It’s just an absolute, magical time. It’s irreverent, it’s hilarious, it’s often slapstick at moments,” said Jack R. Damon ...

NEW YORK — W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan’s “The Pirates of Penzance” is a foundational musical. First seen in New York in 1879, this wacky yarn of swashbuckling pirates, Monty Pythonesque coppers ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Since its debut in New York City in 1879, Gilbert and Sullivan’s ...

What ever happened to Gilbert and Sullivan? Once theatrical icons, Gilbert and Sullivan — co-creators of famed comic operettas including “H.M.S. Pinafore” and “The Mikado” — have taken a noticeable ...

Had Rupert Holmes’s career ended in the early ’80s, he would be most widely remembered for “(Escape) The Piña Colada Song,” a lovably hokey pop single that was his biggest hit as a singer/songwriter.

A Broadway remake of the operetta, starring David Hyde Pierce, moves the plot to the Big Easy, where good times roll, even if some jokes don’t quite land. By Jesse Green The Hypocrites’ blithe ...

The Gilbert & Sullivan Society of Houston presents the 1983 movie musical adaptation of The Pirates of Penzance at the River Oaks Theatre. Featuring Kevin Kline in his Tony Award-winning role as The ...

W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan’s “The Pirates of Penzance” is a foundational musical. First seen in New York in 1879, this wacky yarn of swashbuckling pirates, Monty Python-esque coppers and the ...