An Asian-American Reimagining of Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Mikado"
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 Sullivan. The two-act comic operetta, set in Edo-era Japan, is a satire of Victorian culture masquerading as a convoluted and kitschy love story. In the predominantly white world of American and British theatre, it…