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 ...

Kunoichi Productions has revealed the cast and creative team for John Weidman and Stephen Sondheim’s PACIFIC OVERTURES, performing May 30–June 15, 2025 at San Francisco’s Brava Theater. Mixing ...

Following this season's triumphant production of Assassins, Roundabout presents another landmark musical by Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman. Pacific Overtures tells the history of Japan, from ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gioachino Rossini is one of history's best-loved opera composers, and his overtures are the perfect place to get a flavour of them. Find out why with our guide to his best ones! You can't get very far ...

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 ...