Into the Woods

Scoring three Tonys for its 1988 Broadway premiere, Into the Woods has become one of Stephen Sondheim’s signature works, a delightful and deadpan mash-up of the several Brothers Grimm fairy tales featuring some of the composer’s most persistent earworms and plenty of narrative surprises. As a baker enters fabled woods to secure the ingredients needed to reverse a witch’s curse that has left his family childless, his story collides with others who have ventured into the mystical space, among them Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood and Jack (of the Beanstalk fame). Oct. 14–29: various show times; $52–$90