Rick Pender

Rick Pender , author of The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia , is a respected authority on Stephen Sondheim and the composer/lyricist's 18 Broadway musicals. Pender is past chair of the American Theatre Critics Association and was the executive editor and publisher of Everything Sondheim and managing editor of The Sondheim Review . He has written for CityBeat , Cincinnati's alternative newsweekly, since it was founded in 1994. In 2002 and again in 2017, the Society of Professional Journalists...See more

Rick Pender , author of The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia , is a respected authority on Stephen Sondheim and the composer/lyricist's 18 Broadway musicals. Pender is past chair of the American Theatre Critics Association and was the executive editor and publisher of Everything Sondheim and managing editor of The Sondheim Review . He has written for CityBeat , Cincinnati's alternative newsweekly, since it was founded in 1994. In 2002 and again in 2017, the Society of Professional Journalists named him Ohio's best critic. See less