting with unfulfilled promise

3/5 Stephen Sondheim’s weirdest show gets its moment in the spotlight

The Guardian - UK

Charles Strouse obituary

Tony-winning Broadway composer who wrote the music for Annie and Bye Bye Birdie

The Independent UK

Three years after his death, Stephen Sondheim feels more alive than ever

IN FOCUS: ‘Here We Are’, now running at the National Theatre, is the musical theatre titan’s final, posthumous work. But when it comes to Sondheim, this couldn’t be further from the end, writes Louis Chilton

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Evening Standard

Here We Are at the National Theatre, Lyttelton review: should this have been staged at all?

2/5 Stephen Sondheim’s posthumous musical has no songs, only a stellar cast save it from being completely unenjoyable

The Guardian - UK

Here We Are review – Sondheim’s desperate diners have a double helping of Buñuel

This energetic look at the charmed lives of the 1% features some signature sparks, but the class satire is not potent enough in the composer’s swansong

The Guardian - UK

‘We’re not here to slander Sondheim!’ Inside the master’s wild final musical, completed at last

Here We Are, a satirical mashup of two surrealist movie masterpieces, was finished after musicals maestro Stephen Sondheim died – outraging some fans. As the show hits Britain, its stars and creators reveal their thrills and fears

The Independent UK

Cameron Mackintosh, one of the last great theater impresarios, has plans for stages everywhere

The great composer Stephen Sondheim loved puzzles, and when he died in 2021, he left one for his good friend, British super-producer Cameron Mackintosh

Reason

"Misguided Anti-Racism Campaign Cancels College Sondheim Production"

From Northwestern law professor Andrew Koppelman (The Hill) (this is the unexpurgated version that I received by e-mail, so I'm… The post "Misguided Anti-Racism Campaign Cancels College Sondheim Production" appeared first on Reason.com.

The Guardian - US

Denzel, Clooney and Sondheim: the biggest Broadway shows of 2025

After another blockbuster year for Broadway, more stars are hitting the stage with a range of revivals and new shows

The Guardian - US

Gypsy review – Audra McDonald is a knockout in Broadway revival

Stephen Sondheim’s much-adored musical gets a dazzling new makeover with a bravura turn from the six-time Tony award winner

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