Austinite Mela Sarajane Dailey is equally at home in multiple musical genres: country, pop, jazz, Broadway and classical. She plays Mrs. Lovett in Austin Opera's upcoming staging of "Sweeney Todd." ...

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The Virginia Opera and Center for the Arts have collaborated artistically for more than 20 years. This is Virginia Opera’s first production of the season, which runs through April.This production of ...

The compelling drama and dark comedy of composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim and librettist Hugh Wheeler’s 1979 Tony Award-winning musical masterpiece “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” ...

With her pastry shop on the decline and the prospect of a life sinking even further into poverty, Mrs. Lovett decides upon drastic, gruesome measures to keep her business going and to try to improve ...

Ron Daniels has a unique connection with the musical “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”: It probably wouldn’t exist without him. More than 40 years ago, it was Daniels who found the old ...

At the end of Act I, the New Orleans Opera Association's production of "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" does something important: It makes the audience laugh about cannibalism. Here's ...

It is always a little unnerving to go to see a show that you are very familiar with. How will it compare with previous productions? Does the company have the resources in terms of cast, crew and ...

The star and director of Broadway’s “Sweeney Todd” will reunite in February 2007 for Los Angeles Opera’s presentation of Kurt Weill’s “Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny.” Patti LuPone will star ...