Here We Are

Stephen Sondheim's 'cool, and impossibly chic' (New York Times Critic's Pick) final work, written with Tony Award-nominee David Ives. UK premiere at the National Theatre, London, in 2025.

About the author

Stephen Sondheim (1930–2021) was a celebrated American composer and lyricist, one of the most important figures in 20th-century musical theatre.

Sondheim started his theatre career by writing the lyrics for West Side Story (1957) and Gypsy (1959) before becoming a composer and lyricist. Sondheim's best-known works include A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962), Company (1970), Follies (1971), A Little Night Music (1973), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979), Merrily We Roll Along (1981), Sunday in the Park with George (1984), and Into the Woods (1987).

He won many awards including eight Tony Awards (including a Lifetime Achievement Tony in 2008), eight Grammy Awards, an Olivier Award, an Academy Award, a Pulitzer Prize, and the 2015 Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Author photo by Jerry Jackson
David Ives is an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. Amongst many other achievements, he collaborated with Stephen Sondheim on his final musical, Here We Are (The Shed, New York City, 2023; National Theatre, London, 2025).

Author photo by Walter Kurtz

Product details

• Authors: Ives David, Stephen Ives Sondheim, Sondheim Stephen
• Publisher: Hern, Nick Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.05.2025
• EAN: 9781839044731
• ISBN: 978-1-83904-473-1
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: NHB Modern Plays
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; DRAMA / American / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Broadway & Musicals, Plays, Playscripts, Musical scores, lyrics and libretti, Plays, playscripts, drama, Modern and contemporary plays / drama