Packed with gossip and incident, this book is also a fascinating study in the gestation of genius ...

Author Daniel Okrent doesn't miss a beat analyzing the music, lyrics -- and complicated personality -- of the extremely ...

Bit by bit, Cameron Mackintosh has been putting together the masterpiece that is his latest musical project. Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends, a tribute to his old friend who passed away before seeing ...

Recorded in June 2019, the album captures Broadway stars performing the music and lyrics of Jason Robert Brown and Stephen Sondheim alongside the songwriters themselves, in what would become ...

A divorcee gets blackmailed by a camboy in a bingeable twisty thriller, and the musical master’s biography is gossipy and erudite. Here’s the pick of the week’s culture, taken from the Guardian’s best ...

When Mark Eden Horowitz, a senior music specialist at the Library of Congress, created a show-and-tell of the Library's music collection for Broadway legend Stephen Sondheim back in May of 1993, he ...

Our love of Stephen Sondheim is approaching the “Beatlemania” phase. One wonders what the Broadway maestro would have made of “Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends,” which opened Thursday at the Ahmanson ...

Does Broadway need another Stephen Sondheim revue? Sure, if performed by his old friends. Given the late Sondheim’s godlike status among musical theater fans, it’s hardly surprising that there are ...

In November 2021 the world lost Stephen Sondheim. This gifted composer/lyricist raised the songwriting bar for decades. Not only did his songs contain lush, melodic and completely original chords, his ...

Indeed, the hottest ticket on the Great White Way at the moment, judging from what people are willing to pay for it, is Sondheim's notoriously troubled musical-that-goes-backwards, Merrily We Roll ...

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On Tuesday, some collectibles from the personal homes of Stephen Sondheim, the legendary Broadway composer and lyricist, surprised even Sondheim die-hards when the rarities netted sky-high bids at a ...