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 ...

I asked everybody to pretend that we lived in an age where being expressive and wearing your heart on your sleeve is not something to be embarrassed about. Once upon a time, every Broadway musical had ...

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 ...

Stephen Sondheim's 1976 musical about the Westernization of Japan, 'Pacific Overtures,' a unique work even by the composer's adventurous standards, gets minimalist treatment in John Doyle's meticulous ...

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, ...

In March four musicians from Alvin Atkinson and The Sound Merchants, traveled with the U.S. State Department for a new diplomacy program called Musicial Overtures. When pianist Jonathan Lefcoski ...