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 ...

With Marjorie Prime currently running at the company's home base in South London and Funny Girl on Broadway, the Menier Chocolate Factory announced forthcoming programming for 2023. The venue, which ...

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 ...

A Little Night Music, Porchlight Theatre, at the Theatre Building, and Pacific Overtures, Chicago Shakespeare Theater. With its tender, hummable songs and wry comic tale of sexual intrigue and midlife ...

PACIFIC OVERTURES: Musical. Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Book by John Weidman. Directed by Robert Kelley. (Through Sept. 23. TheatreWorks at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, ...

MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - A new musical is coming to the Overture Center this summer! The Overture Center announced on Tuesday the bestselling novel “Water for Elephants” will be coming to Overture Hall ...

Franco Zeffirelli once remarked that directors rarely staged Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” effectively, because they either emphasized the comedy or the drama and rarely got the right balance. The same ...

The ongoing repercussions of the culture clash depicted in the 1976 musical "Pacific Overtures" were neatly illustrated onstage and off Tuesday night at Avery Fisher Hall, where a Japanese production ...