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Parting is indeed sweet sorrow for Barbara Gaines as she departs Chicago Shakespeare Theater

After nearly 40 years, Gaines is exiting the world-renowned theater company she founded with a Chicago rooftop production.

Chicago Sun-Times

Groundhog Day review: a simply sublime return to The Old Vic

Stephen Sondheim once thought about turning the 1993 film “Groundhog Day” into a stage musical. He gave up on the idea, saying: “It cannot be improved. It’s perfect the way it is.” And he may have been right about that, said Clive Davis in The Times – but this “glorious…

The Week

Tony Award-nominee Sara Bareilles sees a future with both stage work and her music

When Sara Bareilles signed on for a two-week, stripped down production of “Into the Woods” off-Broadway, she had no idea the adventure would lead to Broadway and a Tony Award nomination

The Independent UK

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Things to do in Chicago June 1-7: The Mix

The Chicago Gospel Music Festival, ‘The Lloyd Price Musical’ and an Andy Warhol art exhibit are among the highlights of the week ahead.

Chicago Sun-Times

Schmigadoon season 2: all the musicals referenced in the show

After parodying the '50s, Schmigadoon season 2 references musicals from the '60s and '70s throughout its episodes. Here's all the ones we’ve caught.

WhatToWatch

A marvelous, minimalist ‘Into the Woods’ puts focus on Sondheim’s music

The human-scale simplicity serves the story in beautifully sung and deeply felt touring production.

Chicago Sun-Times

Sweeney Todd: behind the blockbuster take on Sondheim’s Broadway hit

Stephen Sondheim’s darkly funny quasi-opera has been remounted as one of the year’s biggest new productions

The Guardian - US

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'Schmigadoon!' gently mocks Broadway musicals in new season

Aaron Tveit has starred in some amazing Broadway shows, but some of the classics have eluded him

The Independent UK

Review: ‘Sweeney Todd’ on Broadway lets Sondheim’s tragedy howl. It will be a hot ticket

NEW YORK — Many Broadway revivals of musicals from decades past insist on revising, reconsidering and imposing. Thomas Kail’s triumphant revival of “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” does none of that. At once funny, scary and disarmingly moving, this must-see production is content to peel back any…

Tribune News Service

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street review – dazzling Broadway revival

Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford play Stephen Sondheim’s murderous Victorian couple in a bold and barnstorming take

The Guardian - US

Into The Woods review – Australian take on Sondheim masterpiece needs more time to soar

With standout turns from Esther Hannaford and Tamsin Carroll, and some inventive, whimsical choices, the fractured-fairytale musical fails to truly take off

The Guardian - AU

Stephen Sondheim's last musical finds a New York City stage

Stephen Sondheim’s last musical will be given an off-Broadway stage this year

The Independent UK

The best theatre to stream this month: The Boys Are Kissing, Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends and more

Our roundup of drama to watch at home includes Hans Christian Andersen on skates, a verbatim play five years in the making and poems from Ukraine

The Guardian - UK

Burr Ridge’s Eleri Ward continues her celebration of Sondheim on second album

Friday brings the release of Ward’s second indie-folk CD of Sondheim covers, “Keep a Tender Distance,” on Ghostlight Records.

Chicago Sun-Times

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The Independent UK

Sondheim covers on Instagram, TikTok paved Eleri Ward's path

Eleri Ward had Stephen Sondheim’s “Every Day a Little Death” stuck in her head

The Independent UK

What happened to melodies in today’s movie musicals?

Movie musicals used to promise tunes for everyone forever, but is that kind of songwriting a lost art? Tim Rice and The Greatest Showman’s Greg Wells talk to Will Taylor

Chicago Sun-Times

‘Into the Woods’ a magical journey worth taking at Paramount Theatre

Paramount’s production, directed by Jim Corti and Trent Stork, does the show justice, deftly managing to be immensely family friendly while also leaning hard into the musical’s mature themes and darker elements.

The Guardian - UK

Kit Hesketh-Harvey obituary

Writer, broadcaster and half of the renowned cabaret act Kit and the Widow

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The Independent UK

AP Top 25 Movies, by the numbers: From dollars to donkeys

The films from 2022 that topped the AP's inaugural Top 25 Movies poll yield a host of other numbers, facts, figures and trivia on close examination

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: What a difference a revival makes: 2 famously tricky Sondheim musicals shine in new outings

NEW YORK — At lunch recently in New York with a retired theater critic, I asked if he’d care to join me later in the week for a matinee of the touted Broadway revival of “Into the Woods.” No, he demurred. He had reviewed the original production, and the show,…

Fortune

Investors are in a race to acquire music rights. Here’s why they should be looking to Broadway instead in 2023

Both music and theatrical copyrights can run with little to no overhead and generate significant licensing income.

Inverse

'Glass Onion’ cameos: The biggest surprise celebrities in 'Knives Out 2'

From the other members of Benoit Blanc's 'Among Us' crew to his recognizable romantic partner, here’s what you should know about all the biggest celebrity cameos in Rian Johnson's 'Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.'

Salon

Cozy up to this "Knives Out" sequel

Rian Johnson's Netflix whodunit packs in more stars, more fun and even more bodies for your holiday viewing

The Guardian - US

‘It’s kind of crazy there wasn’t one’: inside the new Museum of Broadway

A splashy museum in New York pays tribute to the city’s long relationship with theatre from West Side Story to Hamilton

Chicago Tribune

Review: ‘Merrily We Roll Along’ is Sondheim’s musical anew at New York Theatre Workshop

NEW YORK — In life, as God and Stephen Sondheim understand, we roll along whether or not we choose to do so merrily.

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