In a revival of Sweeney Todd, Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford will open on Broadway on March 26. Time again for my occasional blog about happenings in the Sondheim universe. First, a bit of self-promotion: I learned recently that the publisher Rowman & Littlefield continues to offer a 30% discount on The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia. …
Did you get or give someone a Sondheim-related book during the holidays? As I mentioned last month, there are several good ones out there. Here’s another rundown with a few more items and some comments: Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created Sunday in the Park with George by James Lapine. This wonderful …
SINGER SONGWRITER ELERI WARD (Playbill.com) It’s hard to believe that it’s almost a year since Stephen Sondheim passed away on Nov. 26, 2021 — unexpectedly to be sure, but without suffering, just not waking up on the day after a pleasant Thanksgiving following a week of theater attendance. We should all be so lucky. While …
Fellow Theatergoers, If you’ve enjoyed my longtime coverage of theater in Greater Cincinnati (and occasionally beyond), I invite you to join my Facebook group Rick Pender’s Theater Stages & Scenes, where I post notices about shows and links to my reviews and features published in CityBeat. I’m now also writing occasional reviews of local play …
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I haven’t posted for a while, but a lot has been going on in the Sondheim universe. A couple of great pieces of news about the ongoing Broadway revival of Into the Woods that started as a well-reviewed New York City Center Encores! production then moved in July to the St. James Theatre for a …
The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia was published in April 2021. It’s been wonderful to hear from Sondheim enthusiasts who have acquired a personal copy and found it both useful and entertaining. But it’s an expensive volume, so I’m glad to see libraries including it in their collections. A young friend who’s a student at a small …
