Stephen Sondheim is widely hailed as the greatest modern American musical theater composer. Series creator Elisa New speaks with Broadway stage actors and writer Adam Gopnik to explore Sondheim’s singular ability to blend lyrics and music, using “Finishing the Hat,” from Sondheim’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical "Sunday in the Park with George", as their case study.
Join host Elisa New to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Walt Whitman’s birth.
Williams' poem “This is Just to Say” is only 28 words and ireads like a refrigerator note.
Explore the mingled beauty and horror of war, with this Yusef Komunyakaa poem.
