One of the most indispensable and influential artists in the contemporary theatre, Stephen Sondheim was born in New York City in 1930…
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Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine
Unscripted
Like Oscar Wilde, who both penned imaginative literature and often insisted that life imitates art far more than art imitates life…
If Sondheim had a partial debt to Hammerstein, he was also consciously challenging himself to emulate the triumphant construction of a Hollywood favorite, The Wizard of Oz,a work whose score he lauded…
Among the many rich connections between A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Into the Woods is their uncommon fusion of multiple sources…
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About The Bard
William Shakespeare’s origins are obscure but the little evidence that we have suggests that he was christened in Stratford-on-Avon, April 26, 1564…
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“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”: Part 2
The critic Northrup Frye in “The Mythos of Spring” forcefully articulated this contrast between imagination and authority. Frye points out…
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“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”: Part 1
Both James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods and Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream trade upon the familiar…
PlayMakers takes audiences into the darker reaches of the forest with two tales of magic and transformation in the theater’s annual rotating repertory event with Into the Woods and A Midsummer Night’s Dream Nov. 1 to Dec. 7…
Scenic design is much more than a clever solution to the challenge of providing for the physical requirements of a text. Its purpose is often subversive…