Gilbert and Sullivan’s quintessentially British operettas have served as an entree into musical theater for generations, delighting audiences with an expanse of comedic antics and irresistible tunes.

Rob Dickman as "Sir Joseph Porter," Kate Masson as "Josephine" and Chris Tsocanos as "Captain Corcoran" sing about a confusing arranged marriage in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta "H.M.S. Pinafore," ...

It's been a while since a Gilbert and Sullivan show has been on Broadway (since the 1987 revival of The Mikado, to be exact), so there is reason to recap... Gilbert and Sullivan were a legendary ...

There are several reasons, starting with the title (originally “Ruddygore”, until Victorian sensibilities objected), why Ruddigore has never been among the most popular of the Gilbert and Sullivan ...

The Mikado is one of Gilbert and Sullivan's most famous and frequently performed operettas. Premiering in 1885, it remains a classic of the genre. Set in the fictional Japanese town of Titipu, The ...

For Waldyn Benbenek, it all started with a poster he saw stapled to a south Minneapolis telephone pole in the summer of 1979. It offered an invitation to meet in the basement of a home in Minneapolis' ...

Some would say “Iolanthe” is the greatest operetta from the collaboration of William Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan. The show combines all the elements that had characterized their successes, said ...

Despite—or perhaps because of—its mainstream popularity, H.M.S. Pinafore and other operettas by Gilbert and Sullivan are considered by many opera purists to be beneath the lofty pursuits of a ...

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 ...

Picture John Andrews, a church organist who loved Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera. Add two willing church choirs, a few outsiders and an Episcopal bishop who not only allowed performances to take ...

The women are dressed in kimonos and have donned black-bunned wigs, while the men have penciled on mustaches in preparation for a performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Mikado.” Yet something is a ...