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Stephen Sondheim

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16 days ago

Jeeves Again review – new Jeeves and Wooster stories by celebrity fans

This collection of new short stories about Bertie and his valet pays homage to the genius of PG Wodehouse – just in time for Christmas

As with most of the giants of late 19th- and early 20th-century E…

19 days ago

The flop that finally flew: why did it take 40 years for Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along to soar? ⊕⊕

Its 1981 New York premiere was a disaster but this told-in-reverse musical became a Tony award-winning hit with Daniel Radcliffe. The film version is a tear-jerking joy

I have made enough mistakes as …

4 months ago

‘A privilege and a great pleasure’: inside the 5,000-item Stephen Sondheim collection

A treasure trove of manuscripts, notebooks and recordings from the theatre legend has been acquired by the Library of Congress in Washington DC

Mark Horowitz had done his homework before Stephen Sondh…

5 months ago

Don’t cry for me, all you boozers! The trouble with shifting Evita’s big balcony number from stage to street

In the new Evita at the London Palladium, Rachel Zegler sings from the theatre’s actual balcony – meaning the big-paying audience doesn’t experience what passersby get for free. Could this gimmick ca…

6 months ago

PATRICK MARMION reviews Here We Are at the National Theatre: Top-notch cast... but Sondheim's send-off is flimsy and forgettable

The National Theatre has really pushed the boat out for the last show by the late god of musical theatre, Stephen Sondheim, but not even they can make this mongrel sing.

‘We’re not here to slander Sondheim!’ Inside the master’s wild final musical, completed at last

Here We Are, a satirical mashup of two surrealist movie masterpieces, was finished after musicals maestro Stephen Sondheim died – outraging some fans. As the show hits Britain, its stars and creators…

10 months ago

‘I’d dress as Judy Garland and scare my parents’: Rufus Wainwright’s honest playlist

The singer-songwriter rises to Bruce Springsteen and loves the Eurythmics. But why has he had to rebrand as Wainwright?

The song I do at karaoke
My daughter is a typical teenager. She’s 13 and not in…

‘We were booed. I felt proud’: Daniel Evans on his rollercoaster journey to RSC supremo

The joint RSC boss is on unstoppable form, making a blistering return to the stage with a 4:48 Psychosis performed in the small hours – and an Edward II that will be a ‘screw you’ to his school bulli…

‘I came down here to die’: the untold story of the first JFK assassination attempt

In a fascinating new book, the forgotten tale of Richard Pavlick, who tried to kill JFK in 1960, is brought to light

“Everybody’s got the right / To their dreams,” goes the lyric in Stephen Sondheim’s…

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