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 ...

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 ...

“Pacific Overtures” clearly shows how the Japanese culture suffered with the forced entry of other cultures, but this new condensed version is far more nuanced. NEW YORK—Change, be it good or bad, is ...

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 ...

Eric Schaeffer's gutsy new production of "Pacific Overtures" finds its footing in Stephen Sondheim's brilliant second-act number "Please Hello!" The multilayered comic song, caricaturing five ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The world premiere stage adaptation of “Dead Poets Society,” a David Ives play and a revival of Stephen Sondheim’s musical “Pacific Overtures” are the highlights of the Classic Stage ...

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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 ...

Musical theater aficionados might be the most fanatically opinionated followers of any popular art form, but there exist two even more passionately fired-up subsects within that group: Stephen ...