Stephen Sondheim Articles

Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford in Sydney Pollack's The Way We Were Arthur Laurents, whose credits include the stage versions of Gypsy and West Side Story, and the screenplays for Rope, Anastasia, Bonjour Tristesse, The Way We Were, and The Turning Point, will be known from now on as the man who said No to Barbra Streisand — which is kinda like saying No to Oprah [...]

Rosalind Russell in Mervyn LeRoy's Gypsy (top); Barbra Streisand in Paul Weitz's Little Fockers (bottom) Barbra Streisand won't be playing Mama Rose in a film version of the Jule Styne-Stephen Sondheim-Arthur Laurents Broadway hit Gypsy, Laurents himself told The Hartford Courant. Gypsy was to have been Streisand's first screen musical since Yentl in 1983. Laurents, who wrote the book for the 1959 musical based on [...]

Theodore Bikel, Mira Nair, Julianne Moore, Harold Prince, Vanessa Redgrave, Miriam Margolyes, Stephen Sondheim, Cynthia Nixon, Tony Kushner, Mandy Patinkin, Eve Ensler, Jennifer Tilly, Ed Asner, Wallace Shawn, and James Schamus are some of the 150 American and British stage, screen, and television personalities that have signed their names in support of the Israeli actors, directors, and playwrights' boycott of Israeli settlements. On August 27, [...]