An excerpt from ‘Stars of David: Prominent Jews Talk About Being Jewish’ about the legendary composer, who died Friday at age 91
The National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia marks the hundredth anniversary of the composer’s birth with an exhibit about his personal life and social activism
His ‘Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson’ foresaw our populist political moment
In a ‘top secret’ meeting at The Public Theater in New York, the legendary composer played ‘gorgeous’ music for a star-studded cast
Sondheim and playwright David Ives are adapting films by Luis Buñuel for the stage
And—cautiously, tremulously—Rachel Shukert offers a dissent
An all-female troupe of actors will stage ‘Into the Woods’ later this month
The theater legend’s approach to lashon hara is one we can actually follow
With Nice Work and Porgy and Bess up for 20 Tonys, the Gershwins and Stephen Sondheim talk to Tablet
With Stephen Sondheim’s second collection of his lyrics, the hyper-articulate, neurotic, modernist master Broadway songwriter takes a curtain call
What are the 100 greatest Jewish songs ever? Tablet Magazine’s musicologists rank them all, from sacred to pop to hip-hop, from Rabbi Akiva to Amy Winehouse.
A new history argues that it was a single play—Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!—that ushered in the beginning of Broadway’s Golden Age
Musical selections to put you in the mood for atonement
You may be able to go home again, but do you really want to?
Alisa Solomon gives us the story behind West Side Story