Stephen Sondheim | Ryan C Tittle

Jul 194 min read

Life, Death, & Politics in 2024

NOTE: This author is neither a member of any form of political party nor does he endorse any political candidate. Some do not believe...

Jul 126 min read

Two is the Loneliest Number

Harry Nilsson’s song “One,” most famously covered in two distinct but perfect recordings by Three Dog Night and Aimee Mann (the latter...

Jun 733 min read

Stephen Sondheim: A Remembrance

Stephen Sondheim is a musical theatre composer and lyricist from New York City, New York. He wrote the scores for the musicals Here We...

May 35 min read

EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH: 20th Century Masterpiece

In the mid-1970s, when the country was in a deep malaise over Watergate, Vietnam, the failure of most of the late-60s protests, artists...

Apr 127 min read

Christopher Durang (1949-2024)

Christopher Durang was a playwright and actor from Montclair, New Jersey. He wrote the plays Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Tony...

Dec 29, 202312 min read

2023 in Perspective

Greetings, readers, writers, and supporters. It’s time once again to recap the year at the writer’s desk. In addition to my first full...

Mar 3, 20239 min read

Sondheim on Film

Stephen Sondheim was taken from us in late 2021, but since his posthumous cameo in Glass Onion, the wildly uneven follow-up to Knives...

Jan 20, 20235 min read

On Wagner and Disconnect

I get into obsessions. After weeks of reading Browning’s poetry, I’ll switch to Sondheim and there will be weeks of listening, humming,...

Jan 13, 202316 min read

The Juvenilia: First Words

Everyone has apprentice plays. Most people don’t know Eugene O’Neill and Tennessee Williams wrote dozens of plays (rarely performed now)...

Dec 9, 20223 min read

Favorites Part 5: Television/Theatre/Opera

For the last few weeks, I've been sharing my favorite works of art. These were not necessarily my answers to "What is the best movie/tv...

Aug 26, 20229 min read

Fallen Starman: A Reminiscence of Drama School

I either don’t remember or I don’t care. Not remembering can be forgiven, not being remembered cannot be. Not caring can be freeing, but...