Why S.F. Playhouse's ‘Into the Woods' is so much more than escapism

Susi Damilano's production shows how attending theater can be as grounding and clarifying as going for a walk in the forest ...

Into the Woods: a ‘hypnotic’ production

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The New York Times

This ‘Into the Woods’ Is Not That Deep. That’s What Makes It Great.

A new London staging of the Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine musical makes the most of its comedic elements and delivers a visual treat. By Houman Barekat Reviewing from London There are no happy ...
The Guardian

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 Can Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s eternally ...
The Daily Progress

'Into the Woods' opens Virginia Theatre Festival with intergenerational appeal

Fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm have captivated readers since the early 1800s with moments of magic and macabre, and musical theater fans have treasured a Tony Award-winning retelling of the ...
The Independent

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

There’s a sly modesty to the opening number of the Bridge Theatre’s new revival of Into the Woods. Choreographed around a raised rectangular platform, the pinballing scene-setter is as lively and ...
BroadwayWorld

Review: INTO THE WOODS, Bridge Theatre

Since its debut in 1987, the show has not many revivals; it is a fun and playful musical, full of tales so familiar from childhood, but underlying all the joviality is a darkness from the original ...
London Evening Standard

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

Stephen Sondheim’s 1980s musical mashup of various, mostly Grimm fairytales – Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Rapunzel - is triumphantly revived here by director Jordan Fein. And it’s an inspired ...
The Arts Desk

Into the Woods, Bridge Theatre review - Grimm, sometimes grim, but always fast and furious

At about the same time (the mid-80s) that a collective unease started to censor or, at least, soften, the real horrors that underpin the Grimms’ fairytales and Arthur Rackham’s hideous, spiky ...
WhatsOnStage

Into the Woods at the Bridge Theatre review – magical moments in the woods

A man in a lounge suit saunters apologetically onto the stage, blinking in the house lights. He looks as if he is about to make a cast change announcement. Then he opens his hands and says: “Once upon ...
Tatler

Into the Woods is London's best musical in years. Stars Jordan Fein, Kate Fleetwood, and Bella Brown explain why

No one goes Into The Woods unscathed. Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s 1986 musical, which follows a host of fairytale characters as their familiar stories begin to unravel around them, is the ...
WhatsOnStage

Into the Woods revival releases first look photos and extends run

Into the Woods has released first-look photos! The production, directed by Jordan Fein and with set and costume design by Tom Scutt, will play for 20 weeks across the festive season and into the new ...