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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. East West Players has a long history with “Pacific Overtures,” Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s 1976 musical about the opening ...

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 ...

Gedde Watanabe is a bit embarrassed about an interaction he had nearly 50 years ago with Broadway legend Stephen Sondheim. Not yet 20, and with a singing career that was little more than street ...

Somewhere on the musical-theater periodic table between the work of Bertolt Brecht and Rodgers and Hammerstein sits “Pacific Overtures.” A geopolitical history lesson wrapped in a Japanese fable ...

The enchanted woods of past and current Stephen Sondheim productions are full of Mama Roses and Georges and Sweeney Todds. Washington audiences have journeyed up the beanstalk with that giant killer ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Manuel Harlan) This is the Stephen Sondheim musical I least expected to see revived, let alone as nimbly as in this thrilling ...

The Stephen Sondheim musical “Pacific Overtures” harbors moments that are not so pacific, not least a samurai battle. Fight director Yoshi Amao was supervising a run-through of this sequence at ...

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 ...