Arthur Sullivan – San Diego Story

Clever and Ridiculous Antics Collide in The Roustabouts’ Hilarious ‘Savoyard Murders’

By David Dixon | September 17, 2023 |

David McBean and Phil Johnson (Photos courtesy of Ken Jacques.).

Earlier this year, the Artistic Director of The Roustabouts Theatre Co., Phil Johnson, starred in one of the most grim, tragic and intense satires of the year, gUnTOPIA. Johnson clearly has range, because he is now co-directing and starring in one of the silliest and funniest plays of the year, >The Savoyrard Murders.

Gilbert and Sullivan and ‘Pirates’ Finally Catch Up with San Diego Opera

By Ken Herman | October 15, 2017 |

“The Pirates of Penzance,” San Diego Opera’s first ever Gilbert and Sullivan opera, arrived at Civic Theatre Saturday (October 14)—a kinetic, splashy, gift-wrapped production that left no humorous stone unturned . . .