New objects on display including a bar cart owned by Hammerstein, objects donated by family members and Sondheim memorabilia.

Richard Linklater dissects the bitterness of a Broadway great in Blue Moon, his sharp look at a Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart afterparty.

When Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein arrived in Boston in March 1945, they were worried. Just days earlier, the ...

From April 4-13, the Boston Lyric Opera will present its 80th anniversary production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “Carousel” at ...

I refer to the lyricist and librettist Oscar Hammerstein, the author of “South Pacific” and “The King and I” and so many other musicals, who is now the subject of a just published ...

Incomparable and unique in their ability to write both libretti and lyrics, Oscar Hammerstein and Alan Jay Lerner brought the musical theater to an artistic peak that remains unsurpassed.

On March 31, 1943, the musical "Oklahoma!" premiered on Broadway at the St. James Theatre in New York City.According to the ...

The New York Times boiled down the film with songs by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein to “romantic nonsense and sentiment.” The Post was kinder, declaring the story “indestructibly ...

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Composer Richard Rodgers had wanted to adapt a rural folk drama of the 1930s — “Green Grow the Lilacs” — to the musical stage and felicitously, lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II, who also ...