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, ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

EWP was founded by nine Asian American artists (Mako, Rae Creevey, Beulah Quo, Soon-Tek Oh, James Hong, Pat Li, June Kim, Guy Lee, and Yet Lock) seeking to create roles beyond the stereotypical parts ...

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 ...

Alvin Y. F. Ing, who starred in both the original 1976 Broadway production of Pacific Overtures and the musical's Main Stem revival in 2004, passed away July 31 due to COVID-19 complications at ...

Since the word derives from the French term for "opening", you would think that overtures would usually be preludes to something else. And for the most part they are. Overtures as a rule introduce, in ...

"Pacific Overtures" chimes freshly resonant chords in a new London staging that finds a 1976 musical that's taken up with history also intersecting with it anew. Returning to the repertoire of Stephen ...

"Pacific Overtures is a show like none other," said director Nick Ishimaru. "It has some of Sondheim's best music--by his own estimation, Act 1's finale 'Someone in a Tree' is the most perfect song he ...