Arts
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Impromptu Sondheim Wakes Fill Piano Bars With Tears and Tunes
LaShonda Katrice Barnett had just finished a nice rooibos at a tea salon when she overheard some people at a…
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Stream These 7 Productions That Celebrate Stephen Sondheim’s Work
Stephen Sondheim, the composer and lyricist who died on Friday at age 91, had an unparalleled influence on contemporary theater.…
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Get to Know Sondheim’s Best in These 10 Videos
Songs are there to serve the story and the show, Stephen Sondheim insisted. That’s not to say that his poignant…
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Alice Waters Helps a Museum Cater to the Tastes of Art Lovers
LOS ANGELES — As the Hammer Museum emerges from last year’s pandemic shutdown, it has assembled a lineup of big…
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‘Elemental and Irreplaceable’: Stars Pay Tribute to Stephen Sondheim
Passionate tributes to Stephen Sondheim came quickly as the news of his death reached the theater world and beyond on…
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The Essential Musical Dramatist Who Taught Us to Hear
One of the greatest American composers, clearly the greatest lyricist — and, by virtue of those two rarely linked greatnesses,…
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Days Before Dying, Stephen Sondheim Reflects: ‘I’ve Been Lucky’
ROXBURY, Conn. — Stephen Sondheim stood by the gleaming piano in his study, surrounded by posters of international productions of…
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On Their Small Shoulders Rest Some Big Films
Jude Hill, clad in a white button-up shirt with a cheeky grin, is just as charming in real life as…
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The Wandering Creativity of Sophie Taeuber-Arp
There’s an object in the Museum of Modern Art’s retrospective of the Swiss polymath Sophie Taeuber-Arp that’s so covetable I…
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‘I Savor Everything’: A Soprano’s Star Turn at the Met Opera
The soprano Erin Morley is no stranger to the Metropolitan Opera, where she has been a fixture for over a…