New today, an Advent essay on vigil, A Little Night Music, and the grammar of anticipation: thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/a-little-n...

Hey, o⃥l⃥d⃥ new friends! 👋 We publish a new Sondheim essay & interview each week, free to all. 200+ pieces to date. You’d be so welcome to join our community! (You get a crossword as a welcome gift, too.) No account required - just an email address. 💌 thesondheimhub.substack.com

Today, we’re so proud to publish this personal account by Grammy-nominated record producer Didier C. Deutsch, detailing his more than three decades working on Sondheim’s recordings. It’s an intimate & illuminating portrait of art, ethics, and friendship. thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/how-i-met-...

Raise your hand if you’re seeing MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG on the big screen this weekend!

New today, we speak to ELSBETH showrunner, screenwriter & playwright Jonathan Tolins! We discuss his Merrily-infused season opener and much more… thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/a-conversa...

New today, we speak to ELSBETH showrunner, screenwriter & playwright Jonathan Tolins! We discuss his Merrily-infused season opener and much more… thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/a-conversa...

New today, a Sondheimian guide to musical meter. You do not need to be a music theory whizz to read this! This guide takes you through simple & compound meters step by step, and digs into some more fun territory (hemiola! cross-rhythm!) along the way. thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/sondheim-a...

Hey, o⃥l⃥d⃥ new friends! 👋 We publish a new Sondheim essay & interview each week, free to all. 200+ pieces to date. You’d be so welcome to join our community! (You get a crossword as a welcome gift, too.) No account required - just an email address. 💌 thesondheimhub.substack.com

As we pass Through arrangements of shadows Toward the verticals of trees Forever.

sometimes people like a stream that leave you meets a boulder 🤝 halfway through the wood

New today! A piece on benediction & binding oath in MERRILY and WICKED thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/our-time-t...

Sondheim wrote “a great deal” of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC at Christo’s Steak House. “When the cocoon is self-created, the surroundings matter not at all.”

Meet our youngest ever guest! Max Rackenberg played Frank Jr. in MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG on Broadway. You’ll be able to see him on the big screen when Merrily comes to cinemas next month! thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/a-conversa...

Meet our youngest ever guest! Max Rackenberg played Frank Jr. in MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG on Broadway. You’ll be able to see him on the big screen when Merrily comes to cinemas next month! thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/a-conversa...

FOR GOOD? 💚🩷 Our Wicked x Sondheim series concludes today with a look at the moral texture of influence in Wicked, Into the Woods, Sunday, and West Side Story. thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/for-good

FOR GOOD? 💚🩷 Our Wicked x Sondheim series concludes today with a look at the moral texture of influence in Wicked, Into the Woods, Sunday, and West Side Story. thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/for-good

New today! We speak to the brilliant Joel Fram, music director for Maria Friedman’s MERRILY and Marianne Elliott’s COMPANY. 🎈 Joel shares so many great stories of these two landmark productions & working closely with Sondheim: thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/a-conversa...

New today! We speak to the brilliant Joel Fram, music director for Maria Friedman’s MERRILY and Marianne Elliott’s COMPANY. 🎈 Joel shares so many great stories of these two landmark productions & working closely with Sondheim: thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/a-conversa...

New York, 2004. 📸 by Richard Avedon.

New York, 2004. 📸 by Richard Avedon.

New today! GLINDA AND THE BALLADEER 💖 Assassins, Wicked, and the acoustics of power: thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/glinda-and...

Gotta read this!!!

New today! Our latest Supplement, which includes an exclusive essay diving deeper into the witches of Into the Woods & Wicked: thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/the-witch-...

In January, Pacific Overtures turns 50! To celebrate, we are putting together a feature collecting stories, memories & reflections from performers & audience members alike. Would you like to contribute? More info here: forms.gle/ava8mmisqxca...

“I’m the witch. You’re the world.” Today, we look at “Last Midnight” and “No Good Deed” as twin moral reckonings: thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/witches-ca...

Something Wicked this way comes… 🫧

Some Sondheim lyric fun for today…

Pinch… Paunch! Pension! Sondheim’s 60 Minutes interview with Diane Sawyer is endlessly inspiring. And this exchange, about rhymes and reference books, is so delightful.

