Into the Woods
Opening Night: July 10, 2022
Theater: St James Theatre
Website: intothewoodsbway.com
Here’s a reason to be happy ever after… Direct from its sold-out New York City Center Encores! run, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Tony Award-winning triumph Into the Woods comes to Broadway’s St. James Theatre for 8 weeks only. So don’t delay or be misled—this critically acclaimed new production is here just for a moment!
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July 10, 2022
Whether you’re a die-hard Sondheim stan or a first-time visitor of the woods, you’ll get reeled in by its initial apparent whimsy, its deceptive simplicity, only for it to tap into the hinterlands of your own pathos, and so through the woods of constant self-examination, you’d come out the other side a little changed, and a little less alone.
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July 10, 2022
Lear deBessonet’s superb production of the Sondheim and James Lapine modern classic “Into the Woods,” which originated at Encores! in May, has made the journey west and south to Broadway. Despite some cast changes, its humor, wonder and humanity have arrived intact. Indeed, they may glimmer even more brightly at the St. James Theater than they did at City Center.
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July 10, 2022
Into the Woods’s legion fans are well-served by this revival, and at both the Encores! performance and the Broadway press performance that I attended, the audience response was overwhelming. The show, for all its thorniness, engenders the bliss of re-encountering an old friend who is holding up great. What more, in the end, could you wish?
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July 10, 2022
If I had the time and money, I could happily sit through every single performance of the exceptionally cast, musically perfect, joyous and glorious Broadway revival of “Into the Woods,” Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s 1987 musical of fairy tale mashups, moral probing, and community responsibility, which is playing a limited run through the end of the summer at the St. James Theatre.
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July 10, 2022
Sondheim and Lapine’s musical has etched its way into the hearts of generations of musical-theater lovers who are now making their way to the St. James. These woods are only with us for eight weeks. Head into them.
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July 10, 2022
To say it delivers on its promise is an understatement. A cast as fine as any on Broadway this year – Sara Bareilles, Brian D’Arcy James, Patina Miller, Phillipa Soo, Gavin Creel, Joshua Henry (and that’s just for starters) – musical direction and orchestrations that bathe some of Sondheim’s most breathtaking pieces of music in arrangements and execution that can’t be improved upon, a warm, lovely lighting design that envelops the stage and soothes the audience as if leading us down a wooded path where things might not always be so nice, well, this Into The Woods has us at its every beck and call. Resistance is futile.
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July 10, 2022
The revival that opened on Broadway Sunday night is not just a glorious lifeline for fans reawakening to the wonders of live performance after a long, dark hiatus. It’s a crystalline showcase for sensational performances from an all-star cast of marquee veterans, and a testament to the enduring genius of the beloved musical, now in its fourth Broadway incarnation since premiering in 1987.
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July 10, 2022
Now that it’s officially on its feet at the St. James Theatre, I would like to submit Into the Woods as proof to this skeptical industry that there is a not-so-far-off kingdom where the pinnacle of art meets the pinnacle of entertainment.
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July 10, 2022
That’s the case with Lear deBessonet’s gorgeous production, which began as a semi-staged concert in the Encores! series this spring and now moves to Broadway for a limited 8-week run, with a mix of superlative original cast and sparkling new additions.
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July 10, 2022
In striping Woods down to its bare essentials, the very brilliant DeBessonet has crafted a near-perfect revival that breathes intoxicating new life into a masterpiece we barely realized needed new life at all. It is a remarkable evening, as effortlessly comforting as it is staggeringly heartbreaking.
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July 10, 2022
The Encores! production commanded queues around the block for its May engagement, and the audience for its Broadway production is buzzing as it takes it seats, rapturously applauding throughout, and thunderously ecstatic, standing as one whooping and clapping, at the end. Do all you can to book a ticket. This is a theatrical event to see and to savor.
READ THE REVIEWJuly 10, 2022
This works spectacularly well because the material is spectacularly good and, frankly, the show avoids the typical “Into the Woods” trap of layering a director’s invasive conceit atop the already fragile conceit dreamed up by the writer and composer. It is successful not unlike the way the long-running revival of “Chicago” became successful, by cutting away what it did not need and allowing for an atypical intense, direct communication with the audience.
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July 10, 2022
Yet director Lear deBessonet’s lively new Broadway revival, which opened Sunday at the St. James Theatre after a successful run last month in the Encores! series at New York City Center, dispels virtually every reservation or doubt a pesky critic could have about the show.
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July 10, 2022
The difference between a cow and a bean / Is a bean can begin an adventure. So, it turns out, can anything, even a rare break of timing, the multi-million-dollar version of let’s-put-on-a-show scrappiness. Opportunity is not a lengthy visitor.
READ THE REVIEWJuly 10, 2022
Into the Woods, which became a Meryl Streep movie in 2014, is one of Sondheim’s most popular shows. This new production follows previous Broadway runs in 1987 and 2002. They say three’s a charm — and this revival has it to spare.
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