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James Elliot Lapine (born January 10, 1949) is an American stage director, playwright, screenwriter, and librettist. He has won the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical three times, for Into the Woods, Falsettos, and Passion. He has frequently collaborated with Stephen Sondheim and William Finn.
- Into the Woods
Into the Woods is a 1987 musical with music and lyrics by...
- Twelve Dreams
Twelve Dreams is a 1981 play by James Lapine that was...
- Into the Woods
Biography. JAMES LAPINE was born in Mansfield, Ohio and lived there until his early teens when his family moved to Stamford, Connecticut. He attended public schools before entering Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania where he majored in History.
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Stephen Sondheim and playwright-director James Lapine that combines the plots of familiar fairy tales. A dark comedy, the story of Into the Woods takes inspiration from the more melancholy and frightful elements of original folk and fairy tales—including the deaths of major characters—and features plot elements and figures from….
James Lapine was born on 10 January 1949 in Mansfield, Ohio, USA. He is a writer and director, known for Into the Woods (2014), American Playhouse (1982) and The Moment When. He is married to Sarah Kernochan.
- January 10, 1949
A leading American theatrical director, librettist and playwright, Ohio native James Lapine is a graduate of Franklin and Marshall College, and trained at the California Institute of the Arts as a photographer and graphic designer.
