Into the Woods continues at Roundabout Theatre Company’s Laura Pels Theatre, New York until 22 March. Star rating: 5 stars ***** A fresh breeze is blowing through Into the Woods. It’s not that anything ever seems stale about this enduring and always-compelling masterwork by James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim. But as re-envisioned by the prodigiously imaginative […]
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Preview – Tony winners aplenty in Off-Broadway season
Ron Cohen previews an Off-Broadway season packed with Broadway names. As is its custom, Off-Broadway is moving into the New Year with an eclectic array of musical offerings, packed with both revivals and new creations. Some boast prestigious names – including a batch of Tony winners from Broadway – and some are quite curious indeed. Here are some highlights […]
Musical Theatre 2014 – a reflection – what was your favourite?
From I Can’t Sing! and Urinetown in early 2014 to the recently opened Cats and City of Angels, here’s an overview of UK Musical Theatre 2014. Can you see your favourites? DECEMBER: City of Angels – Donmar Warehouse Josie Rourke’s wonderfully vibrant staging injects a whole new lease of life into a show that has never […]
Into the Woods – the movie – our verdict
Into the Woods opens in UK cinemas on 9 January 2015. As a longtime Sondheim fan and particular admirer of Into the Woods, the “be careful what you wish for” fantasy musical which the great man teased out of James Lapine’s clever book in 1986, it would be great to be wrong but where’s the […]
Into the Woods – Performance Preparation Academy
Into the Woods was performed by Performance Preparation Academy’s Musical Theatre Diploma third-year students at Bellerby Studio Theatre, Guildford. After the contemporary Into the Woods at the Rose & Crown in Walthamstow, it is back to the traditional version of the great Stephen Sondheim musical (book by James Lapine) and a seriously good one directed by Performance Preparation […]
Into the Woods – Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre
Into the Woods continues at continues at Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre, London until 31 October. All Star Productions – housed above Ye Olde Rose & Crown pub in Walthamstow, London – proves that fairytales are timeless by re-locating Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into the Woods to modern day Britain, complete with a cocaine-snorting […]
Broadway and Off-Broadway season – we preview what’s ahead
Ron Cohen writes: It’s almost autumn in New York but the thrill of first-nighting (as Vernon Duke expressed it in his classic song) won’t be felt on Broadway – at least as far as musicals are concerned – until mid-October when the first one of the fall opens, a revival of the enduring 1944 landmark On the Town. […]
The Ladies Who Lunch – The Pheasantry
The Ladies Who Lunch: A Celebration of Sondheim’s Women was performed at The Pheasantry, London. It’s hard to think of any composer who writes better songs, funny or sad, for the opposite sex than Stephen Sondheim and that view was strengthened when 22 of his best were given the full treatment by the talented quartette of Katy Secombe, Rebecca Caine, […]
Brush Up Your Sondheim – Royal Academy of Music
Craig Glenday writes… Brush Up Your Sondheim was a two-day Sondheim seminar organised by the Stephen Sondheim Society at the Royal Academy of Music. The event served up a smorgasbord of academic research, recitals, workshops and chat in celebration of Broadway’s greatest living composer/lyricist. Is it possible to spend two whole days discussing the work of Stephen […]
Into the Woods – Emporium Theatre, Brighton
Into the Woods continues at the Emporium Theatre, Brighton until 27 July. For the reprise of their 2014 production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s delightful fairy story musical Into the Woods, Chocolate Box Theatre brings it to a venue that offers a slightly bigger acting space than previously. It is still a feat of great […]
Into the Woods – Theatre du Chatelet, Paris
Into the Woods continues at Theatre du Chatelet, Paris, until 12 April. For a quarter of a century Parisians didn’t know Into the Woods from Babes in the Wood. Come to think of it, there are blank faces galore when you say “Into the Woods” in the UK too – but thanks to Chatelet supremo […]
Jennings and Le Prevost reprise My Fair Lady in Paris
Alex Jennings is reprising the Professor Higgins role that won him a 2003 Olivier Best Actor in a Musical Award in a revival of My Fair Lady at the Chatelet Theatre in Paris next month. Jennings took over the Higgins part from Jonathan Pryce at London’s Theatre Royal Drury Lane in a show that hit […]
