It's a Hit? Sondheim & The New York Times (Part I)

Exploring every opening-night New York Times review of Sondheim's career (1957-1970)

“During a long professional life,” writes Stephen Sondheim in Look, I Made a Hat, “I have been both a critics’ darling and a critics’ target, sometimes simultaneously.”

The relationship between Sondheim and the critical establishment is a complex one, and worthy of exploration. We know from his essay “Critics And Their Uses” (from which the above quotati…