New Line Theatre has produced many musicals by composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim over its 17 years (Anyone Can Whistle, Company, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, Assassins, Passion, and two revues of his songs), but they've never been performing one of his shows on his birthday -- till now! On Saturday, March 22, during the current run of Sondheim and John Weidman's Assassins, New Line will throw Sondheim a 78th birthday party, complete with birthday cake for the audience.
New Line Theatre continues its seventeenth season of provocative, alternative musical theatre, with the return of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's political masterwork Assassins, running March 6-29, 2008, at the brand new Ivory Theatre, 7622 Michigan at Ivory, in South St. Louis City.
Full casting has been announced for the upcoming production of John Weidman and Stephen Sondheim's Assassins, presented at Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA from May 30-July 16
Debra Monk headlines the cast in the world premiere production of Paul Weitz' dark comedy Show People, which began previews at Second Stage on March 16th and opens on April 6th; it will run through April 30th
Debra Monk, Karen Ziemba and Edward Hibbert will join David Hyde Pierce in the pre-Broadway world premiere of Kander and Ebb's Curtains at the Ahmanson Theatre in LA this summer
PS Classics has announced plans to record the cast album of Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway production of John Weidman and Stephen Sondheim's Assassins.
Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's musical drama finally arrives on Broadway. Ironically, the two-year delay of the Roundabout's revival of Assassins might have been the best thing for the show. Fractured though political thought has always been, the recent political dilemmas and scandals have created deep schisms in the American psyche, with violently passionate emotions on each side.
