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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 ...

Somewhere on the musical-theater periodic table between the work of Bertolt Brecht and Rodgers and Hammerstein sits “Pacific Overtures.” A geopolitical history lesson wrapped in a Japanese fable ...

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, ...

Nimble, imaginative Anglo-Japanese take on Sondheim’s screechingly high concept musical about the Westernisation of Japan There’s a lot that’s unlikely about ‘Pacific Overtures’. First, it’s a musical ...

During the two decades he has led Lyric Stage Company of Boston, Spiro Veloudos has repeatedly demonstrated his passion for the work of composer-lyricist-genius-national-treasure Stephen Sondheim. But ...

To get the new year off to a good musical start, NPR's Bob Edwards talks with commentator Miles Hoffman about overtures. There once was a time when you couldn't start an opera or a ballet without one.

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 ...

"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 ...