Into the Woods hews a fresh, intimate path into Stephen Sondheim's musical
At Writers Theatre, Gary Griffin stages a rich and rewarding revival of the popular fairy-tale mash-up. In Look, I Made a Hat, the second volume of his lyrics and musings about his work, Stephen Sondheim notes the unlikely genesis for Into the Woods: he and book writer James Lapine had concocted an idea for a TV special mashing up characters from similar comedies (Ralph and Alice Kramden …