‘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 · Dec 18, 2022
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. Chicago Tribune · Dec 14, 2022
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 Guardian - US · Dec 13, 2022
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 The Independent UK · Dec 5, 2022
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. WEKU · Dec 2, 2022
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 Evening Standard · Nov 30, 2022
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. Tribune News Service · Nov 18, 2022
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. WEKU · Nov 18, 2022
‘Knives Out’ director Rian Johnson says Daniel Craig’s character ‘obviously’ is queer Benoit Blanc is here and apparently queer. Tribune News Service · Oct 18, 2022
‘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 The Guardian - UK · Oct 15, 2022
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. Tribune News Service · Oct 14, 2022
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 The Guardian - UK · Oct 11, 2022
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. Los Angeles Times · Oct 11, 2022
Appreciation: Angela Lansbury, an instantly recognizable and readily transformable talent Angela Lansbury, who achieved widespread fame as the star of the long-running CBS series “Murder, She Wrote” and was the recipient of six Tony Awards (including an honorary one bestowed this year) was never to be confused with any other performer. A royal in exile, astringently self-possessed, her syllables arrayed… Los Angeles Times · Oct 11, 2022
The Guardian - UK · Oct 11, 2022 Angela Lansbury: the scene-stealing grande dame of stage and screen for 75 years Best-known as the novelist-sleuth Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote, Lansbury’s winning charm and towering talent stretches all the way back to the days of Noël Coward and Judy Garland
Los Angeles Times · Oct 11, 2022 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.
Los Angeles Times · Sep 13, 2022 Here's what we learned (without spoilers) at the premiere of 'Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery' In the same theater, in the same Saturday time slot, where "Knives Out" premiered in 2019, this year's Toronto International Film Festival unveiled "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery,' the latest film from writer-director Rian Johnson.
Tribune News Service · Sep 6, 2022 Josh Groban to star in Broadway revival of ‘Sweeney Todd’ with Tony winner Annaleigh Ashford NEW YORK — The cast of Broadway’s upcoming “Sweeney Todd” revival is a cut above.
The Guardian - UK · Sep 4, 2022 The week in theatre: The Narcissist; Into the Woods – review Christopher Shinn’s new play of post-Trump politics finds complex characters lost in ego and addiction, while Terry Gilliam and Leah Hausman’s take on Sondheim is just a bit too much
The Guardian - UK · Aug 25, 2022 Into the Woods review – Terry Gilliam’s rollicking take on Sondheim’s ‘fairytale collision’ Terry Gilliam’s production is visually enticing, playful and dreamlike but doesn’t quite reach the mournful depths of parental anxiety that run through the story
The Independent UK · Aug 17, 2022 Randy Rainbow, master satirist, vies with Goliaths for Emmy Randy Rainbow has built a career on his musical parody videos, and he's up for his fourth Emmy nomination
Tribune News Service · Jul 28, 2022 Smash hit Broadway revival of ‘Into The Woods’ extends run to Oct. 16 NEW YORK — Broadway audiences are really into the latest revival of “Into The Woods.”
WEKU · Jul 22, 2022 'Into the Woods' returns to Broadway A concert version of Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods stars Sara Bareilles, Brian d'Arcy James, Joshua Henry and others.
Tribune News Service · Jul 12, 2022 Review: Broadway revival of Sondheim’s ‘Into the Woods’ still makes for a powerful journey NEW YORK — All great musicals rely on metaphors. But Broadway never has come up with a more pliable one than “Into the Woods,” the beloved masterpiece by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine that uses a fairy-tale mashup to explore the universals that please, worry, seduce, calm and destroy us.
Salon · Jul 11, 2022 Why the "Funny Girl" casting matters As Broadway continues to struggle to return, a shakeup in a show made iconic by Barbra Streisand