Sunday in the Park with George

About this event

A full-scale musical comes to the tiny Mill Theatre with Sunday in the Park with George, the 1984 Broadway landmark featuring music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Lapine. Inspired by Georges Seurat and his monumental painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884–1886), the musical brings to life the days leading up to the completion of that masterpiece. As Seurat immerses himself obsessively in pointillist precision, he struggles to make meaningful art while maintaining his relationship with his lover, Dot. Scorned by the artistic establishment yet unwavering in his vision, his creative brilliance intensifies even as his personal world begins to fracture.

A century later, the story shifts to Seurat's fictionalised great-grandson, also named George, a contemporary artist burnt out, cynical, and searching for direction in a world that feels disconnected from purpose. In tracing the parallel journeys of two artists across time, the musical merges past and present into a moving meditation on ambition, love, legacy, and the cost of creation. One of the most acclaimed musicals of our time, it won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and was nominated for ten Tony Awards, including Best Musical.