Scholarly works
Academic papers, theses and dissertations
Bain, Landon Lee. Sondheim and Authorship: Assassins as a Case Study
MFA thesis, UC San Diego (2017)
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/82c1r3q3#article_main
Blustein, Nathan. Through arrangements of shadows: experiences of reprise in Stephen Sondheim's lightmotivic musicals
Dissertation, Indiana University (2020)
https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/25790
Borke, Ted. Love Takes Time: The Music of Cole Porter and Stephen Sondheim
Honors Thesis, Ball State University (2009)
Calderazzo, Diana Louis., Stephen Sondheim's Gesamtkunstwerk: The Concept Musical As Wagnerian Total Theatre
Masters Thesis, University of Central Florida (2005)
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1436&context=etd
DeLong, Darcie. Careful the Things You Say: Sondheim’s Didactic Nature and its Effects on Community
Paper, Milligan University (2012)
Fernandez, Julian. Stephen Sondheim: identity construction in the context of postmodernism
Masters thesis, University of Birmingham. (2022)
https://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/eprint/12895/
Flavin, Sandra. The Cultural Perspectives of West Side Story
Honors thesis, Middle Tennessee State University (2019)
https://jewlscholar.mtsu.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/b518830c-0ff5-4e99-9d8b-c6c9f9b89a16/content
Francis, Benjamin James. careful the spell you cast: disillusionment and maturity in the musical theatre of Stephen Sondheim
Doctoral Thesis, University of London (2019)
https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/29695/1/THE_Thesis_FrancisB_2019.pdf
Frances Sharpe-Levine, Elizabeth. “Someday Just Began”: Directing Stephen Sondheim & George Furth’s Merrily We Roll Along
Honors Thesis, Tufts University (2012)
https://dl.tufts.edu/pdfviewer/db78tp95r/3r075554s
Goffard, Kevin P. 'Give Us More Us More To See': a Feminist and Queer Look at Stephen Sondheim
Masters Thesis, Illinois State University (2021)
https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/etd/1436/
Housez, Lara. Becoming Stephen Sondheim
Dissertation, Eastman School of Music (2013)
Dissertation, Louisiana State (2013)
https://repository.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/752/
Lambert, Josephine Gay. Finishing the Hat where there never was a hat: a critical analysis of the words and music of Stephen Sondheim and their relationship to the development of musical theatre as an art form
Dissertation, University of South Africa (1998)
https://uir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/17165
Lipman, Rebecca. Stephen Sondheim and Musical Characterization
Honors Thesis, Emory College (2012)
https://etd.library.emory.edu/concern/etds/jh343t21p?locale=pt-BR
Manning, Peter. Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd: A Study
Masters Thesis, National University of Ireland, Maynooth (2014)
https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/7688/1/Peter%20Manning%20THESIS.pdf
Manno, Noah. Stephen Sondheim: Political and Cultural Awareness in Into The Woods
Senior Thesis Millersville University of Pennsylvania, (2023)
https://millersville.tind.io/record/109879?ln=en
Miskoff, Ashley. Interrogation of the American Dream in Stephen Sondheim's Assassins”
Honors Thesis, Florida State University (2011)
https://diginole.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/object/fsu:204432/datastream/PDF/view
McHugh, D. Climb High : Sondheim at the gateway to his career
Article, The University of Sheffield, UK (2019)
https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/151204/3/SMT_13_2_art_McHugh_CE%20%282%29.pdf
Matthew Nash-Brown. Everybody Says Don't: An Examination of Works by Stephen Sondheim in High School Theatre Programs
University of Central Florida (2020)
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd2020/105/
Pribyl, Ashley. Sociocultural and collaborative antagonism in the Harold Prince - Stephen Sondheim musicals (1970 to 1979)
Dissertation, Washington University (2019)
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/art_sci_etds/1940/
Purin, Peter. “I've a Voice, I've a Voice": Determining Stephen Sondheim's Compositional Style Through a Music-theoretic Analysis of His Theater Works
Dissertation, University of Kansas (2011)
https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/handle/1808/9764?show=full
Rubel, Jeffrey. ‘You never need an analyst with Bobby around’: The mid-20th-century human sciences in Sondheim and Furth's musical Company
Article, University of Cambridge (2022)
https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/items/b0632e72-e3e6-4929-a812-8bbd34f226b2
Smith, Helen. The Art of Glorification: A History of Pastiche, and its use within Sondheim's 'Follies'
Article
Stith, Nathan. Creating West Side Story: An Investigation of the Sociopolitical Backgrounds and Collaborative Relationships of Jerome Robbins, Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim in the Creation of the Original Broadway Production of West Side Story
Masters Thesis, University of Colorado Boulder (2011)
https://scholar.colorado.edu/concern/parent/v979v342w/file_sets/2n49t2092
Temple, Heidi A. "Every Now and Then a Madman's Bound to Come along…" the Use of Disability Metaphor in the Musicals of Stephen Sondheim
Masters Thesis, Florida State University (2006)
https://isle.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/object/fsu%3A176131
Urbinati, Robert Paul. Treatment of Character in the Lyrics of Stephen Sondheim: A. Little Night Music and Pacific Overtures
Dissertation, University of Michigan (1994)
Worshom, Luke. "You're New or Else You're Through": How Collaborating with James Lapine Kept Stephen Sondheim Fresh and Youthful in His Fifties and Sixties
senior honors thesis, Belmont University, (2022)
https://repository.belmont.edu/honors_theses/76/
Wong, Hei Yin. Connecting the dots: disjunction and coherence in selected Broadway musicals from the 1980s by Stephen Sondheim
Masters Thesis, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2014) https://www.academia.edu/44402422/Connecting_the_Dots_Disjunction_and_Coherence_in_Selected_Broadway_Musicals_from_the_1980s_by_Stephen_Sondheim