Building a Better Mikado
For a while I’ve been grappling with how I’d deal with The Mikado the next time I had to review it.
It’s Greatly to Their Credit
Lamplighters polishes its Pinafore so carefully that now it is the operetta show to see.
Read my review in the San Jose Mercury News. Read more
Words, Words, Words to the Wise
Inspired by the fact that Lamplighters Music Theatre will soon be performing W.S. Gilbert’s excellent but neglected comedy Engaged, which I saw some years back when Shakespeare Santa Cruz did it, I took the opportunity to re-read the collection Plays by W.S. Gilbert. In Gilbert’s straight plays we see the same impish humor that characterizes his much more popular operettas with Sir Arthur Sullivan, only without all that delightful music to distract from it.