Rick Pender spoke with @thesondheimhub.bsky.social to discuss the release of his latest book, “Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd.” Learn more: https://bit.ly/4oD15wl 📚💙#TheatreSky

As Halloween approaches, it was great to speak to Rick Pender about his new SWEENEY TODD book. 🩸 Rick is a significant chronicler of Sondheim’s work (he’s author of The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia, and was editor of The Sondheim Review). thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/a-conversa...

Sondheim and Bernstein working on West Side Story. Washington, DC, 1957.

RUNNING AWAY—LET’S DO IT Into the Woods and the false freedom of flight A look at the temptation to flee in “No More,” and how that impulse echoes through centuries of storytelling. “Trouble is, son, the farther you run, the more you feel undefined…” 🏃💨 thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/running-aw...

So pleased to be able to share this. Our conversation with MARK EDEN HOROWITZ, senior music specialist at @librarycongress.bsky.social and author of “Sondheim on Music.” thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/a-conversa...

We have a very exciting interview coming your way tomorrow… Here’s a rather big clue. 👀 Subscribe (free) to be the first to read it. No account required, just an email address! 👉 thesondheimhub.substack.com

GREEN FINCH AND LINNET BIRD: Johanna’s doctrine of second freedoms New today, we look at Johanna’s questioning mind in Sweeney Todd — and how Sondheim provides her with a working philosophy for her circumstances. 🦜 thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/how-is-it-...

Pinch… Paunch! Pension! Sondheim’s 60 Minutes interview with Diane Sawyer is endlessly inspiring. And this exchange, about rhymes and reference books, is so delightful.

THE LIVES OF A SHOWGIRL: Follies and the Fate(s) of Ophelia Sondheim and Swift. Follies and fate. The shimmer of performance and the shadow of collapse. 🪩 thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/the-lives-...

This week’s interview is with the brilliant Britney Coleman, who starred as Bobbie in the national tour of COMPANY. 🎈 Read our conversation here: thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/a-conversa...

This week’s interview is with the brilliant Britney Coleman, who starred as Bobbie in the national tour of COMPANY. 🎈 Read our conversation here: thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/a-conversa...

New today: two cultures suspended between earth and sky, one floating with supreme confidence in its isolation, the other holding to tradition like a fiddler to his precarious perch. An essay about stability, change, and cultural survival: thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/we-float

New today: two cultures suspended between earth and sky, one floating with supreme confidence in its isolation, the other holding to tradition like a fiddler to his precarious perch. An essay about stability, change, and cultural survival: thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/we-float

If you’ve ever seen ASSASSINS, you might have noticed the credit “Based on an idea by Charles Gilbert, Jr.” This week, we are honored to welcome Mr. Gilbert to The Sondheim Hub. Click below to read our full interview: thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/a-conversa...

If you’ve ever seen ASSASSINS, you might have noticed the credit “Based on an idea by Charles Gilbert, Jr.” This week, we are honored to welcome Mr. Gilbert to The Sondheim Hub. Click below to read our full interview: thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/a-conversa...

15 years ago this week, Henry Miller’s Theatre was officially renamed in Sondheim’s honor:

Joy today and bliss tomorrow! Full cast reveal for INTO THE WOODS at London’s Bridge Theatre.

New today! Exploring the painting at the heart of Sunday in the Park with George: thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/an-ordinar...

Our latest interview is with GYPSY’s music Director, Andy Einhorn! On his decades-long partnership with Audra McDonald, preparing the Gypsy score for Broadway, and sharing a piano bench with Sondheim: thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/a-conversa...

New this week! A whirlwind tour through Sondheim’s musical intervals, from a minor 2nd up to an octave. 🔎 You do NOT need to be a music theory whizz to read this! Dive in here: thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/sondheims-...

Dreams are a sweet mistake… Our latest essay is on the achingly beautiful “One More Kiss” from FOLLIES, where Sondheim conjures a past that feels genuinely present. thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/one-more-k...

Sondheim in Majorca, 1972