Pirates! The Penzance Musical Original Broadway Cast Recording, now available via streaming and digital formats. The CD edition is released on 14 November 2026 (Center Stage Records). Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The opening jazz number transports us to a joint-jumping New Orleans in this recording of ‘Pirates! The Penzance Musical’. […]
Tag Archives | Gilbert and Sullivan
The Mikado – Wilton’s Music Hall
The Mikado continues at Wilton’s Music Hall, London until 1 July 2023. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩
Victorian ghosts and a sensational cast for Ruddigore at Wilton’s Music Hall
Victorian ghosts and a sensational cast are set to raise the roof at Wilton’s Music Hall in an unmissable production of Gilbert & Sullivan’s Ruddigore or The Witch’s Curse, from 14-25 March 2023.
The Yeomen of the Guard – London Coliseum
The Yeomen of the Guard continues at the London Coliseum until 2 December 2022. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩
Full cast for Sasha Regan’s all-male H.M.S Pinafore
Juan Jackson will lead the 16-strong cast assembled for Sasha Regan’s new production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic masterpiece H.M.S Pinafore when the latest production from Regan’s award-winning all-male company sails into Wilton’s Music Hall next month. Jackson (Five Guys Named Moe, Gatehouse Theatre, Artaban The Musical, The Actors’ Church) who will take the helm […]
Winchester berth announced for Sasha Regan’s H.M.S. Pinafore
Following an early spring season in London, Sasha Regan’s award-winning all-male company will sail into the Theatre Royal Winchester in April with its new version of Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic masterpiece H.M.S. Pinafore. Due to play the Wilton’s Music Hall in East London from 16 March until 9 April, the nautical adventure which follows the […]
Online showcase open for Sasha Regan’s H.M.S Pinafore
The search is on for new shipmates to join Sasha Regan’s award-winning all-male company when they sail into Wilton’s Music Hall this spring with a new version of Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic masterpiece H.M.S Pinafore. Following on from the recent live theatre and streaming success of Regan’s critically-acclaimed re-imagining of another G&S favourite, The Pirates […]
Festive chance to view Sasha Regan’s The Pirates of Penzance
Home-bound theatre-lovers will get another chance to see the hit West End production of Sasha Regan’s award-winning all-male version of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance this Christmas. Recorded live at the Palace Theatre on 13 December 2020, The Pirates of Penzance will available on demand on via Stream Theatre from 23 December 2021 […]
Sasha Regan’s all-male H.M.S Pinafore to sail into Wilton’s Music Hall in 2022
Sasha Regan’s award-winning all-male company will welcome some new shipmates when they sail into Wilton’s Music Hall next spring with a new version of Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic masterpiece H.M.S Pinafore. Following on from the recent live theatre and streaming success of Regan’s critically-acclaimed re-imagining of another G&S favourite, The Pirates of Penzance, the company […]
HMS Pinafore – London Coliseum
HMS Pinafore continues at the London Coliseum until 11 December 2021. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Colourful costumes, bawdy jokes, silly songs, Les Dennis: oh, how we have missed panto season! That isn’t quite fair of course. Dennis has recently been praised for a string of RSC acting roles, proving himself […]
London premiere for Charles Court Opera’s Express G&S
Charles Court Opera has emerged from lockdown with the London premiere of musical murder mystery Express G&S and a UK tour of its acclaimed production of Iolanthe. Described as ‘the masters of G&S in small spaces’, the company will present its new spoof of the classic railway whodunnit at the newly configured, socially distanced Pleasance […]
Live-stream return for Sasha Regan’s The Pirates Of Penzance
Home-bound theatre-lovers who missed out on the recent streaming of the Palace Theatre debut of Sasha Regan’s award-winning all-male version of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance will get another chance to see the hit show this Easter. Recorded live on 13 December 2020, The Pirates of Penzance will return to Stream.Theatre from 29 […]
Book Review: D’Oyly Carte: Inside Out – Roberta Morrell
D’Oyly Carte: Inside Out – Roberta Morrell (Matador Books – ISBN: 978-1-83859-481-7) Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This is the second book by the delightful Roberta Morrell on her years with the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company and it is an absolutely enchanting read. The first book D’Oyly Carte: The Inside Story focused on […]
Book Review: Wild Card – Martin Milnes
WILD CARD – Martin Milnes (Paperback ZULEIKA: ISBN 9781916197725 – also Audiobooks) Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Martin Milnes was born in the wrong era – or at least that’s how it seemed. As a child he wore jazz-shoes to his junior school disco, expecting eight-year-olds to Mambo like the dancers […]
Gilbert and Sullivan Festival launches streaming service
With the 2020 International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival cancelled due to the Covid-19 crisis, the festival organisers have launched a new streaming service offering access to recordings of performances of the enduringly popular work of librettist W.S. Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan. Performances from the festival’s resident professional company, the National Gilbert & Sullivan Opera […]
New dance version of The Pirates of Penzance to debut in 2019
Gilbert and Sullivan’s much-loved The Pirates of Penzance will make its debut re-imagined as a major dance spectacular in the UK in 2019, 140 years after the comic opera was first performed. Presented by Bruce Robert Harris and Jack W. Bateman, New Level Productions and Julian Stoneman, the danced-through musical will be directed and choreographed […]
Book Review – Backdrop to a Legend: The Scenic Design of the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company
BACKDROP TO A LEGEND – The Scenic Design of the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company (Raymond Walker & David Skelly, private bublication – ISBN: 9780952994312) Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Every so often a publication comes along that absolutely blows your socks off – this is one of them. Anyone with any interest at […]
Sasha Regan’s All-Male The Mikado – Richmond Theatre
Sasha Regan’s All-Male The Mikado continues at Richmond Theatre until 27 May, then tours until 29 July. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ It must be 60 years since I last saw The Mikado but the traditional D’Oyly Carte version was nothing like this so it was just like stepping into an entirely new […]
Sasha Regan’s All Male H.M.S. Pinafore – exclusive images
Originally seen at the Union Theatre in 2009, Sasha Regan’s acclaimed all-male production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance has returned for a 2016 UK tour. Musical Theatre Review’s official photographer Roy Tan has taken these exclusive images. A classic musical comedy of mistaken identity, The Pirates of Penzance follows young Frederic, a child apprenticed to […]
Princess Ida – Finborough Theatre
Princess Ida continues at the Finborough Theatre, London until 18 April. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ This is only the fourth time I’ve seen Princess Ida in a lifetime of Gilbert and Sullivan-going which has included many dozens of productions of The Mikado, HMS Pinafore and so on. And it’s more than 20 years since the last professional London production. A […]
The Mikado – Charing Cross Theatre
The Mikado continues at the Charing Cross Theatre, London until 3 January 2015. Award-winning director Thom Southerland has eschewed the traditional staging of the ever popular Mikado and has, instead, opted to move Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta into the 1920s. His take is set in the Titipu Umbrella and Fan Factory, owned by The Mikado. […]
The Great British Musicals in Concert – London Hippodrome
The Great British Musicals in Concert was performed at the Matcham Room at the London Hippodrome. Who better to host an evening dedicated to the best of British musical theatre than Nicholas Parsons, himself a performer in some of the featured shows more than 50 years ago? “Do I know these shows?” he asked. “I was […]
