“Pacific Overtures” opened on Broadway in 1976, where it ran for six months and garnered ten Tony Award nominations. From May 30 to June 15, the rarely produced Stephen Sondheim musical returns, this ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gedde Watanabe is a bit embarrassed about an interaction he had nearly 50 years ago with Broadway legend Stephen Sondheim.

This is, by my reckoning at least, the third major London production over the years of Pacific Overtures, Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's dazzling curiosity of a show first seen on Broadway in ...

But this staging of Pacific Overtures completes a triptych of its revivals of ambitious Sondheim shows regarded as problematic – Assassins and Road Show (each featuring a book by John Weidman).

It’s been nine years since London last saw a production of Stephen Sondheim’s Pacific Overtures – a musical about the 1853 opening up of Japan to the West at the barrel of a gunboat. The show, first ...

This is the Stephen Sondheim musical I least expected to see revived, let alone as nimbly as in this thrilling co-production between the Menier and Osaka’s Umeda Arts Theater. Written in 1976 with a ...