How do you measure a year? In overtures? In dance breaks? Standing ovations? Today, we measure 2025 in Broadway shows. Before ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you like the sweeping overtures and jazzy renditions of Broadway but wish there were a greatest-hits collection (because who has time to see every single show when it comes to town?), From Broadway ...

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 ...

If gunboat diplomacy, which is perhaps a less offensive phrase than imperialism, strikes you as an odd choice for the subject of a musical, you're not alone. When "Pacific Overtures," with music and ...

Whatever Happened to the Overture? WHO could forget the great overture to A Chorus Line? First there's that infectious hop-step vamp from the song “One." Then come some of the show's most familiar ...

Gedde Watanabe is a bit embarrassed about an interaction he had nearly 50 years ago with Broadway legend Stephen Sondheim. Not yet 20, and with a singing career that was little more than street ...