• Excerpt from Leonard Bernstein by Humphrey Burton
• Excerpt from Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell is This? by Marion Meade
• Candide or Omnibus? by Leonard Bernstein

1956 Broadway Production

• Excerpt from Leonard Bernstein by Humphrey Burton
• Excerpt from the New York Herald Tribune article by Don Ross
• Excerpts from various newspaper reviews
• Excerpts from the liner notes of cast recording (1991 reissue) by Didier C. Deutsch
• Excerpt from A Life in the Theater by Tyrone Guthrie
• Excerpt from Harold Prince and the American Musical Theatre by Foster Hirsch
• Excerpt from Not Since Carrie by Ken Mandelbaum

1973 Chelsea Theater Production

• Excerpt from Harold Prince and the American Musical Theatre by Foster Hirsch
• Excerpt from Sondheim & Co. by Craig Zadan
• Review by Clive Barnes in the New York Times
• Review by Walter Kerr in the New York Times

1974 Broadway Revival

• Article by Robert Berkvist in the New York Times
• Review by Clive Barnes in the New York Times

1982 New York City Opera Production

• Article by John Rockwell in the New York Times
• Liner note by John Mauceri from the cast recording
• Liner note by Theodore S. Chapin from the cast recording
• Excerpt from Harold Prince and the American Musical Theatre by Foster Hirsch
• Review by Donal Henahan in the New York Times

1988 Scottish Opera Production

• Candide or No Exit by John Mauceri

1989 Leonard Bernstein Recording

• Leonard Bernstein Talks About Candide [from the recording's liner notes]
• Candide: An Introduction by Andrew Porter [from the recording's liner notes]
• Review of the recording by Jon Alan Conrad in the New York Times
• Review of the recording by Patrick J. Smith in the Opera News
• Review of the recording in the Christian Science Monitor
• Review of the recording by Herbert Glass in the Los Angeles Times
• Review of the recording by Joseph McLellan in the Washington Post
• Review of the recording by Susan Reiter in Musical America
• Review of the recording by David Gelman in Newsweek
• Review of the video by Martin Bernheimer in the Los Angeles Times
• Review of the video by Charles Passey in Musical America
• Review of the video by Mark Swed in the Wall Street Journal

1994 Chicago Lyric Opera Production

• Review by John von Rhein in Opera News

1995 Los Angeles Production

• Article by Mark Swed in the Los Angeles Times
• Review by Martin Bernheimer in the Los Angeles Times
• Review by Laurie Winer in the Los Angeles Times
• Review by Richard S. Ginell in the American Record Guide

1997 Broadway Revival

• Article by Jim Beckerman in The Record
• Review by Howard Kissel in the New York Daily News
• Review by Ben Brantley in the New York Times
• Review by Clive Barnes in the New York Post
• Review by Linda Winer in Newsday
• Review by David Patrick Stearns in USA Today
• Review by Greg Evans in Variety
• Review by Stefan Kanfer in The New Leader
• Review by David Sterrett in The Christian Science Monitor
• Review by Seth Goldstein in Billboard

1998 London Symphony Orchestra Concert

• Review by Edward Seckerson in The Independent
• Review by Rupert Christiansen in The Daily Telegraph

1999 Royal National Theatre Production

• Review by Robert Butler in The Independent
• Review by John Gross in The Sunday Telegraph
• Review by Michael White in The Independent
• Review by Matt Wolf in Variety
• Review by Sheridan Morley [truncated] in The International Herald Tribune
• Review by Sheridan Morley [complete] in The Spectator
• Review by Michael Tanner in The Spectator
• Excerpts from other reviews in various newspapers and magazines
• Review of the recording in the American Record Guide

2004 New York Philharmonic Concerts

• Review by Anthony Tommasini in the New York Times
• Review by Terry Teachout in the Wall Street Journal
• Review by Peter G. Davis in New York Magazine
• Review by Steven Winn in the San Francisco Chronicle
• Review by Marc Shulgold of Scripps Howard News Service
• Review by David Patrick Stearns in the Philadelphia Inquirer

Other Productions

• Review by Martin Bernheimer in the Los Angeles Times of the NYCO production in Los Angeles (1987)
• Review by Leighton Kerner in The Village Voice of the Opera Theatre of St. Louis production (1994)
• Review by Richard Dyer in the Boston Globe of the Boston Lyric Opera production (1995)
• Review by April Austin in the Christian Science Monitor of the Boston Lyric Opera production (1995)
• Review by Lloyd Rose in the Washington Post of the Arena Stage produciton (1996)
• Article by Marc Shulgold in the Denver Rocky Mountain News about the Center City Opera production (2000)
• Review by Marc Shulgold in the Denver Rocky Mountain News of the Center City Opera production (2000)
• Review by Marc Shulgold in Opera News of the Center City Opera production (2000)
• Article by Angela Allen in The Columbian of the Portland Opera production (2002)
• Review by David Stabler in Opera News of the Portland Opera production (2002)
• Review by Richard Dyer in the Boston Globe of the Boston Conservatory Theater production (2003)
• Review by Mark Swed in the Los Angeles Times of the Opera Pacific production (2004)

General Articles

• Article by James Wierzbicki in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1994)
• "How Good Was Leonard Bernstein?" by Terry Teachout in Commentary (1994)
• Article by Rupert Christiansen in The Daily Telegraph (1999)
• Article by Mark Steyn in The Daily Telegraph (1999)
• "Making Your Garden Growl: Lillian Hellman and Candide" by Brooks Peters in Opera News (2000)
• "Perpetual Promise" by Martin Bernheimer in Opera News (2000)
• "The Bernstein Legacy" by Joan Peyser in Opera News (2000)
• "Thinking About Life: In Candide's Garden" by Peter Coleman for United Press International (2002)
• "Bernstein's Broadway: The Road Not Taken" by Ed Siegel in the Boston Globe (2003)