COHOES — In 1990, Joseph Papp and the Public Theater produced an updated version of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Pirates of Penzance.” It proved the operetta, written in 1879, could be enormously entertaining to modern audiences. Cohoes Music Hall goes one st

If Charles Dickens had lived until 1888, he might have been among the select group of British eminentoes who recorded their voices for Thomas Edison’s newfangled phonograph. Robert Browning did it, though the aged poet forgot his own verses in mid-recita

Beau Saunders / Lamp Lighters Chris Uzelac (left) and Robert Vann are the gondoliers Giuseppe and Marco, one of whom is a prince in disguise, in the Lamplighters' production of "The Gondoliers." By the time they got around to creating "The Gondoliers," t

Blue Hill Troupe, the New York City musical theatre group that donates its net proceeds to charity, will present a new edition of W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan’s Utopia Limited April 20-28 at El Teatro of El Museo del Barrio in Manhattan. Directed by

Buses of fans were disappointed when they left the small farming town of Norwich to watch a favourite local son sing the title role in The Mikado in nearby Stratford, Ont. "I didn't appear until the second act," says John Avey, who sings The Mikado in Ed

STUDENTS of the late Victorian arts world will know Patience as Gilbert and Sullivan's dig at the Aesthetic Movement and its preening champions such as Swinburne and Wilde and the artists Whistler and Aubrey Beardsley. No need to bone up on your history