I was a weird child. When my friends had pictures of ’70s heartthrobs like Donny Osmond and David Cassidy on their bedroom walls, I had posters advertising the London-based D’Oyly Carte Opera Company.

It is my fervent hope that members of the cast of the company that last Spring gave a series of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas in New York were not among the audience at the Martin Beck Theatre last ...

As the little steamer brought him into New York Harbor one July day in 1879, Richard D’Oyly Carte nervously paced the narrow deck with many a grave misgiving. H. M. S. Pinafore, of which he was ...

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 ...

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.