Art for art’s sake gets its comeuppance
Written at the height of the movement’s popularity, it’s a sick burn in two delectable acts, making gleeful sport of Wilde, Whistler, Swinburne and other fancy-pants figures.
[...] all of it is decked out in Sullivan’s ingeniously catchy music.
The Lamplighters, the Bay Area’s repository of this tradition for more than half a century, brings “Patience” back to its stage with a double-cast production, conducted by David Möschler and directed by Barbara Heroux.