Stephen Sondheim News

Theatre Review Mad, monstrous and very good Assassins, the 1991 musical currently getting a low-budget but high-calibre revival in Toronto, takes a sardonic look at the dark side of the American Dream.

The Murder, She Wrote star's career was marked at A Musical Celebration of Broadway at the city's Pierre New York hotel.

When the snow began to fall in Washington on Friday, Signature Theatre in Arlington knew it had a challenge. The company was only four days away from its first preview of 'Sweeney Todd,' the Stephen Sondheim musical and perennial box-office cash cow.

What to do with the 40 people who were expected on Saturday for the all-important technical rehearsal? In a matter of hours they established 'Camp Sweeney,' securing rooms at the Shirlington Hilton Garden Inn near the theater, stockpiling refreshments in case the Signature staff was snowbound also, and started the countdown to the first curtain.

From Saturday's Globe and Mail T he surprisingly awesome WinterCity festival serves up more fun with Temples to Terabytes , which explores the connection between modern Toronto and ancient India through music and dance.

Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin in Mirvish's An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin.

The Mount Carmel Area Junior-Senior High School Music Department announces its upcoming production, "Into The Woods," will be presented at 7:30 p.m. March 19 and 20 in the Richard F. Beierschmitt Auditorium of the high school.

The Syracuse Shakespeare Festival is on the move. Its next production, "Macbeth," opens a three-weekend run Friday in the New Times Theatre at the state fairgrounds.

Celebrate Valentine's Day with Jamie Cullum's LOVE AIN'T GONNA LET YOU DOWN EP released exclusively through iTunes on February 2, 2010.

Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Book by John Weidman. BirdLand Theatre and Talk Is Free Theatre.

Kate Baldwin, who received rave reviews for her work in the recent Broadway revival of Finian's Rainbow , will go it solo at Birdland in March.

Review ratings, awarded on a four-star basis, are provided by Star critics. T.O. Tix offers tickets, some discounted, for a variety of shows and productions.

"Everybody's got the right to be happy." Those words echo from the opening song from the new musical at the Greystone Theatre that opens this week.

The murderous barber "Sweeney Todd" will make his way onto the high school stage this weekend.

Menchu says hea TMs OC, Raymond says shea TMs choosy. It's the first time singers-siblings Raymond and Menchu Lauchengco are doing a back-to-back show - and it's not without a lot of side stories.

The new Broadway cast recording of West Side Story won the 2010 Grammy Award as Best Musical Show Album at the Jan.

The designers of the "Bye Bye Birdie" revival sought to create flash with limited resources.

Composer Stephen Sondheim will appear at the Harris Theater on March 4 and Broadway star Christine Ebersole on March 25 as part of A Life in the Theater, a series of performances and conversations featuring noted artists.

The musical Assassins, written by Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman is being brought to the intimate stage of St.

A recent e-wander yielded the following thought: Has the evolution of communications technology created a situation where many of literature's greatest devices no longer work? Think about it.

W Stephen Gilbert writes: Not being so much of a theatregoer, David Thomson omits one of Jean Simmons 's most significant performances in his typically shrewd obituary .