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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

They are the very model of a modern major opera. Albuquerque Little Theatre hoists the anchor for “Pirates of Penzance” on Thursday, July 17.

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, ...