Above: A Von Karman vortex street downwind of the Canary Island chain in the eastern Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa on Feb. 27, 2015. Image credit: NASA Worldview. Editor's note ...

2 hours and 15 minutes, including one intermission. Gilbert & Sullivan’s pirate ship docks in New Orleans in this jazzy-bluesy vision of the crowd-pleasing classic, in an outrageously clever ...

Performances begin promptly at the advertised curtain time. Latecomers will be held in the lobby and seated at the discretion of management.