Assassins Scribe John Weidman to Receive 2016 Stephen Sondheim Award
(© David Gordon)
Noted Broadway librettist John Weidman will receive Signature Theatre's annual Stephen Sondheim Award, presented at a ceremony at the Embassy of Italy on April 4. The Sondheim Award Gala benefits the Virginia-based theater's artistic, education, and community programs.
The Stephen Sondheim Award was created in 2010 to recognize the importance of Sondheim's work to Signature and to theater in general. Past recipients include Sondheim musical veterans Angela Lansbury, Bernadette Peters, Patti LuPone, director Harold Prince, and orchestrator Jonathan Tunick.
Weidman's collaboration with Sondheim began in 1976 with Pacific Overtures and continued with Assassins in 1990 and Road Show in 2008. Mr. Weidman also collaborated with Susan Stroman on the Tony Award-winning musical Contact. From 1999 to 2009 he served as President of the Dramatists Guild of America and has won over a dozen Emmy Awards for Outstanding Writing for a Children's Program for his work on Sesame Street since 1986.
