“A visual tour-de-force, with the large overhead screen suddenly and stunningly fragmented midway through the show, after which Sondheim comes at the audience from all angles. Set designer Beowulf Boritt cleverly make this possible.”     ~Steven Suskin, Variety

“The presentation is especially brilliant, giving us the sense of being inside a Rubik’s Cube or two. On a mighty revolve, we get a wall of rectangles that can split up into all sorts of configurations, go off in sundry directions, replicate one image or offer many in a visual crazy quilt of talking heads, colorful designs or abstractions. Now it’s Sondheim speaking from them, now it’s merry pictures, geometric shapes and color washes.“  ~ John Simon, Bloomberg News

“Visually, the production is a stunner. Beowulf Boritt’s ingenious scenic design consists of moving banks of screens  and scrims.”    ~Charles McNulty, LA Times

“A crisp physical production that includes Beowulf Boritt’s moving-building-block set.”    ~Ben Brantley, New York Times

“Beowulf Boritt's modular set, which keeps breaking up into different pieces, is arresting.”  ~Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter

“Designer Beowulf Boritt and videographer Peter Flaherty stick Sondheim's face on every projectable-upon surface you could conceive, constantly changing its scale, scrambling his body and features into little pieces and reassembling them differently (an apt metaphor for his oeuvre).“   ~Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune

“Beowulf Boritt has designed a cool, clever setting that rearranges video screens in a multitude of ways suggesting jigsaw and crossword puzzles. This environment can be a neutral place or turn dramatic as it does for an unsettling "Assassins" excerpt. The designers present a particularly lovely evocation of a half-ruined theater for a haunting version of the "Waiting for the Girls Upstairs" octet from "Follies."”    ~Michael Sommers, Star Ledger

“The revolving set... is like a giant puzzle which can be used in any combination of ways is put to great use as bit by bit his songs and life are deconstructed and brought together in many moments of brilliance.”   ~Oscar Moore, Talk Entertainment.com

“The screen used for the videographed images initially looks like a giant version of Apple's i-pad. Next it becomes an amazingly chameleonic design, and ultimately a Sondheim à la Chuck Close image. The integration of Flaherty's computer wizardry, Beowulf Boritt’s set and Ken Billington's gorgeously evocative lighting is a master class in merging filmed and live content.”    ~Elyse Sommer, Curtain Up

“Beowulf Boritt’s revolving imagination-landscape staircase (strewn with more of those monitors) gives things exactly the up-to-the-minute feel you’d expect.”   ~Matthew Murray, Talkin’ Broadway  

To view a New York Times article about the projection design of Sondheim on Sondheim, click here

To view a New York Times slide show with set sketches for the production, click here