“We had the same priorities. We wanted to take the audience where we wanted to go, not where they wanted to go.” This is Harold Prince’s description of his collaboration with Stephen Sondheim, and it explains why, in a 12 year period beginning in 1970 with Company and ending in 1981 with Merrily We Roll […]
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The Hayes Theatre Company in Sydney delivers a riveting, high energy and highly accomplished production of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s 1990 musical Assassins (Sept. 15-Oct. 22, 2017). The political backdrop of the production strongly evokes a Trumpesque universe that is divisive, bizarre, threatening and unpredictable. On the show’s September opening night the Sydney audience […]
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