Ben Stone News

Today we are taking a look at one of the most exciting DVD/Blu-Ray releases of the year - perhaps ever, at least as far as Broadway connoisseurs are concerned. Taped back in mid-March of this year, a week before the actual central celebratory event itself occurred, comes SONDHEIM! The Birthday Concert, which will also be shown next Wednesday on PBS as part of this season's sensational series of GREAT PERFORMANCES at 9 PM on WNET in New York and across the country. This is a once-in-a-lifetime event that has been ever-so-lovingly rendered on disc in high definition preserving a heavenly host of the very best Broadway talent one could ever possibly ask to be assembled. SONDHEIM! has it all.

Ingredient X, the new play by Nick Grosso, will open at the Royal Court Theatre from 26 May (previews from 20 May) with a cast including James Lance, Lesley Sharp and Indira Varma.

John Simm will make his Sheffield Crucible stage debut as Hamlet in September 2010. The production will reunite him with Sheffield's Associate Director Paul Miller - the two last collaborated on Elling which originated at the Bush Theatre before transferring to the West End. Simm was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Actor for this role.

A troupe of talented entertainers will amaze audience members as they perform in Variety Live, a world-class variety show direct from The London Palladium, at the Suncoast Showroom November 27, 28 and 29.

A troupe of talented entertainers will amaze audience members as they perform in Variety Live, a world-class variety show direct from The London Palladium, at the Suncoast Showroom November 27, 28 and 29.

Broadway veteran Jeff McCarthy (Urinetown, Side Show, Beauty and the Beast) returns to Barrington Stage next summer to star in the title role of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's musical thriller Sweeney Todd-The Demon Barber of Fleet Street scheduled for a five-week run from June 17-July 17, 2010 on the BSC Mainstage.

A troupe of talented entertainers will amaze audience members as they perform in Variety Live, a world-class variety show direct from The London Palladium, at the Suncoast Showroom November 27, 28 and 29.

To celebrate its 15th anniversary, The Landor Theatre is delighted to announce a revival of the first musical ever produced at the venue, Stephen Sondheim's enchanting 'Into The Woods'.

Due to the unprecedented demand for tickets, the Landor Theatre is delighted to announce the addition of two matinee performances for 15th anniversary production of ?Into the Woods'.

To celebrate its 15th anniversary, The Landor Theatre is delighted to announce a revival of the first musical ever produced at the venue, Stephen Sondheim's enchanting 'Into The Woods'.

To celebrate its 15th anniversary, The Landor Theatre is delighted to announce a revival of the first musical ever produced at the venue, Stephen Sondheim's enchanting 'Into The Woods'.

To celebrate its 15th anniversary, The Landor Theatre is delighted to announce a revival of the first musical ever produced at the venue, Stephen Sondheim's enchanting 'Into The Woods'.

Talented performers of various backgrounds will travel 'across the pond' to entertain Las Vegas audiences in Britain's Top Talent at The Orleans Showroom September 11, 12 and 13.

Talented performers of various backgrounds will travel 'across the pond' to entertain Las Vegas audiences in Britain's Top Talent at The Orleans Showroom September 11, 12 and 13.

Talented performers of various backgrounds will travel 'across the pond' to entertain Las Vegas audiences in Britain's Top Talent at The Orleans Showroom September 11, 12 and 13.

Due to the unprecedented demand for tickets, the Landor Theatre is delighted to announce the addition of two matinee performances for 15th anniversary production of ?Into the Woods'.

To celebrate its 15th anniversary, The Landor Theatre is delighted to announce a revival of the first musical ever produced at the venue, Stephen Sondheim's enchanting 'Into The Woods'.

Talented performers of various backgrounds will travel 'across the pond' to entertain Las Vegas audiences in Britain's Top Talent at The Orleans Showroom September 11, 12 and 13.

Tony Award-nominee Victor Garber and Tony Award-winner Natasha Richardson have lined up TV pilots.

Due to popular demand, the upcoming Encores! staged concert presentation of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's 1971 classic Follies will play an extra performance on February 12th at 8 PM