Stephen Sondheim is the subject of a profile in Time magazine. Writer Carla Power looks to answer the question oft posed by fans of musical theatre, wondering when the next Sondheim will come along. "There won't be any," she says. "Not because high-brow musical theater is dead, but because the old Sondheim keeps on being new." As new productions of the composer's works continue to surface and flourish every year, she suggests, the enduring power and timelessness of Sondheim asserts itself anew.

In addition to seeing current revivals of West Side Story, his 1957 collaboration with Leonard Bernstein, on Broadway, and his 1973 piece A Little Night Music, in London, the 79-year-old composer recently brought a new work, Road Show, to the New York stage. Nonesuch is set to release the cast recording, which was supervised by the composer, this summer.

While Sondheim is quick to credit his collaborators to help explain the longevity of his works, director Trevor Nunn, who is helming the current London production of A Little Night Music, tells Time to look to the composer himself.

"Nunn compares the lyricist's poetic gift and humanism to Shakespeare's," writes Power. "Both men, he says, are 'fascinated with the contradictions of human beings, with their complexities and ambiguities. As with Shakespeare, there's heightened poetic expression in Sondheim, but when you dig into it, you find it's in touch with something real.'"

Power concludes, "When it comes to Sondheim, debate about the future of the musical misses the point. He occupies a place in the pantheon not of musical theater, but of theater itself."

Read the complete article at time.com. Stay tuned to the Nonesuch Journal for more information on the forthcoming release of Road Show.