Posts Tagged ‘John Weidman’
PACIFIC OVERTURES
Monday, November 11th, 2024
Stephen Sondheim fans could not wish for a more spectacular pick-me-up from post-election blues than East West Players’ Broadway-couldn’t-do-it-better production of Sondheim and John Weidman’s rarely-revived 1976 classic Pacific Overtures.
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ASSASSINS
Monday, February 21st, 2022
Presidential killers and would-be killers take center stage at East West Players in Assassins, Stephen Sondheim at his most provocative, innovative, and engrossing.
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PACIFIC OVERTURES
Sunday, December 3rd, 2017Chromolume Theatre offers Stephen Sondheim aficionados the chance to catch the rarely performed Pacific Overtures, and though the musical itself will probably never rank high on my list of Sondheim favorites, its many fans will find much to admire in this full-length intimate staging.
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ASSASSINS
Sunday, September 6th, 2015Haste is of the essence in catching Red Blanket Productions’ superb intimate stage revival of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Assassins, not simply because only weeks remain in what looks to be a sold-out run at the Pico Playhouse but because, if Actors Equity has its way, starting next June you will never again see such a 99-seat production in Los Angeles County. Ever. (More on that later.)
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