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Talented youngsters are taking on ambitious roles usually played by actors twice their age to celebrate their school's new theatre.

At the start of the intermission to Friday night's District Theatre performance of Company , my partner turned to me and said, "I don't remember this show being that funny." He was right, because director David Turley accentuates the funny parts in this musical by composer Stephen Sondheim and writer George Furth.

This new show, under the aegis of the Gershwin estate, attempts to transform it into musical theater-into, in other words, just plain , deemphasizing both the high-cultural trappings and the lowly dialect of the denizens of Catfish Row, and with the recitative turned into book scenes by Pulitzer-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks.

Westport Country Playhouse and Baltimore's CENTERSTAGE announce casting for their co-production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's beloved fairy tale musical, Into the Woods.

Dan Folino, left, as Hapgood, and Katherine DeBoer, as the disguised Fay Apple, play with each other in the Lakeland Civic Theatre production of Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents' 1964 musical, "Anyone Can Whistle." Musicals that fall on their faces often possess scores to cherish.

In this June 7, 2009 file photo, Tony Award-winning actor Lin-Manuel Miranda arrives at the 63rd Annual Tony Awards in New York.

"100A YearsA ofA Broadway," oneA ofA the biggest touringA BroadwayA concerts in the U.S., created by composer and lyricist Neil Berg, will featureA BroadwayA stars Carter Calvert, Sandra Joseph, Ivan Rutherford, Chuck Wagner and Danny Zolli.

Blonde Ambition , a one-night-only concert featuring some of "Young Broadway's favorite blondes," is held Feb.

Celebrated playwrights including Stephen Sondheim, Tony Kushner and Edward Albee have joined a fundraiser to mark the anniversary of a devastating earthquake in Japan.

David Alan Grier has a gentle message for anyone who is getting all hot and bothered thinking that he's helping ruin an American masterpiece.

The old saying "If at first you don't succeed try, try again" could have been tailor-made for the 1981 musical Merrily We Roll Along , which is set to be revived by New York City Center's Encores! series.

There's a good chance that the United States could go to war with Iran, and the words spoken by... What: Blackbird Theater presents Pacific Overtures When: Through Feb.

Duxbury Library's Sunday Salon Series presents "Music in the House" with vocalists Bobbi Carey and Will McMillan this afternoon at 2 p.m. Their show includes songs by Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, Oscar Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim, Amanda McBroom, Irving Berlin, Michel Legrand, Jonathan Larson, Johnny Mercer, and others in anticipation of ... (more)

This award-winning musical is written by James Lapine with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, directed by Jill Dillingham, and produced by Jayne Jeney.

Coley Grundman and William Giammona play lifelong friends who share a celebratory moment in the musical The Story of My Life at New Conservatory Theatre Center.

Top players from Broadway, movies and TV are exploring the drama of making a musical in the new drama series "Smash." "Broadway Baby," from the landmark 1971 musical Follies , was Stephen Sondheim 's valentine to every chorus kid with dreams of top billing.

Tony Award winner Deanna Dunagan , the Chicago star who played the strained, cancerous and addicted matron Violet Weston in Broadway's August: Osage County , will be Madame Armfeldt in Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's A Little Night Music in the Chicago area this spring and summer.

Danielle Ferland , who originated the role of Little Red Ridinghood in the 1987 Broadway production of Into the Woods , will take on the part of the Baker's Wife in the Baltimore Center Stage-Westport Country Playhouse co-production of the Tony Award-winning musical.

Roundabout Theatre Company recently announced the theatre organization's permanent archives, which document the company's illustrious 46-year production history.

There were some empty seats tonight at Blackbird Theater's staging of Pacific Overtures at Lipscomb's Shamblin Theatre.