Tag Archives: Stephen Sondheim

West Side Story

A time-honoured musical gets a fresh makeover

Book by Arthur Laurents
Music by Leonard Bernstein
Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Directed by David Saint

The First National Tour of West Side Story. © Carol Rosegg 2011.

West Side Story has been romancing audiences for decades. Lucky for fans, the 1957 musical (inspired by Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet) with book by Arthur Laurents, [...]

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Assassins

Adam Brazier’s award-winning production lives to kill again
Presented by Birdland Theatre & Talk Is Free Theatre
By Stephen Sondheim (book by John Weidman)
Directed by Adam Brazier

Photo by Guntar Kravis.

The Theatre Centre was decked out like a sinister roadside carnival on Saturday for the opening of Birdland Theatre and Talk Is Free Theatre’s remount of Assassins. Winner of [...]

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A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum

Do as the Romans do — laugh yourself silly!

Book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart
Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Directed by Des McAnuff

The entire acting company of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum with Bruce Dow as Pseudolus in the centre. Photo by Cylla von Tiedemann.

All roads led to Rome on [...]

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