Tag: Gilbert and Sullivan

Each actor is engrossed in the world of the comic opera, which helps audiences enter that world too. 

The Gilbert and Sullivan opera enjoys delightful singing and comic timing.

Something for everybody. That's what comes to mind when I think about the Chicago-based The Hypocrites' whiplash-inducing, gender-flipped spin on Gibert and Sullivan's H.M.S....

If you've ever found fleeting social trends to be disconcerting- never fear, so did Gilbert and Sullivan. In their comedic operetta Patience, now on...

“Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it. “ ~ Tom Lehrer Tom Lehrer's Tomfoolery, as...

George Mason University (GMU) launched its Year of Gilbert and Sullivan Celebration with a clever, bright, joyfully sung musical homage to the masterful Gilbert and...

Here are the DCMetroTheaterArts Staff's honorees for Best Direction of Musicals in Professional Theaters in 2016. Congrats to all our honorees: David James for A Christmas...

Here are the DCMetroTheaterArts Staff's honorees for Best Musicals in Professional Theaters in 2016. Congrats to all our honorees! A Christmas Carol at Toby's The Dinner...

If the idea of “sophisticated family entertainment” sounds like a contradiction in terms—an oxymoron if ever there were one—then Peter and the Starcatcher, which...

In part 1 of a series of interviews with the cast of 2nd Star Productions’ H.M.S. Pinafore, meet Brian Binney Joel: Where have local theatergoers...

A merriment of song and dance from stunning cast, 2nd Star Productions’ H.M.S. Pinafore, is a toe-tapping delight. The Music is by Arthur Sullivan and...

He’s a triple threat! He’s won Tony awards for writing the book, score, and lyrics for his Tony award-winning Best Musical The Mystery of Edwin...

The In Series’ production of Who’s the Boss? is a fusion of two comic operettas, Giovanni Pergolesi’s La Serva Padrona and Gilbert and Sullivan’s...

The Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre's (SSMT) production of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance breathes fresh and hysterically contemporary life into an older operetta. Brilliantly...

Everything old really is new again in the The Hypocrites' innovative production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado at Olney Theatre Center. When I entered the theater...

Conundrums seem to be Gilbert and Sullivan’s specialty. Their most famous works, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado, explore the comic antics that...

Meet the designers, some cast members, and the director of Prince William Little Theatre's Sherlock Holmes and the West End Horror, playing 3/11-20 at Hylton...

Pericles is a night of wonder, perfect for a romantic evening or a thought-provoking night out with family or friends. Watching it is like...

In Part 9 of a series of interviews with the director and cast of Laurel Mill Playhouse’s Sweeney Todd meet Sophia Nasreen Riazi-Sekowski. Joel: Please introduce...

In Part 8 of a series of interviews with the director and cast of Laurel Mill Playhouse’s Sweeney Todd meet Andrew Exner. Joel: Please introduce...