Packed with gossip and incident, this book is also a fascinating study in the gestation of genius ...

Author Daniel Okrent doesn't miss a beat analyzing the music, lyrics -- and complicated personality -- of the extremely ...

In the Oscar-nominated film Blue Moon, Broadway composer Oscar Hammerstein introduces songwriter Lorenz Hart to “Stevie,” his preteen neighbor, “a kind of walking encyclopedia of musical theater.” ...

Stephen Sondheim’s death in 2021, at 91, was a gut punch to musical theater fans. Showered with honors and tributes, he had begun to seem eternal, a cultural constant. Even his gnarliest shows enjoyed ...

Stephen Joshua Sondheim was born on March 22, 1930, in New York City to Herbert and Janet Sondheim, both of whom worked in the fashion industry. His early childhood was marked by privilege mixed with ...

A divorcee gets blackmailed by a camboy in a bingeable twisty thriller, and the musical master’s biography is gossipy and erudite. Here’s the pick of the week’s culture, taken from the Guardian’s best ...

Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, as well as new program elements specially paced for weekends. Our weekend show emphasizes interviews with writers, ...

Stephen Sondheim, the legendary American musical theater composer-lyricist and with the possible exception of Cole Porter, the greatest gay American lyricist, died suddenly November 26 at the age of ...

Recorded in June 2019, the album captures Broadway stars performing the music and lyrics of Jason Robert Brown and Stephen Sondheim alongside the songwriters themselves, in what would become ...

According to Variety, London theatre critic David Benedict will soon pen a new Stephen Sondheim biography for Random House, titled: "How Did It Happen: The Life and Career of Stephen Sondheim." The ...

Judy Collins, Mandy Patinkin, Renée Fleming, Michael R. Jackson, Melissa Errico, Tony Kushner, Sherman Irby and New York Times writers and editors pick 14 songs to seal the deal. A new London staging ...