Topic: Stephen Sondheim
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Old-fashioned Broadway is moving into the digital age. A current round of shows depend on million-dollar multimedia displays like never before, bringing video upstage after years of being relegated mostly to backdrop status. New musicals like "Sondheim on ...
A revelatory Broadway revue examines the music and lyrics of Stephen SondheimThere are a lot of wonderful moments, some intensely personal, in "Sondheim on Sondheim," the Roundabout Theatre Company's revelatory revue celebrating Stephen Sondheim's theatrical career. But nothing quite tops other cast ...
The legendary 'Anyone Can Whistle' displays an unwieldy ambition"Anyone Can Whistle" has an amazing score and an impossible book. It's also the stuff of Broadway legend: a nine-performance flop in 1964 despite music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by ...
A Broadway theater is renamed for composer Stephen Sondheim on his 80th birthdaySo what did Stephen Sondheim get Monday on his 80th birthday? A Broadway theater renamed for the composer of "Company," "Follies," "Sweeney Todd" and other memorable shows. The Henry Miller's ...
New York Philharmonic and Broadway stars celebrate Stephen Sondheim's 80th birthdayThe ladies in red brought down the house. Six Broadway divas, spanning several generations of musical theater, pretty much tore up Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall on Monday night as the New ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The leading lights of U.S. musical theater will sing "Happy Birthday" to the great Broadway composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim on his 80th birthday in two New York Philharmonic concerts next week. The concerts, on March 15 and March 16, ...
Sondheim's 'A Little Night Music' conquers tough Paris audiencesFrench audiences used to turn up their noses at Broadway-style musicals. Has a new staging of "A Little Night Music" won them over at last? Parisian theatergoers and critics are heaping praise on the ...
Angela Lansbury to collect first `Stephen Sondheim Award' of Washington-area theater companyActress Angela Lansbury will be the first recipient of the Stephen Sondheim Award from a Washington-area theater that has produced more of the composer's works than any other U.S. theater. Signature ...
My friendÕs cell phone rings as weÕre driving to see ÒCompanyÓ at UNLVÕs Judy Bayley Theatre on Friday night. After a few minutes of small talk, it becomes clear that the caller is distressed about her spouse. I stay silent and drive, ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Oscar-winning actress Catherine Zeta-Jones will make her Broadway debut in a revival of Stephen Sondheim's "A Little Night Music," producers said on Tuesday. The British actress, who won an Oscar for her supporting role in the 2006 screen ...