Best Sondheim
Sunday in the Park with George is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Lapine. Its first act imagines Georges Seurat creating A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, while the second follows a fictional descendant confronting artistic and personal pres...
Follies is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Goldman, first produced on Broadway in 1971. Former performers from the fictional Weismann Follies reunite in a theater scheduled for demolition, accompanied onstage by younger versions of themselves. Centering on the...
A Little Night Music is a 1973 stage musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by Hugh Wheeler. Inspired by Ingmar Bergman's film Smiles of a Summer Night, it follows intertwined romantic relationships among several couples in turn-of-the-century Sweden. Much of its score uses tri...
Stephen Sondheim’s “Send in the Clowns” is a poignant waltz from his 1973 musical *A Little Night Music*. The song explores themes of regret and lost love through its intricate melody and evocative lyrics. Frank Sinatra and Judy Collins notably recorded versions, cementing its place as a classic Ame...
Merrily We Roll Along is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by George Furth, adapted from the 1934 play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. The story moves backward in time from 1976 to 1957, tracing how the friendship of composer Franklin Shepard, writer Charley Kringas,...
Pacific Overtures is a 1976 musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by John Weidman. It dramatizes Japan's forced opening to Western trade beginning with Commodore Matthew Perry's arrival in 1853, then follows the political and cultural changes that accompany expanding foreign i...
Signature Theatre is a regional theater company located in Arlington, Virginia, that was founded in 1989. The institution is distinct for its programming model of dedicating entire theatrical seasons to the works of individual playwrights through extended residencies. It focuses on championing livin...
Side by Side by Sondheim is a musical revue built from songs by American composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim, with connecting narration that supplies context about the works and their creation. First presented in London in 1976, it transferred to Broadway in 1977. The program draws chiefly from S...
Sondheim on Sondheim is a musical revue conceived and directed by James Lapine that opened on Broadway in 2010. It combines live performances of songs from Stephen Sondheim's stage works with filmed interview material in which Sondheim discusses his life, craft, and collaborations. Rather than prese...
Putting It Together is a musical revue featuring songs composed by Stephen Sondheim, drawn from several of his Broadway works. The revue was conceived by Sondheim and Julia McKenzie and uses a cocktail-party setting to frame the songs around a narrative involving several characters. Its best-known p...
Marry Me a Little is a musical revue composed entirely of songs written by Stephen Sondheim. It was conceived by Craig Lucas and Norman René, premiering Off-Broadway in 1980. The show is notable for using songs cut from other Sondheim musicals to build a two-person narrative story.
Putting It Together is a musical revue assembled from songs by composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim, first presented in New York in 1993. Its numbers are drawn from several Sondheim musicals and are connected through the setting of an affluent cocktail party, where relationships and tensions emerg...
