Gilbert and Sullivan News

Community theater takes on new meaning when Caleb Pitkin plays the Pirate King in "The Pirates of Penzance." In 1939, his grandfather, Royce Pitkin, played the same role on the same Plainfield Town Hall stage.

Even if you're not a Gilbert & Sullivan fan, chances are that you're at least familiar with pieces of 'H.M.S. Pinafore.' The amusing and catchy musical numbers have been heard in films such as 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' and 'The Good Shepherd' as well as on TV in 'The West Wing,' 'Family Guy' and 'The Simpsons.' Heck, there's even a 'Star Trek' ...

CINDERELLA THE MUSICAL I attended writer-director Chris De Carlo & Evelyn Rudie's musical adaptation of the timeless fairy tale with my 9-year-old niece, Rachel.

Phillip Collister, an associate professor of voice and opera at Towson, will make his debut on Saturday as the music director and conductor for the Young Victorian Theatre Company.

Any number of arts organizations in Baltimore have come and gone over the decades, while the Young Victorian Theatre Company keeps chugging along, to the appreciation of Gilbert and Sullivan fans throughout the area.

The Summer Savoyards will embark on their 49th summer season of Gilbert & Sullivan operettas on July 9-12 when they present "H.M.S. Pinafore" in the air-conditioned Chamber Hall at the Anderson Center at Binghamton University.

Orpheus in the Underworld at Holland Park, review An amiable production of Offenbach's operetta makes for a pleasant but uninspired summer evening's entertainment.

Taking drama out of the theatre sounds like a good idea. But what happens when it rains? Matt Thomas speaks to the director of a Welsh al fresco stage company OPEN-AIR theatre comes with its own set of challenges.

AHOY me hearties - there will be a swashbuckling pirate production staged in Weston and Worle this month.

Lincoln Christian Church will present Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Pirates of Penzance" Send a link to a friend The cast includes Bob Kurka, Patrick Perry, Randy Storm, Jeremy Goeckner, Brian Welter, Kristee Smith, Beverly Kurka, Sheralyn Bolton, Annie Sheley, Gail King, Miriam Carter, Kate Harmon, Elizabeth Carter, Alexis Hill, Casey Kennett, ...

"A rollicking band of pirates" are coming to Leddy Center's new beautiful and fully accessible theater on Ladd's Lane in Epping, July 10-July 26.

"Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" isn't the longest movie of all time, it just seems that way.

The Monroe Area Opera, based in Sweetwater, Tenn., is looking for singers of all voice types to participate in four productions planned for ther 2009-2010 opera season.

It was only two weeks before the June 30 opening of "Brigadoon" when we asked College Light Opera Company co-producer Robert Haslun about photos of the season's first show.

THE members of Portlaoise Musical Society are now planning their next show and are working hard to make it bigger and better than last year.

St. Thomas Playhouse will present Pirates of Penzance, Junior and Fiddler on the Roof, Junior with Company B Performing Arts Day Camp For Children and Youth June 18-21, 2009 at The Community School Theater at 2 p.m. Fiddler on the Roof, Junior is the heartwarming story of the dairyman Tevye, his family and the village of Anatevka in Czarist Russia ...

THE HM Frigate Unicorn in Dundee is the ideal location for a production of Gilbert & Sullivan's "The Gondoliers" this week.

Baritone Lucas Meachem was the high-stepping Strephon in the San Francisco Symphony's production of Gilbert & Sullivan's "Iolanthe." Class-crazy England loves to lampoon its lords and ladies and their stuck-up ways.

A VICTORIAN weekend will raise funds for the restoration of Staverton's medieval parish church.

Theatre is presenting Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance with an all-male cast - from Wednesday, July 15 to Saturday, August 8, 2009.