Search Results: The Mikado

Tired of seeing the Mikado done in yellowface, the Vortex Rep and Generic Ensemble Company in Austin is staging a production of The Mikado: Reclaimed. The show features an almost entirely Asian American cast. The Austin Chronicle reports the show attempts to take what's good about the Gilbert & Sullivan...

The cancellation of the scheduled New Year's week run of The Mikado following an uproar over yellowface casting and accusations of racism  has angered many fans of Gilbert & Sullivan. The New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players made the announcement that it was pulling the play from its season on...

In a stunning but welcomed reversal, the New York Gilbert & Sullivan Society has announced it is cancelling its planned production of The Mikado. The announcement of the planned one week run at New York University's Skirball Center for the Performing Arts drew a swift angry reaction from the Asian...

Gilbert & Sullivan are to comic opera what Barnum & Bailey are to the circus. There's no denying G & S's success with such shows as The Pirates of Penzance and H.M.S Pinafore. But success does not equal infallibility. The Mikado while intended as a satire of English bureaucracy doesn't hold up...

The recent Seattle Gilbert and Sullivan Society production of Mikado was largely blasted by the Asian American community, but as Minnesota's Mu Performing Arts has shown, it's possible to present the Mikado without using white actors in yellowface and portraying Asians as exotic Orientals. Skylark Opera had approached Mu Performing...

It's been a busy week in the news for Asian American students on campuses across the country. The University of Southern California has announced the creation of a dorm theme floor for Asian Pacific Islander Desi Americans, while at cross town rival UCLA an interim director for the Asian American...

by Ming Peiffer Nearly four years ago, as a fresh face on New York's cultural and theatrical scene, I attended the first meeting of the Asian American Performer's Action Coalition at Fordham University with over 500 people, Asians and non-Asians, to discuss the severe lack of representation in both quantity and...

  http://player.ooyala.com/iframe.js#ec=R1cmlldTqGhGungHYa5KVioIwZglDjh6&pbid=717e07edd27f4e34b5289ab4b1556c56 Just a year after a Mikado controversy in Seattle erupted, a similar one is steaming in Denver. KDVR reports this weekend's opening of the Mikado does not feature a single Asian American cast member. “It’s what Asian Americans call yellow face. It’s disrespectfully showing Asians and not even hiring Asians to...

Hundreds of people attended a forum held in response to the uproar over the Seattle Gilbert & Sullivan Society production of The Mikado Monday night. Sharon Chang sitting in the audience was driven to tears, still carrying the hurt caused not only by the production, but by the tone &...

The controversial production of The Mikado in Seattle may have closed, but the controversy hasn't died down.  NW Asian Weekly reports that Seattle's Gilbert & Sullivan Society which recently staged The Mikado has agreed to take part in a town hall about the controversial next Monday, August 18 “Art plays a...

The Seattle Repertory Theatre has announced it will be holding a forum to discuss race, art and cultural representation in light of the recent controversy over the all white casting of the Mikado by Seattle's Gilbert & Sullivan Society. The play includes 40 Japanese characters, all played by...

According to Seattle's own website, the city is 13.7 percent Asian American Pacific Islander. In all, nearly 77,000 AAPIs live in Seattle. Apparently there's not an actor among them. Sharon Chan in the Seattle Times reports the Seattle Gilbert & Sullivan Society is performing a comedic interpretation  of  The Mikado in which...

By Raymond Douglas Chong Historians, building preservationists and members of the Japanese American community watched in disbelief last month as crews dismantled one of the last remnants of Portland's Japantown. The Yamashita Hotel may be gone, but the Japanese American Museum of Oregon and Architectural Heritage Center is doing...

By Jana Monji, AsAmNews Arts & Culture Writer After a long weekend avoiding movies and, instead, focusing on the revival of San Diego Comic-Con (Special Edition), I slipped into a screening of Licorice Pizza to verify rumors of casual racism. The film has nothing to do with pizza, or the...

A 14-year old just could not remain silent when she heard the theatre program she had been a part of was performing The Hot Mikado, the 1939 adaptation from David Bell based on Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado. The teenager who is identified only as Hannah's wrote a letter...

What seems so obvious to many Asian Americans isn't so for some working in the entertainment industry. From the Seattle's Gilbert & Sullivan Society production of The Mikado to episodes last season in both How I Met Your Mother and Saturday Night Live, producers have failed to show any understanding...

By David Hosley A California State Assembly hearing may breathe new life to the lost Japantown in Sacramento and other communities cut off by freeways and redevelopment. The session at 1 p.m., chaired by Assembly member David Alvarez (D-San Diego), will explore the impact of freeway construction in California and how...