Magazine and Newspaper Articles, Part One
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Chronologically listed (for the most part.)
Go to Magazine and Newspaper Articles, Part Two: 1996 - Present.
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- Brooks Atkinson [review of Gypsy]
New York Times, May 22, 1959
- Walter Kerr [review of Gypsy]
New York Herald Tribune, May 22, 1959
- Brooks Atkinson "Merman in Gypsy"
New York Times, May 31, 1959
- J. S. Wilson "Sondheim: Lyricist and Composer"
New York Times, March 2, 1960
- Willima K. Zinsser "On Stage: Stephen Sondheim"
Horizon, July 1961
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- Walter Kerr [review of Do I Hear a Waltz]
New York Herald Tribune, March 19, 1965
- Richard Watts, Jr. [review of Do I Hear a Waltz]
New York Post, March 19, 1965
- Howard Taubman [review of Do I Hear a Waltz]
New York Times, March 19, 1965
- Howard Taubman "Cuckoo Into Waltz"
New York Times, March 28, 1965
- John S. Wilson "Sondheim: Lyricist and Composer" [includes interview]
New York Times, March 6, 1966
- David Dachs "And Then I (Wish I) Wrote"
High Fidelity / Musical America, June 1969
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- Hubert Saal "How to Play Hal Prince"
Newsweek, July 26, 1971
- New York Post, July 31, 1971
- Bruce Bahrenburg "The Sound of Sondheim"
Performing Arts, October 1971
- Burt Shevelove "All About A Funny Thing Happened on the Way
to the Forum"
Performing Arts, October 1971
- David Brudnoy "Follies in Loveland"
National Review, October 8, 1971
- Dan Sullivan "Stephen Sondheim Now Sleeping Giant of Lyricism"
Los Angeles Times, October 10, 1971
- John Kane "Company: A New Landmark?"
Plays and Players, February 1972
- W. Horwood "Witty Words — Original Tunes" [review of Company]
Crescendo International, April 1972
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- Vincent Canby [review of The Last of
Sheila]
New York Times, June 15, 1973
- Stephen Farber "Who Murdered Sheila? It's Worth Finding Out"
[review of The Last of Sheila]
New York Times, July 29, 1973
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- William B. Collins "Sondheim's Magic of Night Music" [review
of A Little Night Music, National
Touring Company]
Philadelphia Inquirer, March 7, 1974
- Paul Gardner "Frogs They Would A-Swimming Go" [review of
The Frogs]
New York Times, May 19, 1974
- Mel Gussow "Frogs in a Pool" [review of The Frogs]
New York Times, May 23, 1974
- Paul Kresh "Sing Out, Angela!" [review of the London Gypsy recording]
Stereo Review, July 1974
- Clive Barnes "Gypsy Bounces Back With Zest and Lilt" [review of Gypsy]
New York Times, September 24, 1974
- N. Leighton Kerner "Stephen Sondheim: Composer"
Music News, V4 #2, 1974
- Paul Sheren and Tom Sutcliffe "Stephen Sondheim and the American Musical"
Theater '74 [Sheridan Morley, editor]; London: Hutchinson, 1974
- N. Leighton Kerner "Stephen Sondheim: Composer"
Musical Newsletter, June 1975
- Ethan Mordden "The Once and Future American Opera"
Opera News, August 1975
- Douglas Watt "Musical Events: Popular Records" [reviews]
The New Yorker, August 11, 1975
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- Peter Reilly [review of Side by Side by Sondheim recording]
Stereo Review, January 1977
- "Brit. Cast in Sondheim Revue Hears Alien Squawk from Equity"
Variety, March 2, 1977
- Martin Gottfried "Foggy Sondheim by British Cast" [review of Side by Side by Sondheim]
New York Post, April 19, 1977
- Clive Barnes [review of Side by Side by Sondheim]
New York Times, April 19, 1977
- Douglas Watt "The Best of Sondheim" [review of Side by Side by Sondheim]
New York Daily News, April 19, 1977
- Variety, April 20, 1977
- Newsweek, May 2, 1977
- New York, May 2, 1977
- The New Yorker, May 2, 1977
- Mel Gussow "How Side by Side Came to This Side"
