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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 ...

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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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...