Initial casting has been confirmed for the West End transfer of Jordan Fein’s multi-award-winning production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s magical musical Into the Woods.
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West End transfer season beckons for The Bridge’s Into the Woods
Jordan Fein’s multi-award-winning production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s magical musical Into the Woods will become the first West End transfer for London’s Bridge Theatre.
Jonathan Bailey and Ariana Grande to lead major new London production of Sunday in the Park With George
Olivier Award winner Jonathan Bailey and Grammy Award winner Ariana Grande will lead a major new London production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Sunday in the Park With George.
Into the Woods – Bridge Theatre
Into the Woods continues at the Bridge Theatre, London until 30 May 2026. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Fein has respectfully shown us what a gorgeous show this is with no need for high-tech bells nor gimmicky whistles.
The Bridge Theatre’s Into the Woods – the full cast
Casting has been confirmed for the Bridge Theatre’s eagerly anticipated upcoming production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s magical musical Into the Woods.
Paying tribute to American composer and lyricist William Finn
Actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson and director and writer James Lapine were among the many from inside and outside the theatre industry to pay tribute to double Tony Award-winner William Finn, following his death at the age of 73.
Jordan Fein to direct new production of Into the Woods at the Bridge Theatre
London’s Bridge Theatre will present a major new production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s magical musical Into the Woods later this year.
Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford to star in Broadway revival of Sweeney Todd
Stage, screen and recording artist Josh Groban will play the Demon Barber, Sweeney Todd opposite Tony Award-winner Annaleigh Ashford as the resourceful Mrs Lovett in the first Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s multi-award-winning musical thriller Sweeney Todd since 1980. Produced by Jeffrey Seller and directed by Hamilton’s Tony Award-winning director Thomas Kail, […]
Passion – Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester
Passion continues at the Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester until 5 June 2022. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Originally announced prior to the composer’s death last year, Hope Mill Theatre’s revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Passion is now dedicated to his memory, and what more fitting tribute could there be than this, arguably one of his […]
West End stars feature in cast of Into The Woods at Theatre Royal Bath
A high-powered cast has been assembled for director Terry Gilliam and choreographer Leah Hausman’s highly-anticipated production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s magical musical Into The Woods at the Theatre Royal Bath this summer. The co-creator of the Olivier Award winning Shockhead Peter, Julian Bleach (The Grinning Man) will play Mysterious Man with Olivier nominees […]
Dean John-Wilson and Kelly Price join the cast of Passion at the Hope Mill Theatre
Dean John-Wilson and Kelly Price will join the previously announced Ruthie Henshall in Hope Mill Theatre’s highly-anticipated re-imagining of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Passion later this year. Wilson (Aladdin, Prince Edward Theatre) will play Giorgio alongside Olivier nominee Price (What’s New Pussycat, Birmingham Rep) as Clara in the production which is due to play […]
Into The Woods – Lyric Theatre, Belfast
Into The Woods continues at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast until 27 February 2022. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The Northern Ireland Opera production of Into The Woods currently gracing the stage of the rather lovely Lyric Theatre in Belfast is the first full professional staging in the UK of a Stephen Sondheim […]
Full cast announced for Northern Ireland Opera’s Into The Woods
An 18-strong cast of West End artists, and performers from across the musical theatre, opera and theatre worlds has been assembled for Northern Ireland Opera’s upcoming production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s magical musical Into The Woods. Featuring performers hailing predominantly from Northern Ireland, the cast for the production which will debut at Belfast’s […]
Theatre Royal Bath provides a home for Gilliam and Hausman’s Into the Woods
Director Terry Gilliam and choreographer Leah Hausman’s highly-anticipated production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s magical musical Into the Woods has found a new home at the Theatre Royal Bath. Just a few weeks after The Old Vic announced the shock decision to cancel the production which was to have provided the finale of the […]
NI Opera to return to Belfast’s Lyric Theatre with production of Into the Woods
Northern Ireland Opera will return to Belfast’s Lyric Theatre early next year with a major new production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s magical musical Into the Woods. NI Opera’s artistic director Cameron Menzies will take charge of the epic production which will shine a spotlight on the best of Northern Irish music and creative […]
Ruthie Henshall leads re-imagining of Sondheim and Lapine’s Passion at the Hope Mill Theatre
Olivier Award winner and popular musical theatre performer Ruthie Henshall (Les Miserables, Miss Saigon, Oliver!, Crazy For You, Chicago, Billy Elliot) will lead a reimagining of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s multi-award-winning Passion at the Hope Mill Theatre for a limited run from 5 May to 5 June 2022. Under the direction of Michael Strassen […]
Innovative production of Into The Woods to be staged at The Old Vic
Monty Python’s innovative Terry Gilliam and renowned choreographer Leah Hausman will co-direct a reimagined production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s magical musical Into The Woods at The Old Vic in 2022. Announced as part of The Old Vic: Back Together season, a hybrid digital and live programme, which is due to begin in July, […]
West End production of Sunday in the Park With George is postponed until 2021
The highly anticipated West End season of Sunday in the Park with George, starring Academy Award nominee Jake Gyllenhaal and Tony Award winner Annaleigh Ashford, has been postponed until further notice, following the temporary closure of theatreland this spring. Presented by Ambassador Theatre Group Productions, Riva Marker and Jeanine Tesori in association with New York […]
