Auburn music lovers will have a chance to hear some of the most recognizable orchestral works ever written when the Auburn ...

“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 ...

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 ...

EWP was founded by nine Asian American artists (Mako, Rae Creevey, Beulah Quo, Soon-Tek Oh, James Hong, Pat Li, June Kim, Guy Lee, and Yet Lock) seeking to create roles beyond the stereotypical parts ...

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 ...

Since the word derives from the French term for "opening", you would think that overtures would usually be preludes to something else. And for the most part they are. Overtures as a rule introduce, in ...

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, ...

Nicholas Méhul (1763-1817) is an intriguing transitional figure in French music, with a career that historically spanned the final years of the reign of Louis XVI and the heyday of Napoleon, and ...

"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 ...