It’s not every play where the audience can be guests at an Indian wedding, but that experience would be particularly rare at a Gilbert & Sullivan show. So Lyric Theatre of San Jose is offering a ...

Knickerbocker Holiday, by Kurt Weill (music) and Maxwell Anderson (book and lyrics) sends up the high stupidity, low cunning and deep, brazen corruption of government in the early American Dutch ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. GORHAM — “In the Underworld,” a darkly comic operetta by Germaine Tillion ...

Growing up in central Ohio in the 1990s and early 2000s, Adam Cioffari remembers attending operetta after operetta. The genre — distinct from traditional operas for its lighter music and storylines — ...

The Brigham Young University School of Music will present Johann Strauss' classic Viennese operetta "Die Fledermaus" ("The Bat") Oct. 21-28 at 7:30 p.m. in the de Jong Concert Hall. Tickets are $18 or ...

OSWEGO, N.Y. — During World War II, nearly 1,000 Jewish refugees who had escaped the Holocaust were brought to the United States and given safe haven at an Army post in Upstate New York. Fearing that ...

If American theater people know Joseph Rumshinsky (1881–1956) at all, it’s because his last name appears on the list of fifty Russian and East European composers in the Ira Gershwin–Kurt Weill patter ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Operetta: for some serious music-lovers it’s long been a term of dismissal – if not actual abuse – and today it ...