News: The Passing of Stephen Sondheim (1930-2021)

Maryland Theatre Guide: I was most fortunate to spend a good part of my childhood through my twenties not far from Broadway. From 1957 to the middle 1990s, if you lived in New York, you were acutely aware of the artistry of Stephen Sondheim. From his collaboration with the great composer, Leonard Bernstein, as the lyricist for “West Side Story” to his last full length Broadway musical, “Into the Woods” (“Assassins” was revived on Broadway in this century), he was one of the vital life forces of Broadway theatre.