New York Times, May 7, 1977
- <[review of Side by Side by Sondheim]
The New Yorker, June 13, 1977
- [review of the film of A Little Night Music]
Variety, September 21, 1977
- Vincent Canby [review of the film of A Little Night Music]
New York Times, March 8, 1978
- Tom Allen "Send in the Pros" [review of the film of A Little Night Music]
Village Voice, March 20, 1978
- Stephen Sondheim "The Musical Theatre: A Talk by Stephen Sondheim"
Dramatists Guild Quarterly, Autumn 1978
- Thomas P. Adler "The Musical Dramas of Stephen Sondheim: Some Critical Approaches"
Journal of Popular Culture, Winter 1978
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- H. S. Lee "Top Broadway Composer — Only One Hit Money Song"
Songwriters Review V34 #2, 1979
- Gerald Berkowitz "The Metaphor of Paradox in Sondheim's Company"
Philological Papers #25, 1979
- New York Times, February 14, 1980
- New York Daily News, February 15, 1980
- New York Post, February 15, 1980
- Variety, February 20, 1980
- Time, February 25, 1980
- George Heymont "Madness Is Its Own Reward — Especially on the Operatic Stage"
Fugue, March 1980
- New York, March 3, 1980
- "Broadway Followup" [review of Sweeney Todd]
Variety, March 19, 1980
- Paul Wittke [review of Sweeney Todd]
The Musical Quarterly, April 1980
- James Fenton "The Barberous Crimes of Sondheim and Prince" [review of the London Sweeney Todd]
[London] Sunday Times, July 6, 1980
- Robert Cushman "The Demon Barber Strikes Again" [review of the London Sweeney Todd]
London Observer, July 6, 1980
- John S. Wilson [review of Marry Me a Little]
New York Times, November 2, 1980
- New York Times, March 14, 1981
- Edith Oliver [review of Marry Me a Little]
The New Yorker, March 23, 1981
- Michael Feingold "Singing Each to Each" [review of Marry Me a Little]
Village Voice, April 1, 1981
- Paul Kresh [review of Marry Me a Little recording]
Stereo Review, July 1982
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- New York Times, March 6, 1983
- Los Angeles Times, March 18, 1983
- Frank Rich "Sondheim Says Goodbye to Broadway -- For Now"
New York Times, July 24, 1983
- Chicago Tribune, October 14, 1983
- Vogue, April 1984
- Samuel G. Freedman "The Creative Mind: The Words and Music of Stephen Sondheim"
New York Times Magazine, April 1, 1984
- New York Times, April 4, 1984
- Chicago Sunday Tribune, April 15, 1984
- Carey Blyton "Sondheim's Sweeney Todd - The Case for the Defence"
Tempo #149, June 1984
- R. Boot "Summing Up Stephen Sideline"
Vanity Fair, July 1984
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- William Albright [review of Houston Grand Opera's Sweeney Todd]
Opera [UK], October 1984
- Donal Henahan "Why Can't Verdi Voices Handle Sondheim?" [review of New York City Opera's Sweeney Todd]
New York Times, October 21, 1984
- Frank Rich [review of the NY revival of Pacific Overtures]
New York Times, October 26, 1984
- Los Angeles Times, October 26, 1984
- Linda Winer "Stephen Sondheim"
USA Today, October 29, 1984
- E. Oliver [review of the NY revival of Pacific Overtures]
The New Yorker, November 5, 1984
- Eileen Blumenthal "ReOrientations" [review of the NY revival of Pacific Overtures]
Village Voice, November , 1984
- Stephen Holden "The Passion of Stephen Sondheim"
Atlantic Monthly, December 1984
- Maclean's, December 24, 1984
- P. J. Smith [review of New York City Opera's Sweeney Todd]
Opera [UK], January 1985
- Bill Zakariason "The Met Begins Its Second Century"
Ovation, January 1985
- Chicago Tribune, April 29, 1985
- Linda Winer "Sondheim in His Own Words"
American Theatre, May 1985
- New York Times, May 24, 1985
- Sylvie Drake "Merrily Rolls Along in La Jolla" [review of the La Jolla Merrily We Roll Along]
Los Angeles Times, June 18, 1985
- Dan Sullivan "Can Merrily Roll Back to Broadway?"
