Stephen Sondheim News

Even if you don't know who Stephen Sondheim is, chances are you know one of his songs.

Crowded around a piano with musical director Beth Nystrom at the keys, a cast of seven warms up their voices.

Stephen Sondheim's first intended Broadway musical Saturday Night - written in 1954 when he was 24 and originally due to premiere on Broadway in 1955, but canceled following the death of its producer, Lemuel ...

On Stage: Five hot regional theater productions "Willy Wonka Jr.," now through July 20, Baltimore Summer Theatre Court Jesters present a youth-friendly musical that should leave the audience craving candy.

Stephen Sondheim has re-upped his worldwide publishing agreement with Warner/Chappell Music.

McCaela Donovan as Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme in Company One's "Assassins." We're in the middle of a presidential campaign, the argument goes, and it's anxiety-provoking enough that the Secret Service started ...

It is this Stephen Sondheim song that is perhaps the most well known tune from the play, A Little Night Music.

Stephen Sondheim's Follies , a great display piece for two generations of performers, is also a palpable reminder of the ageing process that affects us all, writes Michael Shmith.

Nik Walker during rehearsal for "Assassins" at the Boston Center for the Arts on July 3. "You have a show where you have some of the most hated people in our nation, and we just deal with them for two hours," ...

The cast of Columbia Basin College's production of Assassins spent time on a shooting range to get into the groove of shooting a weapon.

Stephen Sondheim was always ahead of his time. His incandescent 1973 Tony award-winner, "A Little Night Music," loosely adapted from Ingmar Bergman's film "Smiles of a Summer Night," was a great critical ...

The way director James P. Birder tells it, Music Theatre of St. Norbert College kept putting off repeating "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum." "We finally gave in to our desires," he said.

The Netflix instant viewing option combined with the purchase of the Roku to stream those movies and TV shows and such straight to your TV can also have the effect of bringing a theater directly into your ...

Great musicals usually put an extra bounce in your step as you leave the theatre.

Joan Vadeboncoeur: "Side by Side by Sondheim," an intimate musical of tunes by Broadway's legendary composer Stephen Sondheim launches the season for Salt City Center for the Performing Arts.

After first getting dazzled by stage lights at age 10, Palo Alto native Jonathan Shue went on to do nearly everything involved with theater at Palo Alto High School, including directing, playing the title role ...

The cast recording of the acclaimed revival of Gypsy - starring 2008 Tony winners Patti LuPone, Boyd Gaines and Laura Benanti - will arrive in stores Aug.

The Public Theater's 2008-09 season will include the long-awaited New York premiere of 'Bounce,' the Stephen Sondheim-John Weidman musical.

The timing could not be better. Stephen Sondheim's ''Assassins,'' a dark, disquieting musical portraying the lives of nine presidential killers or would-be killers, will have its Lehigh Valley premiere on July ...

Robert Frost, it would seem, was only two-thirds right. The forest that is at the heart of "Into the Woods" is not exactly lovely, but it certainly is dark and deep, a place where characters from a number of ...