2 Watch: Next On Stage's High School & College Top 5 Revealed 3 Watch: Next On Stage Season 6 Finalists Revealed I think you are referring to the original show. I played one of the Kanagawa girls. A ...

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 ...

East West Players has a long history with “Pacific Overtures,” Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s 1976 musical about the opening of Japan to international trade by American warships in 1853 and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK--Contrived by a master of the double negative, Stephen Sondheim’s saucy satires of what we aren’t often end up celebrating what we are. So, there’s a certain Sondheimian logic that “Pacific ...

The movie overture—music set against a blank screen or still images before the drama unfolds—all but disappeared from film sometime in the 1970s. Once a Hollywood mainstay, overtures evolved naturally ...

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 ...

"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 ...