Los Angeles Times, July 7, 1985
- New York Times, September 9, 1985
- Frank Rich "Sondheim's Follies Evokes Old Broadway "
New York Times, September 15, 1985
- "Talent in Action" [review of the Follies concert]
Billboard, September 21, 1985
- People, September 23, 1985
- "The Songs of Sondheim"
Stereo Review, October 1985
- Sheryl Flatow "Making Connections"
Opera News, November 1985
- Laurie Winer "Setting the Record Straight" [article about the New York Philharmonic Follies concert]
Wall Street Journal, November 6, 1985
- Stephen Holden "This is the Music I Love. It is My Roots"
[article on the making of Streisand's The
Broadway Album]
New York Times, November 10, 1985
- David Hirst "The American Musical and the American Dream: From Show Boat to Sondheim
New Theatre Quarterly #1, 1985
- Michael Billington "Pacific Conquest for Sondheim"
The Guardian [London], May 3, 1986
- William A. Henry III and John Edward Gallagher "More Than Song and Dance"
Time, June 16, 1986
- Chicago Tribune, December 7, 1986
- Chicago Tribune, December 14, 1986
- Jon Alan Conrad "Taking Stock of Sondheim"
Opus, V2 #4, 1986
- Frederic Silber "Sing a Song of Sondheim"
Fanfare, V9 #4, 1986
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- Eugen K. Bristow and J. Kevin Butler "Company, About Face! The Show That Revolutionized the American Musical"
American Music V5 #3, 1987
- Mark Steyn "A Funny Thing Happened to Sondheim"
Drama #165, 1987
- Thom Sutcliffe "Sondheim and the Musical"
Musical Times #128, 1987
- David van Leer "Putting It Together: Sondheim and the Broadway Musical"
Raritan #7, 1987
- Tom Sutcliffe "Sondheim and the Musical"
Music Today, September 1987
- J. Sams "Sondheim's Operatic Overtures" [article about English National Opera's Pacific Overtures]
Opera [UK], September 1987
- Rodney Milnes [review of English National Opera's Pacific Overtures]
Opera [UK}, November 1987
- Stephen Banfield [review of English National Opera's Pacific Overtures]
Music Today, November, 1987
- Sheryl Flatow "Sing a Song of Sondheim"
Playbill, January 1988
- Gerald Weales [review of Into the Woods]
Commonweal, January 13, 1988
- US News and World Report, February 1, 1988
- John Podhoretz "The American Musical's Last Hope"
American Spectator, March 1988
- Wayne Johnson "A Masterful Production of a Bittersweet Musical" [review of Seattle production of Merrily We Roll Along
Seattle Times, May 6, 1988
- [review of Follies in Concert video]
Billboard, May 21, 1988
- New York Times, May 10, 1988
- Chicago Tribune, June 12, 1988
- David Patrick Stearns "Making Overtures: Stephen Sondheim"
Gramophone, August 1988
- Rodney Milnes "Towards the Great American Opera"
Opera [UK], October 1988
- Nina Mankin "The PAJ Casebook #2: Into the Woods"
Performing Arts Journal V11 #1, 1988
- Barbara Isenberg [review of Into the Woods]
Los Angeles Times, January 8, 1989
- "Broadway Followup" [review of Into the Woods]
Variety, February 8, 1989
- The New Republic, April 3, 1989
- Insight, August 28, 1989
- "Broadway Followup" [review of NY revival of Sweeney Todd]
Variety, September 20, 1989
- Time, September 25, 1989
- New York, October 2, 1989
- Frank Rich "Gypsy is Back on Broadway with a Vengeance"
[review of Gypsy]
New York Times, November 17, 1989
- Variety, November 22, 1989
- Laurie Winer "Why Sondheim's Women Are Different"
New York Times, November 26, 1989
- Mervyn Rothstein "With Three Hits Now on Broadway, Stephen Sondheim Writes On"
New York Times, November 27, 1989
- George W.Martin "On the Verge of Opera: Stephen Sondheim"
Opera Quaterly, V6 #3, 1989
- The New Republic, January 1, 1990
- New York Times, January 22, 1990
- Mervyn Rothstein "A Sondheim Survivor Rises Again" [article about the Arena Merrily We Roll Along]
New York Times, February 10, 1990
- Frank Rich "A Show Keeps Coming Back, Getting Closer Every Orbit" [review of the Arena Merrily We Roll Along]
New York Times, February 27, 1990
- Sheridan Morley "Side by Side with the Sondheim Art"
[London] Sunday Times Magazine, March 4, 1990
- Michael Billington "The Creation Conundrum"
The Guardian [London], March 17, 1990
- Rodney Milnes [review of the London Sunday in the Park With George]
Opera [UK], May 1990
- New York, August 20, 1990
- Michael Feingold "Night Music at the Opera" [review of the NYCO A Little Night Music]
Village Voice, August 21, 1990
- Robert Jay Lifton "Assassination: The Ultimate Public Theater"
New York Times, September 9, 1990
- New York Times, September 30, 1990
- New York Times, November 7, 1990
- Ken Mandelbaum "How Did You Get to Be Here, Mr. Sondheim?"
