James Lapine

Broadway (as book writer and director): Sunday in the Park With George, Into the Woods, Passion, Falsettos (with William Finn), Dirty Blonde (by Claudia Shear and conceived with her); as director: Golden Child, The Diary of Anne Frank, Amour, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Off-Broadway: wrote the plays Table Settings; Twelve Dreams; Luck, Pluck and Virtue; The Moment When; and Fran's Bed. Three Tony Awards, five Drama Desk Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize with Stephen Sondheim for Sunday in the Park With George. (As of December 2008)

Reviews

“Has an exhilarating champagne tang...In an operatic mode, sans dialogue, Finn...unveils the bitter sweet saga of Marvin, who divorces his wife o be with his male lover...In astringency and cleverness, Finn is the child of Stephen Sondheim.”
— Time
“One feels the unmistakable charge of pure talent.”
— New York Times