Sondheim, Stephen

Stephen Sondheim’s ‘Old Friends’ Review: A Broadway Party With 41 Songs

Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga lead the festivities in a new Broadway revue of the great musical dramatist’s work.

By Jesse Green

Actors and Actresses Content Type: Personal Profile Music Old Friends (Play) Salonga, Lea Sondheim, Stephen Theater Theater (Broadway)

Lea Salonga Is Never Getting Tired of Sondheim

The Tony-winning actress co-stars with Bernadette Peters in “Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends,” a show that is letting her surprise audiences with her comedy chops.

By Robert Ito

Actors and Actresses Company (Play) Deaths (Obituaries) Drama Desk Awards Gypsy (Play) Into the Woods (Play) Simon, Merle Louise Sondheim, Stephen Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Play) Theater Theater (Broadway)

Merle Louise Simon, a Sondheim Mainstay, Is Dead at 90

She originated roles in four of his Broadway musicals between 1959 and 1987, and won a Drama Desk Award for her performance in “Sweeney Todd.”

By Richard Sandomir

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Review: In ‘Gypsy,’ Audra McDonald’s Gonna Show It to Ya

Hold your hats and hallelujah, our leading musical tragedienne offers an ultra-dramatic Rose in George C. Wolfe’s Broadway revival.

By Jesse Green