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Stephen Sondheim's last musical finds a New York City stage

Stephen Sondheim’s last musical will be given an off-Broadway stage this year

The Independent UK

The best theatre to stream this month: The Boys Are Kissing, Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends and more

Our roundup of drama to watch at home includes Hans Christian Andersen on skates, a verbatim play five years in the making and poems from Ukraine

The Guardian - UK

Burr Ridge’s Eleri Ward continues her celebration of Sondheim on second album

Friday brings the release of Ward’s second indie-folk CD of Sondheim covers, “Keep a Tender Distance,” on Ghostlight Records.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Sondheim covers on Instagram, TikTok paved Eleri Ward's path

Eleri Ward had Stephen Sondheim’s “Every Day a Little Death” stuck in her head

The Independent UK

What happened to melodies in today’s movie musicals?

Movie musicals used to promise tunes for everyone forever, but is that kind of songwriting a lost art? Tim Rice and The Greatest Showman’s Greg Wells talk to Will Taylor

The Independent UK

‘Into the Woods’ a magical journey worth taking at Paramount Theatre

Paramount’s production, directed by Jim Corti and Trent Stork, does the show justice, deftly managing to be immensely family friendly while also leaning hard into the musical’s mature themes and darker elements.

Chicago Sun-Times

Kit Hesketh-Harvey obituary

Writer, broadcaster and half of the renowned cabaret act Kit and the Widow

The Guardian - UK

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AP Top 25 Movies, by the numbers: From dollars to donkeys

The films from 2022 that topped the AP's inaugural Top 25 Movies poll yield a host of other numbers, facts, figures and trivia on close examination

The Independent UK

Commentary: What a difference a revival makes: 2 famously tricky Sondheim musicals shine in new outings

NEW YORK — At lunch recently in New York with a retired theater critic, I asked if he’d care to join me later in the week for a matinee of the touted Broadway revival of “Into the Woods.” No, he demurred. He had reviewed the original production, and the show,…

Los Angeles Times

Investors are in a race to acquire music rights. Here’s why they should be looking to Broadway instead in 2023

Both music and theatrical copyrights can run with little to no overhead and generate significant licensing income.

Fortune

'Glass Onion’ cameos: The biggest surprise celebrities in 'Knives Out 2'

From the other members of Benoit Blanc's 'Among Us' crew to his recognizable romantic partner, here’s what you should know about all the biggest celebrity cameos in Rian Johnson's 'Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.'

Inverse

Cozy up to this "Knives Out" sequel

Rian Johnson's Netflix whodunit packs in more stars, more fun and even more bodies for your holiday viewing

Salon

‘It’s kind of crazy there wasn’t one’: inside the new Museum of Broadway

A splashy museum in New York pays tribute to the city’s long relationship with theatre from West Side Story to Hamilton

The Guardian - US

Review: ‘Merrily We Roll Along’ is Sondheim’s musical anew at New York Theatre Workshop

NEW YORK — In life, as God and Stephen Sondheim understand, we roll along whether or not we choose to do so merrily.

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The Guardian - US

Merrily We Roll Along review – Sondheim flop finds new lease of life

The infamous 1981 disaster has returned off-Broadway with help from Jonathan Groff and Daniel Radcliffe

The Independent UK

Lost Stephen Sondheim musical reveals insight into a giant

A copy of what’s being called Stephen Sondheim’s first original cast recording has been found on a misplaced CD, capturing the legendary composer’s budding skills in a student-led musical while at Williams College in 1948

WEKU

A rare recording of a musical by an 18-year-old Stephen Sondheim surfaces

Broadway-legend-in-training Stephen Sondheim was a college sophomore in 1948 when his musical Phinney's Rainbow was produced — and recorded — at Williams College in Massachusetts.

Evening Standard

Political musicals: from the forthcoming Berlusconi to Hamilton, it’s the gift that keeps on giving

Politics, it turns out, is a great topic for musicals

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Tony winner Joaquina Kalukango to take over the role of the Witch in Broadway’s ‘Into the Woods’

NEW YORK — Fresh off of winning a Tony Award for the recently canceled “Paradise Square,” Joaquina Kalukango has landed a plum gig in one of this Broadway season’s hottest shows.

WEKU

Robert Clary, the last star of the 'Hogan's Heroes,' dies at 96

A French-born survivor of Nazi concentration camps during World War II, Robert Clary began his career in entertainment as a nightclub singer.

Tribune News Service

‘Knives Out’ director Rian Johnson says Daniel Craig’s character ‘obviously’ is queer

Benoit Blanc is here and apparently queer.

The Guardian - UK

‘This isn’t fair!’: how Stephen Sondheim flew into a rage over a bad review

The famed playwright was incensed by an article that called his musical Passion ‘a little self-conscious’, according to a new book

Tribune News Service

Angela Lansbury’s final onscreen appearance will be in ‘Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery’

Angela Lansbury’s final act has yet to be seen.

The Guardian - UK

Dame Angela Lansbury obituary

Versatile actor with a long career on stage and screen, best known as the TV sleuth Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote

Los Angeles Times

Angela Lansbury, Broadway star and spunky detective in ‘Murder, She Wrote,’ dies at 96

LOS ANGELES — Angela Lansbury, a Tony Award-winning actress who conquered Broadway in the glamorous roles movie studios never gave her and captured television viewers as the star of the hit series “Murder, She Wrote,” has died at her home in Los Angeles.

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