Chicago Theater Review: H.M.S. PINAFORE (Light Opera Works in Evanston)
SHIPSHAPE PRODUCTION TAKES SAIL Still subversive as it both condemns and confirms class snobbery, this smash hit from 1878 fuses Romeo and Juliet and Punch into a role-reversing romp where love levels some ranks. Rudy Hogenmiller's respectful revival, Light Opera Work's fourth production of H.M.S. Pinafore since 1981, aims at nothing more than fidelity to [...]