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Paddington and Into the Woods up for 11 Olivier awards each

Two musicals dominate nominations while Tom Hiddleston and Bryan Cranston vie for best actor, with Cate Blanchett and Rosamund Pike up for best actress

The Guardian - UK

Olivier awards 2026: full list of nominations

Into the Woods and Paddington: The Musical are this year’s most-nominated shows with 11 nods each. See who else is in the running at this year’s awards

The Guardian - UK

Olivier Awards 2026: Full list of nominations as Paddington and Into the Woods dominate

Nick Mohammed will host the Olivier Awards at The Royal Albert Hall in April

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Two previously unheard Stephen Sondheim songs to be played

The podcast, Loving You: The Untold Sondheim, looks at the life of the American composer, who died in 2021.

Evening Standard

Broadway and Hollywood songwriter Marc Shaiman looks back with pessimistic humor in memoir

Award-winning composer and lyricist Marc Shaiman embraces his self-proclaimed pessimism despite a successful career

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Ariana Grande to make London stage debut alongside Jonathan Bailey in Sunday in the Park With George

The singer will reunite with her Wicked co-star in a revival of the musical inspired by artist Georges Seurat in summer 2027

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Ariana Grande and Jonathan Bailey to reunite for Sunday In The Park With George

The production will take place at the Barbican Theatre in London in 2027.

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Yes, Ariana Grande and Jonathan Bailey are starring in a show at the Barbican — here's how to get tickets

It seems the cast of Wicked can’t get enough of the West End

Evening Standard

I love Benoit Blanc’s love for musical theatre

That needle drop in 'Wake Up Dead Man' is perfect.

The Mary Sue

Into the Woods review: A triumphant musical mash-up of fairytales

4/5 This revival of Stephen Sondheim’s clever musical is packed with terrific performances as classic fairytale characters lose their way in the darkness

Evening Standard

Into the Woods review, Bridge Theatre – Stephen Sondheim revival is a thing of lush and arresting beauty

4/5 A lavish production that plays to the musical’s strengths

The Independent UK

Into the Woods review – Brothers Grimm gloriously mashed up by Sondheim

Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s fairytale adventure follows its archetypal characters into real-world emotion, brilliantly drawn and sung

The Guardian - UK

Blue Moon: Ethan Hawke’s performance is a tour de force – but can’t save this uncertain film

Does the truth matter in a film about historical events? This question sits at the heart of any biographical drama, shaping how we judge the balance between storytelling and accuracy.

The Conversation

Hate the new songs in ‘Wicked: For Good’? Here are 10 songs added to movie musicals that don’t suck

While it's not impossible, there are very few movie musicals that pull off adding a new song.

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The flop that finally flew: why did it take 40 years for Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along to soar?

Its 1981 New York premiere was a disaster but this told-in-reverse musical became a Tony award-winning hit with Daniel Radcliffe. The film version is a tear-jerking joy

The Mary Sue

Richard Linklater’s ‘Blue Moon’ is a beautiful exploration of art, love, and the Golden Age of Broadway

'Blue Moon' is yet another masterpiece from Richard Linklater and Ethan Hawke.

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Ian Judge obituary

Theatre and opera director whose work stretched from Gilbert and Sullivan to Shakespeare

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‘The masturbation scene really happened’: inside Safe Space, the campus drama about toppling a statue

Inspired by a protest that took place while he was at Yale, Safe Space is musicals star Jamie Bogyo’s debut play. He speaks about well-meaning white liberals, saying ‘cringe’ things – and tutoring a Bin Laden

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Dishonored 'sounded a little bit ridiculous' in the beginning, but came together with the help of the Sweeney Todd musical

Looking Glass legend Austin Grossman describes the sometimes absurd process of conjuring Dunwall.

The Guardian - US

‘A privilege and a great pleasure’: inside the 5,000-item Stephen Sondheim collection

A treasure trove of manuscripts, notebooks and recordings from the theatre legend has been acquired by the Library of Congress in Washington DC

The Independent UK

Stephen Sondheim's papers go to Library of Congress, offering a look into a Broadway genius

Manuscripts, music and lyric drafts, recordings, notebooks and scrapbooks from Stephen Sondheim have been donated to the Library of Congress

The Conversation

Here We Are: how silence defines Stephen Sondheim’s last musical

In musical theatre lore, when emotion outgrows words, characters sing (and when emotion outgrows song, they dance). This idea – in various guises, configurations and subversions – has shaped musical theatre for the last eight decades. The expectation that in a musical, characters sing is deeply ingrained: songs move the…

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‘Please don’t fart, this is art’ – Stephen Sondheim’s musical The Frogs review

A droll Dionysos, an ab-obsessed himbo and a waddling ballet for goggle-clad frogs can’t outshine Sondheim’s songs in this rarely seen version of the ancient Greek satire

Evening Standard

The Frogs at Southwark Playhouse review: bursting with unfulfilled promise

3/5 Stephen Sondheim’s weirdest show gets its moment in the spotlight

The Guardian - UK

Charles Strouse obituary

Tony-winning Broadway composer who wrote the music for Annie and Bye Bye Birdie

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