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 ...

"I'm modesty personified!" quips Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd (Phil Arevalo '11 ) in the Brown University Gilbert and Sullivan production of "Ruddigore, or The Witch's Curse" opening Friday night in Alumnae ...

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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 ...

'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 ...

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 ...

An auditorium packed with an audience of all ages was crackling with anticipation before Opera North’s new production of Ruddigore. One of Gilbert & Sullivan’s lesser-known operettas was receiving its ...

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 ...

In “Ruddigore: or The Witch’s Curse,” Gilbert and Sullivan set themselves the task of exaggerating an exaggeration. They did it, and Light Opera Works’ production of the operetta takes the process a ...