On a recent weeknight in midtown Manhattan, the Broadway actor Kelvin Moon Loh led a rehearsal of “The Mikado,” one of the most popular works by the nineteenth-century duo W. S. Gilbert and Arthur ...

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What's harmless fun, to you, is gross cultural insensitivity to me. What's constructive criticism, to me, is artistic policing to you. Battle stations, everyone, for the war of "The Mikado" — a ...

Described by critics as "scintillating," "exquisite," and "breathtaking," this version of the famous comic opera was a blockbuster hit at the world-renowned Stratford Festival. Cloaked in the guise of ...

When Topsy-Turvy was released in 1999, director Mike Leigh seemed like the last candidate to produce a biopic on Gilbert and Sullivan, given his career-long focus on intimately evoking the struggles ...

Even Gilbert and Sullivan has to be slimmed down to fit in the King's Head Theatre, and this guest production by Charles Court Opera relies on the nine principals to moonlight on choral duties and ...

In a theater season dominated by dark musicals like “Next to Normal” and “Sweeney Todd,” the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players’ production of the comic operetta “The Mikado” is a definite ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Liberty High School Chamber singers will host a trip to Japan — but no passports are needed. These young performers will present ...

In 1885, the librettist WS Gilbert parodied the arcane rules, petty hierarchies and crazily violent authorities of his time by transposing them to an imaginary old Japan. His Mikado worked for the ...