Sondheim Was a Critical Darling. Since His Death, He’s a Hitmaker, Too. The musicals of Stephen Sondheim often struggled at the box office during his lifetime, but since his death several have become huge hits on Broadway.
Fantasia Barrino-Taylor on ‘The Color Purple’ and a Painful Role Offered the chance to revisit her Broadway performance as the much-abused Celie, the star faced a difficult path.
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Revisits His ‘Illusion of Suffering’ on Broadway The “Appropriate” playwright has teamed up with the actors Sarah Paulson and Corey Stoll and the director Lila Neugebauer for the play’s Broadway debut. “Everybody onstage is a political statement,” he says.
Best Theater of 2023 Many of the plays and musicals that resonated this year deftly married elements of drama and comedy.
Stephen Sondheim Doesn’t Want to Be Your Savior Sondheim has been canonized, with revivals and revues everywhere. It’s a development he might have greeted with deep ambivalence.