Stephen Sondheim

Birth Name:

Stephen Joshua Sondheim

Birth Place:

New York City, New York, United States

Profession

Soundtrack, Music department, Writer, Actor, Producer, Camera department

Stephen Sondheim's Star-Studded Birthday Party Was Even Charming During the Technical Difficulties

Raúl Esparza, we feel for you

Mon, Apr 27, 2020

Stephen Sondheim's Star-Studded Birthday Party Was Even Charming During the Technical Difficulties

Meryl Streep, Christine Baranski, and Audra McDonald Melted the Internet With Boozy 'Ladies Who Lunch' Performance

Meryl, join The Good Fight!!!

Mon, Apr 27, 2020

Meryl Streep, Christine Baranski, and Audra McDonald Melted the Internet With Boozy 'Ladies Who Lunch' Performance

The Biz: Inside the New HBO Documentary Six By Sondheim

How fortunate for Stephen Sondheim fans that the Broadway musical maestro came of age in the television era. The new HBO documentary Six By Sondheim, premiering Monday at 9/8c, digs deep into TV talk and news program archives to provide a fast moving yet intimate portrait of America's greatest living composer and lyricist. The film also includes several new music-video style interpretations of Sondheim compositions. One includes a cameo by the legend himself in a performance of Opening Doors with Jeremy Jordan, America Ferrera, Laura Osnes and Darren Criss. Sondheim collaborator James Lapine, who directed and co-executive produced Six By Sondheim, offered a glimpse into the filmmaking process.

Mon, Dec 9, 2013

The Biz: Inside the New HBO Documentary Six By Sondheim

Monday Review: Six by Sondheim

Few love words as passionately as Broadway's master composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim, but there's one word that makes him cringe: "Hummable," a quality some (erroneously) find lacking in his challenging, rewarding scores. "Drives me up the wall," he growls. Which is why it's such an ironic delight when Sondheim performs as part of a new staging of his autobiographical "Opening Doors" production number (from the initially flop musical Merrily We Roll Along), playing a producer who bullies a team of young songwriters to conjure a "humm-umm-able melody."

Mon, Dec 9, 2013

Bernadette Peters on Smash, Karen's Lack of Desperation and What She'd Do on Glee

Ivy's famous Broadway mom will make her debut in Monday's episode of Smash — much to her overshadowed daughter's dismay -- and it looks like she's also reserved tickets to opening night. Bernadette Peters, who plays Mama Rose, er, Leigh Conroy, tells TVGuide.com that she'll return to the set of Smash next week to film the season finale. Is that because she's attending Ivy's big night as Marilyn? "I'm in the finale. I come to see my daughter, yes," Peters says, coyly. (No word on whether it's a conciliatory visit because, we suspect, Karen winds up clinching the role.) We talked to Peters about her role on Smash, Karen's lack of desperation (shouldn't she be wanting that part a whole lot more?) and the perilous life of a theater performer...

Wed, Mar 14, 2012