Helen Shaw reviews Sondheim’s adaptation of two lacerating Luis Buñuel films, which the writer David Ives and the director Joe Mantello completed after the composer’s death.
Read our four-star review of Here We Are , the final musical with songs by Stephen Sondheim, currently playing off Broadway at The Shed through January 21. Read all our theatre reviews at NewYorkTheatreGuide.com.
It was always wishful thinking to believe that Stephen Sondheim’s final musical, which was tinkered with for almost a decade before the composer died in 2021, would hold a candle to his finest works. But even going in with modest expectations and the awareness that Sondheim hadn’t created a strong show in nearly 30 years the last one being “Passion” in 1994 “Here We Are” still disappoints.