Review: ‘Here We Are’ opens off-Broadway, Sondheim’s final, life-loving musical

NEW YORK — As his last musical “Here We Are” confirms, Stephen Sondheim died happy, at the top of his lyrical and compositional game and clearly in love.

“To love is to live” was a Sondheim creed. So the chance to sit in a theater seat at The Shed in New York and hear not just the words “Shakespeare” and “Tesla” sharing a lyric, but cascades of beautiful new Sondheim music spilling from the stage, with a roaring sense