50th Anniversary Gala

October 1, 2026

Chez Zee • Austin

Join us as Gilbert & Sullivan Austin celebrates 50 years of music, theatre, and community in Central Texas. This anniversary celebration will look back on five decades of grand productions, concerts, educational outreach, and support for young musicians. The evening will also feature excerpts from Ken Ludwig’s Sullivan & Gilbert, a comedy that imagines the famous collaborators reuniting to prepare a command performance for Queen Victoria.

Ken Ludwig’s Sullivan & Gilbert

October 15 - 18, 2026

In cooperation with Austin Playhouse.

Set backstage at London’s Savoy Theatre in 1890, Ken Ludwig’s Sullivan & Gilbert follows the famous theatrical partners as they scramble to prepare a special performance for Queen Victoria. Their relationship is already strained, Sullivan has missed rehearsals because of illness, and his romance with a young singer has earned Gilbert’s disapproval, and the Queen’s eager but hopelessly untalented son has joined the company. Featuring more than 15 favorites from The Mikado, The Pirates of Penzance, H.M.S. Pinafore and other Gilbert and Sullivan operas.

Coily Darte’s Less Miserable — FREE!

January 10, 2027

Annual Meeting featuring G&S “improbable new musical”

Our Annual Meeting features a free performance of Susan Ellerby’s Gilbert and Sullivan’s Improbable New Musical: Less Miserable, which premiered at the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In the afterlife, Gilbert boasts to Sullivan that, as the fathers of modern musical theatre, they created the plots behind nearly every musical that followed. Sullivan challenges him to prove it by retelling Les Misérables using only Gilbert and Sullivan songs. Gilbert accepts with one condition: he gets to add a few twists and give the story an implausibly happy ending in which nobody dies. Less Miserable transforms the familiar epic into a fast-paced, 55-minute Gilbertian comedy featuring songs from across the Gilbert and Sullivan canon.

Tea With Princess Ida — FREE!

March 6, 2027

Pre-Grand Production Community Event

Join us for afternoon tea and an introduction to Princess Ida, Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic opera about a princess who rejects an arranged marriage and founds a university for women at Castle Adamant. When her intended husband, Prince Hilarion, arrives with two friends, the three disguise themselves as women and slip inside the university. Princess Ida was first inspired by Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s narrative poem The Princess. At this free community event, meet members of the cast and creative team, discover more about the opera and GSA’s upcoming summer production, and enjoy afternoon tea, cake, conversation, and more!

Princess Ida

June 11 - 20, 2027

2027 Summer Grand Production

Princess Ida has rejected the marriage arranged for her in infancy and founded Castle Adamant, a university devoted to women’s education and independence. Determined to win her hand, Prince Hilarion and two friends disguise themselves as women and enter the university, setting off a comic clash over society’s deeply rooted expectations of women and men. Gilbert’s witty libretto and Sullivan’s elaborate score explore Victorian ideas about marriage, education, gender and power.

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