In “Despicable Me 3,” the Minions are escaping from security guards and find themselves onstage at a singing competition. What will get them out of this mess? Some Gilbert and Sullivan, it turns out.

All David Hyde Pierce has to do is step out on stage, and he gets applause, even before he launches into the idiotic tongue-twister from "The Pirates of Penzance": I am the very model of a modern ...

It’s off to the land of pirates — and you won’t even have to walk the plank — at Oakley Valley Arts Council’s latest production, “The Pirates of Penzance,” opening Monday in Howells Opera House.

Had Rupert Holmes’s career ended in the early ’80s, he would be most widely remembered for “(Escape) The Piña Colada Song,” a lovably hokey pop single that was his biggest hit as a singer/songwriter.

The show that is about to be staged at the Todd Haimes Theatre is not your grandma's The Pirates of Penzance. As evidenced by its new name, Pirates! The Penzance Musical is turning the classic Gilbert ...

Gilbert & Sullivan sticklers might need about 20 minutes to fall under the spell of Roundabout’s Pirates! The Penzance Musical, opening tonight on Broadway at the Todd Haimes Theatre, but for the rest ...

Earlier this week, Pirates! The Penzance Musical opened on Broadway, bringing back one of the OG patter songs of the the musical theate canon- "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General." In this ...

With practically no expression on his face, babbling away, all kinds of commotion around him, he's funny. I asked, "Why do you think 'less is more' can be funny?" "Well, I think so much of theater, ...