Sondheim Dismembers âSweeneyâ
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Theater buffs have been worried sick about what would happen to âSweeney Toddâ when it was remade as a film.  Stephen Sondheim, who wrote the score, eagerly wielded the razor.
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A canceled play, a damaged theater, a playwright in hiding.
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The Broadway musical that broke a batch of records will play its final performance on Sunday, April 22.
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The tiny mask that covers scars on the Phantom&#39;s face lets &quot;The Phantom of the Opera&quot; have it both ways: He&#39;s disfigured and he&#39;s hot.
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The TV documentary "Children Will Listen," which debuted on PBS Thanksgiving night, demonstrated the comeback of musical theater in schools. It used a Kennedy Center production of Stephen Sondheim's "Into the Woods" by Washington, D.C., kids as its anchor.
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The cartoon favorite makes a killing at the box office.
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A new play suggests John Amery rebelled against his father's concealment of his Jewishness
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Actor Johnny Depp is afraid British actor Alan Rickman  will not want to work with him again. He is sure Alan had an awful time when Depp had to hold razors at his throat in the musical Sweeny Todd
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Bless Susan Stroman and New York City Ballet. With Ms. Stromanâs âDouble Feature,â august ballet audiences can indulge in an unaccustomed Broadway-style laugh riot.
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BBC Radio 1 is criticised for cutting the Pogues' hit Fairytale of New York to avoid offending listeners.
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Betty Comden, whose more than 60-year collaboration with Adolph Green produced the classic New York stage musical "On the Town," as well as "Singin' in the Rain," considered by many to be the best movie musical ever made, has died. She was 89.
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The Broadway musical that broke a batch of records will play its final performance on April 22.
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Playbill - The original Broadway cast album of the Lincoln Center Theater production of Stephen Sondheim's The Frogs, starring Nathan Lane and Roger Bart, is in stores starting Jan. 25.
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Idina Menzel, the Tony-winning star of "Wicked," fell through a trap door during the Saturday matinee of the Broadway musical and cracked a lower rib.
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Disney's uneven procession  of theatrical adaptations of its beloved film properties hits a  sour note with this charmless rendition of its smash 1989  animated film. Especially disappointing coming after the recent  superb version of "Mary Poppins," "The Little Mermaid" should  manage to attract its target audience through its title alone,  but longtime hit status seems far from assured.
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âSweeney Toddâ is as much a horror film as a musical. It is also something close to a masterpiece.
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Playbill - Following up the success of the Tony Award-winning revival of Assassins, The Roundabout Theatre Company teams with Gorgeous Entertainment Inc. to present another Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman musical, Pacific Overtures.