NEW YORK (AP) — "Star Trek" star George Takei is going from Broadway to off-Broadway — he'll next star in a spring revival of "Pacific Overtures" by the Classic Stage Company. Takei, who was on ...

“Pacific Overtures,” a Stephen Sondheim musical that doesn’t come around very often, opens Thursday night at the Classic Stage Co. The elegant production is directed by John Doyle, the CSC’s artistic ...

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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 ...

The enchanted woods of past and current Stephen Sondheim productions are full of Mama Roses and Georges and Sweeney Todds. Washington audiences have journeyed up the beanstalk with that giant killer ...

The ongoing repercussions of the culture clash depicted in the 1976 musical "Pacific Overtures" were neatly illustrated onstage and off Tuesday night at Avery Fisher Hall, where a Japanese production ...

I’m sure I’m not alone in remembering my junior high school history class about Admiral Perry and the “opening” of Japan. We know that Perry and his ships arrived with a double mandate: Get the ...

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 ...

When it premiered on Broadway in 1976, “Pacific Overtures” was an East-meets-West spectacle. Well, make that an East-fails-to-fend-off-West spectacle. But in the ensuing 43 years, the spectacle bar ...

"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 ...