First casting news for Falsettos premiere
An all-star cast will take to the stage in the long-awaited UK premiere of double Tony Award-winning musical Falsettos at The Other Palace this summer. Funny Girl’s Natasha J Barnes (American Idiot, Arts Theatre, Wasted, Southwark Playhouse) will play Cordelia alongside Daniel Boys (The Boys in the Band, Park Theatre, UK tour, Vaudeville Theatre, Spamalot, […]
Sunday in the Park With George starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Annaleigh Ashford opens at the Savoy Theatre in June 2020
Tickets have gone on sale today for a strictly limited season of Sunday in the Park With George starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Annaleigh Ashford and directed by Sarna Lapine, at the Savoy Theatre. Preview performances will begin on 11 June 2020, with the final performance taking place on 5 September 2020. Official opening night to […]
European premiere for Little Miss Sunshine musical
Off-beat musical Little Miss Sunshine will receive its European premiere next spring with a new production at London’s Arcola Theatre ahead of a UK tour launching at the New Wolsey Theatre in Ipswich. Presented by Selladoor Worldwide and Arcola Theatre, the Off-Broadway hit will open with a seven-week season in London beginning on 21 March […]
Into the Woods – Cockpit Theatre
Into the Woods continues at the Cockpit Theatre, London until 24 June 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into the Woods opened on Broadway in 1987 and won three Tony Awards. Seen some years later in London in an award-winning production at the Phoenix Theatre with a […]
All Star Productions’ Into the Woods to return to London
Award-winning All Star Productions has teamed up with Trilby Productions and London’s The Cockpit to stage a fresh new production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into the Woods next month. Following on from a sold-out run in 2014 at All Star’s home base, Walthamstow’s Ye Olde Rose and Crown, the new production of Sondheim […]
Claybourne Elder on covering Jake Gyllenhaal and his London cabaret, You and Me and Sondheim
CLAYBOURNE ELDER has just finished portraying the character of the soldier Napoleon in Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Sunday in the Park With George at the Hudson Theatre on Broadway – the first Sondheim production to ever gross more than $1 million in a single week. The fact that its leading man is Jake Gyllenhaal […]
Sunday in the Park With George – Hudson Theatre, New York
Sunday in the Park With George continues at the Hudson Theatre, New York until 23 April. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Has any work of art ever been more imaginatively celebrated by another work of art than in Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Sunday in the Park With George? In Act I, […]
Falsettos – Walter Kerr Theatre, New York
Falsettos continues at the Walter Kerr Theatre, New York until 8 January. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ There’s been a lot of chatter as to how this revival of Falsettos, the Broadway musical that premiered in 1992, would resonate today. Would this once envelope-pushing show, with its in-the-face depiction of gay relationships as well […]
Interview – Noah Brody on bringing Fiasco Theater’s Into The Woods to London
NOAH BRODY is co-artistic director with Ben Steinfeld of Fiasco Theater – a US-based actor-run ensemble that until recently specialised in workshopping and presenting small-scale productions of Shakespeare. That changed in 2013 when the group tackled their first full-scale musical: Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s fairytale mash-up Into the Woods. Fiasco’s much-reduced production ran for […]
Rehearsals begin for Fiasco’s Into the Woods Menier debut
Rehearsals have begun for Fiasco Theater’s innovative production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into the Woods at London’s Menier Chocolate Factory. The US theatre company’s production, featuring the original US cast, arrives in the UK fresh from critical success in New York where it received the 2015 Lucille Lortel Award for Best Revival. Cast […]
Fiasco Theater’s hit Into the Woods to play the Menier Chocolate Factory
London’s Menier Chocolate Factory is to host US theatre company Fiasco Theater’s innovative production of Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods this summer. The production, which will feature the original US cast, will arrive in the UK fresh from critical success in New York where it received the 2015 Lucille Lortel Award for Best Revival. Using […]
Into the Woods – Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
Into the Woods continues at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester until 16 January. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Beloved by many, Stephen Sondheim’s much-revived exploration of storybook happy ever afters is, nonetheless, a middle-ranking entry in the pre-eminent US musical maestro’s canon – many places above his rare misfires but quite a few rungs below the […]
Interview – Gillian Bevan goes Into the Woods via Manchester
Officially opening this week at the Manchester Royal Exchange is a new production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s dark fairytale mash-up, Into the Woods. In the central role of The Witch is local lass GILLIAN BEVAN, who was born just seven miles down the A6 in Stockport. As one of the UK’s most experienced Sondheim proponents, […]
Guildford School of Acting – Into the Woods
Into the Woods is performed by the Guildford School of Acting 3rd Years at the Ivy Arts Centre, Guildford. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The Guildford School of Acting’s love-in with the works of Stephen Sondheim – Into the Woods follows their summer productions of Anyone Can Whistle and […]
Exclusive – soprano Natalie Dessay will star in Sondheim’s Passion at Theatre du Chatelet
The Theatre du Chatelet in Paris has pulled off quite a coup in signing the world-acclaimed French coloratura soprano Natalie Dessay to sing Fosca in their fifth Stephen Sondheim production, Passion, next spring. There was no Sondheim this year after A Little Night Music (2011), Sweeney Todd (2012), Sunday in the Park With George (2013) and Into the Woods (2014), but […]
Into the Woods – Roundabout Theatre Company, New York
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 […]
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 – 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 […]
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 […]