[review of the Signature production of Merrily We Roll Along]
Theatre Week V3 #29, 1990
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- Irv Lichtman "Sooner or Later, Songwriters (Don't) Always Get Their Oscar"
Billboard, April 13, 1991
- Robert L. McLaughlin "No One is Alone: Society and Love in the Musicals of Stephen Sondheim"
Journal of American Drama and Theatre, 1991
- Alfred Mollin "Mayhem and Morality in Sweeney Todd"
American Music #9, 1991
- Martin Gottfried "There Won't Be Trumpets"
Theater Week, June 8, 1992
- "Stephen Sondheim is Still Here"
Newsweek, June 22, 1992
- Richard Traubner "A Celebration of Sondheim"
American Record Guide, September 1992
- Jan Stuart "D. A. Pennebaker and Company: A Legendary Documentary
of Yesterday's Broadway" [article about the Company documentary]
Newsday, January 1, 1993
- Stephen Schiff "Deconstructing Sondheim"
The New Yorker, March 8, 1993
- Jan Stuart "A Return to a Sondheim Summit" [review of the
Company reunion concerts]
Newsday, April 13, 1993
- Paul Markillie "The Sondheim Phenomenon"
The Economist, June 12, 1993
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- Annette Grant "Line By Line By Sondheim"
New York Times Magazine, March 20, 1994
- James Kaplan "The Cult of Saint Stephen Sondheim"
New York, April 4, 1994
- Robert Snyder "Funny Things Happen on the Way to Broadway"
[review of Martin Gottfried's book Sondheim]
Forward, April 8, 1994
- Anthony Tommasini "All the Talk of Stephen Sondheim Misses the Heart of the Matter"
Christian Science Monitor, July 28, 1994
- David Patrick Stearns "`Whistle' an unhappy tune for Lansbury"
USA Today, April 6, 1995
- Don Heckman "Sondheim's Swingin' Session"
Los Angeles Times, April 9, 1995
- Aileen Jacobson [review of Forum]
Newsday, April 20, 1995
- Christopher John Farley [review of "Color and Light"]
Time, May 15, 1995
- John J. O'Connor "Sondheim and Lyrics That Still Explode" [review of Sondheim's appearance on Inside the Actors' Studio]
New York Times, June 7, 1995
- Gene Sloan [review of Anyone Can Whistle
concert recording]
USA Today, July 27, 1995
- Michael Kuchawa "Sondheim Turns Failure Into Fund-raiser" [article about Anyone Can Whistle
concert recording]
Associated Press, August 27, 1995
- Mark K. Fulk & Angela B. Howard "What We Laugh About When We Laugh About Stephen Sondheim's Assassins"
Popular Music and Society, Fall 1995
- John Podhoretz "The Brilliant Show That Killed Broadway" [article about Company
The Weekly Standard, October 30, 1995
- Hedy Weiss "A Little Ambivalent Music from Sondheim"
Chicago Sun-Times, November 5, 1995
- Hedy Weiss "Sondheim Illuminates the Soul in Love"
Chicago Sun-Times, November 13, 1995
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- Matt Wolf [review of the London production of Company]
Variety, December 18, 1995
- Sheridan Morley [review of the London production of Company]
The Spectator, December 30, 1995
- Barbara Newman "Another Opening, Another Show" [review of
the London production of Company]
Dancing Times, February 1996
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