It’s a stretch to make this slight 19th-century satire speak to a modern audience, and tremendous singing is not enough to make it do so here It’s now most of a theatre-going lifetime since Gilbert ...

SUDBURY — The Sudbury Savoyards, a local performing arts group, are set to begin their 63rd season with a production of "Ruddigore" next month, officials announced in a press release. This operetta by ...

'It's like Marmite. You either love it or you hate it." I am told this at least three times during the couple of days I spend with ­Opera North at Leeds Grand theatre, where they are rehearsing ...

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The Broadway musical did not originate on Broadway. It started at London’s Savoy Theatre with the sparkling work of W.S. Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan. These theater titans created a special sort of ...

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The New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players return to City Center for a ten-performance stint of four operettas, comprising the so-called big three Pinafore,” “Pirates” and “Mikado” plus “Ruddigore.” The ...

It’s not as well known as “H.M.S. Pinafore” or “The Pirates of Penzance,” but “Ruddigore,” Gilbert and Sullivan’s scariest operetta, remains a delightful Gothic confection that features a witch’s ...

After the instant – and durable – triumph of The Mikado in 1885, Gilbert and Sullivan knew that whatever they produced next was likely to be regarded as an anti-climax. And so it proved. Gilbert ...