This week, Winter Opera Saint Louis is staging Gilbert and Sullivan’s Yeomen of the Guard (October 30 and November 1) and the director, John Stephens, has a historic connection to the opera. Stephens ...
3 ICYMI: Next On Stage: Season 5- Meet the Top 5 4 ICYMI: Meet the Next On Stage: Season 6 Finalists The best-known and most-loved of all the Savoy operas (at least to American audiences), The Pirates ...
Scott Benson admits that he's a Gilbert & Sullivan nerd — although aficionado would be the kinder term. Benson, the former Minneapolis City Council member and now trial litigator, got hooked on the ...
Set sail with this classic comedy that boasts one of the most famous patter songs in musical theatre history. A fresh take on ...
On a recent March evening, men in red capes stomped, women waved imaginary fairy wands and a guy in a suit jumped over a shepherd’s staff in the Chatterton School auditorium in Merrick. They were ...
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' ...
The Yeomen of the Guard is the problem play of the Savoy Operas: the one that opera snobs carefully avoid mentioning when dismissing G&S in a flurry of unexamined prejudices and throwaway references ...
The comedic operas of Gilbert & Sullivan will be performed with a twist at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 29 at the main theatre of the Stocker Arts Center at the Lorain County Community College campus, located at ...