(JTA) — Stephen Sondheim, the Jewish lyricist and composer ... came writing the lyrics to Leonard Bernstein’s score for “West Side Story” in 1957, at age 27. Sondheim was born to Jewish ...

Following the arc of Sondheim’s extraordinary career, How Sondheim Can Change Your Life is rich with stories and insights ...

Six of Stephen Sondheim's musicals won Tony Awards and ... He also wrote the lyrics for West Side Story. His ballad Send in the Clowns - from the 1973 musical A Little Night Music - has been ...

Stephen Sondheim is widely acknowledged as the most innovative, most influential, and most important composer and lyricist in modern Broadway history. He is the winner of an Academy Award ...

A rare live recording of one of Stephen Sondheim's earliest musicals has ... The celebrated songwriter, who died last year, is best known for West Side Story and Gypsy. "This is the first original ...

For our West End season ... presents Cameron Mackintosh's Production of Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends. Directed by Matthew Bourne, side by side with Julia McKenzie, with choreography by Stephen ...

West Side Story by Stephen Sondheim is based on Shakespeare’s famous play, Romeo and Juliet. Sondheim transports the action to America in the 1950s, where American and Puerto Rican rival gangs ...

East West Players has a long history with “Pacific Overtures,” Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s 1976 musical about the opening of Japan to international trade by American warships in 1853 ...

East West Players has a long history with “Pacific Overtures,” Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s 1976 musical about the opening of Japan to international trade by American warships in 1853 ...