Why Sondheim's Women Are Different

Why Sondheim's Women Are Different - The New York Times

It's Mr. Sondhem's wiser strain of woman who is defined not by the relationships in her life but solely by her hard-fought and often moving journey toward self ...

What Makes Sondheim So Successful in Writing Roles for Women?

Sondheim writes women of all ages, and doesn't relegate women over fifty to just wives and mothers (more specifically, even the characters who ...

Stephen Sondheim Discusses a Gender-Swapped 'Company'

With a gender swap, it has a “different flavor,” he said ... SONDHEIM My feeling about the theater is the thing that makes it different ...

Here's to the ladies who lunch: one of Sondheim's greatest ...

One of Sondheim's greatest achievements was his ability to write women that actors want to play. His works have singularly elevated the ...

Katie Welsh's “Informative” Cabaret About a Dozen Sondheim Women

She explored a dozen female characters from Sondheim's musicals and how they informed one another when they were put “side by side” with one another.

Sondheim's Company is a gender-swap hit - BBC

"But if that character becomes a woman there are different issues. If a woman hasn't settled into some sort of relationship by the age of 35 ...

a Feminist and Queer Look at Stephen Sondheim - ISU ReD

... Why Sondheim's Women are Different” in The New. Page 31. 22. York Times, “Rose…stood out in the musical landscape as a woman who insists on something new for ...

Everything's Different, Nothing's Changed: 'Company' With a Female ...

Marianne Elliott's gender-flipped production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's reflection on love and life actually changes shockingly ...

An Updated 'Company' for an Era of Single Women - The Atlantic

A new production of the 1970 Stephen Sondheim musical switches the gender of its main character from male to female, making an old show sharply relevant.

a Feminist and Queer Look at Stephen Sondheim" by Kevin P. Goffard

To accomplish this, I will argue how Sondheim's shows have historically and contemporarily rejected societal and cultural norms for women and folks of differing ...

Students Performing Gender with Sondheim's Musicals in the Age of ...

Unlike Elliott's Company, though, these productions maintain the characters' masculine gender as written. They allow women and nonbinary actors to inhabit male ...

Readers Respond: Sondheim Weighs in on Female Bobby in ...

As BroadwayWorld previously reported, Stephen Sondheim has allowed the upcoming West End production of Company to feature a female Bobby.

It's all about the women in 'Follies' - Los Angeles Times

Though the 1971 Stephen Sondheim-James Goldman musical “Follies” puts male-female relationships under a microscope with its probing ...

Stephen Sondheim's most fascinating female characters

In the West End revival of 'Company', opening this week, leading man Bobby is played by a woman. But Sondheim has never short-changed his ...

Here's to the ladies that lunch - The University of Sydney

Sondheim inspired a generation of women to believe complex female characters have a place at the centre of the Broadway stage.

Columnist discusses female-driven gender-bent revival of “Company”

People are bending over backwards for a gender-bent production of Stephen Sondheim's Company. The female-driven revival will finally make ...

Stephen Sondheim's Women of a Certain Age

The musicals of Stephen Sondheim often feature mature women as supporting and leading characters. Many writers have speculated that the composer ...

Stephen Sondheim on a Female Lead in Company - Playbill

The legendary composer opens up about Marianne Elliott's decision to reverse the genders in an upcoming revival.

Stephen Sondheim's Gender-Swapped 'Company' Arrives at Los ...

But Coleman has her own thoughts on that. “The timbre of the male and the female voice is really different, and people tend to write differently ...

The refreshingly feminist heroines of 'Into the Woods' - HelloGiggles

Stephen Sondheim's freshly feminist twists on old characters (Cinderella isn't just a shoe-diva anymore!) completely reverse the tired stereotypes.