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Theater ‘I haven’t really accepted he’s dead’ — scenes from the Stephen Sondheim estate sale
Bidding on Sweeney, la-la-la. Drinking bellinis, la-la-la. Hi-ho the glamorous life!
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Theater A hauntingly bizarre musical upends Stephen Sondheim’s signature maxim — here, everyone is alone
In Dave Malloy's COVID-era 'Three Houses,' a brilliant structure saves three little pigs but leaves audience out in the woods
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Culture A few of the Forward’s favorite things from 2023
Anne Frank, Real Housewives and an Adam Sandler bat mitzvah movie saw us through a difficult year
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Culture ‘Isn’t it rich’ — Sondheim, Buñuel, and the discreet charm of the bourgeois audience they couldn’t live without
Stephen Sondheim's final musical, 'Here We Are,' tackles two of the great surrealist films of the 20th century
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Theater The 2023 Tonys love dead Jews (and some living ones)
‘Leopoldstadt,’ ‘Parade’ and Sondheim revivals pick up nominations
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Theater There’s something so Jewish about how very un-Jewish Stephen Sondheim was
A conversation with DT Max, the author of 'Finale: Late Conversations With Stephen Sondheim'
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Film & TV Why Stephen Sondheim is in ‘Glass Onion’
The late Broadway icon was also a puzzle fanatic and lover of murder mysteries
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