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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 560

Stephen Sondheim

This image released by 20th Century Studios shows Ariana DeBose as Anita, foreground left, and David Alvarez as Bernardo in "West Side Story." (Niko Tavernise/20th Century Studios via AP)
December 13, 2021, 4:57 am
Highly anticipated Spielberg ‘West Side Story’ debuts weakly with $10.5M
Despite opening to critical acclaim after a prolonged delay, the award-winning director’s first musical fares poorly in an ominous sign for the film industry
By Jake Coyle
Then-US president Barack Obama (right) presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to composer Stephen Sondheim during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House, on November 24, 2015, in Washington, DC. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
November 27, 2021, 7:21 pm
Perfectionist. Genius. Icon. That was Stephen Sondheim
The theatrical giant, who died Friday at 91, was as complex as his lyrics — a driven, obsessive purist, and his own worst critic
By Mark Kennedy
Composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim poses after being awarded the Freedom of the City of London at a ceremony at the Guildhall in London, on Sept. 27, 2018. Sondheim, the songwriter who reshaped the American musical theater in the second half of the 20th century, has died at age 91 on Nov. 26, 2021, at his home in Roxbury, Conn. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)
November 27, 2021, 1:15 am
Stephen Sondheim, a giant of American musical theater, dies at 91
Born to a NY Jewish family, composer is credited with pushing the musical into a darker, richer and more intellectual place with works like ‘Company,’ ‘Follies’ and ‘Sweeney Todd’
By Mark Kennedy
US President Barack Obama, right, presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Barbra Streisand during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House, on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2015 (AP Photo via JTA/Evan Vucci)
November 26, 2015, 3:50 am
The rebbe who helped create food stamps, and other Jewish Medal of Freedom stories
This year’s White House event was one of the most Jewish iterations of the ceremony in memory
By Ron Kampeas
US film director Steven Spielberg arrives for a meeting with Holocaust survivors in Krakow, Poland last January. (photo credit: AP/Czarek Sokolowski)
November 17, 2015, 3:23 am
Spielberg, Itzhak Perlman to get presidential medal of freedom
Barbra Streisand, Stephen Sondheim also among 17 recipients of highest civilian honor
By ToI Staff
Production still from 'West Side Story"'(courtesy: United Artists.)
March 7, 2014, 2:20 pm
Spielberg eyes the West Side, Wahlberg’s by the Bay
Plus: naval battles, European hotels, talking dogs and the best Jewish joke of the year (so far) — and the Shin Bet
By Jordan Hoffman
Stephen Sondheim and Simon made a joint stage appearance Tuesday night, Dec. 3, 2013, at a small auditorium in downtown Manhattan. Their one-hour conversation was sponsored by the MacDowell artist colony. (photo credit: AP File Photo/Evan Agostini, File)
December 7, 2013, 3:05 am
Simon and Sondheim talk shop at joint appearance
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon moderates rare meeting of living music legends
By Hillel Italie
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