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America's foremost musical-theater composer also proves to be a fascinatingly complex and conflicted human being in this meticulous biography by the always-capable Meryle Secrest (Being Bernard Berenson, etc.). Stephen Sondheim himself was interviewed for the book, as were many of his closest friends, and the author makes perceptive use of this material. Born in 1930, Sondheim was a successful Broadway lyricist (West Side Story and Gypsy) before he was 30. But the scars from a miserable childhood remained: he was inclined to be distant, hypercritical of those less intelligent than he, and terrified of serious emotional commitment. Critics sometimes found those qualities in the series of groundbreaking musicals he created with director Hal Prince--Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, and Sweeney Todd, to name four--but they agreed that he brought new intellectual ambition and artistic adventurousness to the musical theater.

1. Stephen Sondheim : A Life by Meryle Secrest
2. My Name Escapes Me : The Diary of a Retiring Actor by Alec Guinness
3. Shakespeare : A Life by Park Honan
4. Houdini!!! : The Career of Ehrich Weiss by Kenneth Silverman
5. Balancing Act : The Authorized Biography of Angela Lansbury by Martin Gottfried
6. Bombshells : Glamour Girls of a Lifetime by Steve Sullivan
7. With Ossie and Ruby : In This Life Together by Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee
8. I Think I'm Outta Here : A Memoir of All My Families by Carroll O'Connor
9. Beginning by Kenneth Branagh
10. Oscar Wilde's Last Stand : Decadence, Conspiracy, and the Most Outrageous Trial of the Century by Philip Hoare
11. Memoirs of an Amnesiac by Oscar, Levant
12. But Darling, I'm Your Auntie Mame! : The Amazing History of the World's Favorite Madcap Aunt by Richard Tyler Jordan
13. Pictures in My Head by Gabriel Byrne
14. A Traitor's Kiss : The Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1751-1816 by Fintan Otoole, Fintan O'Toole
15. Threads of Time (A Cornelia and Michael Bessie Book) by Peter Brook
16. Pictures in My Head by Gabriel Byrne
17. Leaving a Doll's House : A Memoir by Claire Bloom
18. But Darling, I'm Your Auntie Mame! : The Amazing History of the World's Favorite Madcap Aunt by Richard Tyler Jordan
19. Damned to Fame : The Life of Samuel Beckett by James Knowlson
20. Kenneth Tynan : Letters by Kenneth Tynan, ka Tynan
21. Dear Writer, Dear Actress : The Love Letters of Anto Chekhov and Olga Knipper by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, et al
22. Leaving a Doll's House : A Memoir by Claire Bloom, Bill Phillips (Editor)
23. The Kindness of Strangers : The Life of Tennessee Williams by Donald Spoto
24. When Do I Start? : A Memoir by Karl Malden, Carla Malden (Contributor)
25. Rewrites : A Memoir by Neil Simon
26. Profiles by Kenneth Tynan, Simon Callow (Introduction)
27. The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini (Kodansha Globe) by Ruth Brandon, Philip Turner (Editor)
28. Shakespeare by Anthony Burgess
29. Nazimova : A Biography by Gavin Lambert
30. Speak Low (When You Speak Love) : The Letters of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya by Lys Symonette(Editor), et al
31. Year of the King : An Actor's Diary and Sketchbook by Antony Sher
32. I Think I'm Outta Here : A Memoir of All My Families by Carroll O'Connor(Narrator)
33. Tony Kushner in Conversation (Triangulations) by Tony Kushner, Robert Vorlicky (Editor)
34. An Actor and His Time by John Gielgud, et al
35. Musical Stages : An Autobiography by Richard Rodgers, Mary Rodgers (Introduction)
36. Memoirs of a Sword Swallower by Daniel P. Mannix
37. Noel Coward : A Biography by Philip Hoare
38. The Real Life of Laurence Olivier by Roger Lewis
39. Being an Actor by Simon Callow
40. Accidentally on Purpose : Reflections on Life, Acting, and the Nine Natural Laws of Creativity by John Strasberg
41. Shakespeare : The Evidence : Unlocking the Mysteries of the Man and His Work by Ian Wilson, Cal Morgan (Editor)
42. Meredith Monk (Paj Books - Art+ Performance Series) by Deborah Jowitt(Editor)
43. James Earl Jones : Voices and Silences by James Earl Jones, Penelope Niven
44. Angela Lansbury : A Life on Stage and Screen by Rob Edelman, Audrey Kupferberg (Contributor)
45. Tarkovsky : Cinema As Poetry by Maya Turovshaya, et al
46. Sam Shepard by Don Shewey
47. The Orton Diaries : Including the Correspondence of Edna Welthorpe and Others by Joe Orton(Editor), John Lahr (Editor)
48. The Musicals of Andrew Lloyd Webber by Keith Richmond
49. Ralph Richardson : An Actor's Life by Garry O'Connor
50. The Presence of the Actor by Joseph Chaikin
51. Brecht and Company : Sex, Politics, and the Making of the Modern Drama by John Fuegi
52. Stanislavsky Directs by Nikolai Gurchakov, et al
53. The Mystic in the Theatre : Eleonora Duse by Eva Le Gallienne, Gallienne Eva Le
54. The Diary of Lillie Langtry : And Other Remembrances by Donna Lee Harper(Illustrator), et al
55. And the Show Goes on : Broadway and Hollywood Adventures by Sheldon Leonard, Andy Griffith
56. Bertolt Brecht's Berlin : A Scrapbook of the Twenties by Wolf Von Eckardt, et al
57. Rachel Rosenthal (Paj Books - Art+ Performance Series) by Moria Roth(Editor), Moira Roth (Editor)
58. Eva Le Gallienne : A Biography by Helen Sheehy
59. Mrs. Jordan's Profession : The Actress and the Prince by Claire Tomalin
60. The Great Stage Directors : 100 Distinguished Careers of the Theater by Samuel L. Leiter, Simon Callow (Designer)
61. Speak Low (When You Speak Love) : The Letters of Kurt Weil and Lotte Lenya by Kurt Weill, et al
62. Tom : The Unknown Tennessee Williams by Lyle Leverich
63. Lessons in Laughter : The Autobiography of a Deaf Actor by Bernard Bragg, Eugene Bergman
64. Daughter of Shanghai by Tsai Chin, Tsai Chin
65. Cousins : A Memoir by Athol Fugard
66. The Smart Set : George Jean Nathan and H.L. Mencken by Thomas Quinn Curtiss
67. My Life With Noel Coward by Graham Payn, Barry Day (Contributor)
68. To Be Young, Gifted and Black by Lorraine Hansberry
69. Shakespeare : A Life in Drama by Stanley Wells
70. Robert Shaw : More Than a Life by Karen Carmean(Contributor), Georg Gaston
71. Funny, You Don't Look Like One : Observations from a Blue-Eyed Ojibway by Drew Hayden Taylor
72. The Stars Who Created Kabuki : Their Lives, Loves and Legacy by Laurence R. Kominz, Michael Brase (Editor)
73. Writing Wrongs : The Work of Wallace Shawn (American Subjects) by W. D. King, et al
74. Bertolt Brecht : His Life, His Art and His Times by Frederic Ewen
75. To Be Young, Gifted and Black : Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words by Robert Nemiroff(Contributor), et al
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