Stephen Sondheim’s “Pacific Overtures” is one of the master songwriter’s most rarely performed works. The show begins in 1853 and tells the tale of how an isolationist Japan was westernized when ...

“Pacific Overtures,” a Stephen Sondheim musical that doesn’t come around very often, opens Thursday night at the Classic Stage Co. The elegant production is directed by John Doyle, the CSC’s artistic ...

East West Players has a long history with “Pacific Overtures,” Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s 1976 musical about the opening of Japan to international trade by American warships in 1853 and the ...

George Takei, who recently starred in the Broadway musical Allegiance, has been cast as "Reciter" in Classic Stage Company's upcoming production of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's PACIFIC ...

In Southern California, the post-pandemic malaise finally started to lift. And the theater, quite unexpectedly, turned out to be 2024’s silver lining. The Mark Taper Forum reopened for business in the ...

The Menier Chocolate Factory has given a look at their co-production with the Umeda Arts Theater of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Pacific Overtures. Directed by Matthew White, Sondheim’s musical ...

Pacific Overtures is one of Stephen Sondheim‘s most intriguing and tantalising works, demonstrating an overlap of Oriental and American cultures starting with Commodore Perry’s battleships ("Four ...

I asked everybody to pretend that we lived in an age where being expressive and wearing your heart on your sleeve is not something to be embarrassed about. Once upon a time, every Broadway musical had ...

John Doyle’s condensed, ninety-minute Pacific Overtures is but the latest instance of bonsai Sondheim: cultivating miniatures of Saint Steve’s masterworks in small pots through careful pruning and ...