Stephen Sondheim News

ONE of theatrea s most iconic and popular stage musicals, West Side Story, is to be performed by the Pershore Operatic and Dramatic Society.

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The Raymore-Peculiar High School Fine Arts Department announces its upcoming production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's award winning musical 'Into the Woods.'Performances of the show will be at 7:30 p.m. tonight; 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday; and 2:30 p.m. Sunday in the Academy Theatre at Ray-Pec High School.'Into the Woods' tells the ...

Angela Lansbury, the legendary actress, will receive the first Stephen Sondheim Award from Signature Theatre, the company will announce Thursday.

The honor reunites two old friends, as well as artistic talents who are acknowledged innovators in their disciplines and have each forged careers that cover 50 years of theater and music history.

'Angela Lansbury's first appearance on the musical stage was in a show called 'Anyone Can Whistle,' for which I wrote the score. That appearance was a gift to the musical theater, although perhaps not such a gift to her, since the show only ran for nine performances,' Sondheim said in a statement, referring to his 1964 musical. 'I am thrilled that Signature Theatre is helping me make it up to her by giving her the first Stephen Sondheim Award.'

Composer and conductor HK Gruber led a performance that included a U.S. premiere, kazoos and paper-bag popping.

I just got some snaps from last night's Westport Country Playhouse 's annual gala, celebrating composer Mary Rodgers Guettel , who was an appentice at the Playhouse in 1950.

Nov 3 - Angela Lansbury returns to musical theater and Catherine Zeta Jones makes her Broadway debut with A Little Night Music, a Stephen Sondheim revival.

When a director pushes boundaries, great things can happen. That's certainly what John Doyle's staging of Three Sisters has tried to do.

A revival of Passion will take the stage in the second half of 2010. Stephen Sondheim's Tony-winning musical Passion will be part of the 2010 line-up at London's Donmar Warehouse.

You can't always judge a musical by its first number. But "Comedy Tonight," which opens "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum," tells you from the get-go whether you'll be in good hands.

Little Me is a fizzy and cheerful musical written in 1962. It was designed as a vehicle for the multi-talented Sid Caesar and written by two men destined to leave an enormous mark on Broadway, Neil Simon and Cy Coleman .

Kate Baldwin, who woke up on Oct. 30 to enthusiastic reviews for her performance as Sharon in Broadway's Finian's Rainbow , has a booking at Feinstein's at Loews Regency in December.

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View larger image Sheree Cipicchio, seated, as Florinda, is about to have her foot cut by Theresa Apple, holding a knife, as Cinderella's stepmother.

No Broadway musical is more appropriate for Halloween viewing than Stephen Sondheim's masterpiece, Sweeney Todd - the tale of a vengeful barber, a lecherous judge, some slashed throats and pies filled with mysterious meat.

The Oxford Area Community Theater production of "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum," opens at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct.

While most theatregoers can identify their favorite plays, few would recognize their favorite playwrights on the street.

Manoel Felciano got rave reviews for his performance as the Jewish-immigrant artist Tateh in the revival of the musical "Ragtime" at Washington's Kennedy Center last spring.

Stephen Sondheim, in a rare interview, talks about the future of theater as well as what he's working on next.

Some of the most memorable episodes of "The Simpsons" have involved musical moments and last Sunday's broadcast added a new entry into the animated comedy's musical catalog.