Keiko Miyata To Mark Departure From The New National Theatre, Tokyo, With Piece By Up-And-Coming Playwright
After eight years as artistic director for drama at the New National Theatre, Tokyo, Keiko Miyata,...
Read MoreNobuko Tanaka
K-Ballet Brings “Cleopatra” Back For Another Dance
Tetsuya Kumakawa speaks about his most recent project, Cleopatra, in a way that’s as grand as the...
Read More
Keishi Nagatsuka Navigates Cultural Differences In Bringing Play About Capital Punishment To Japan
For casual fans of film, the name Martin McDonagh only became familiar after the movie he wrote,...
Read More
Three Dancers Seek To Redefine The Contemporary Form Of Their Art In “Dan-su Series 3”
Contemporary dance seemed to enter the wider arts consciousness in Japan around the turn of the...
Read More
Shizuoka Stage Festival Aims To Engage Its Audiences The Old-Fashioned Way
This hasn’t been a great year for social media. Internet addiction has been a hot topic, as...
Read More
“Ballyturk” Delivers A Surreal Yet Exciting Challenge
When Akira Shirai first read the script for Ballyturk, he quickly understood why its creator,...
Read More
Force And Fragility Meet And Merge In “Dunas”
There are mutual squeals of delight when Belgian dance artist, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Spanish...
Read More
Dairakudakan’s “Unearthly” Butoh Meets A Tortured Russian tale
Following a January press conference in which the New National Theatre, Tokyo, announced that...
Read More
Chiaki Soma puts on a Not-So-Common Theater Festival
In the world of Japanese contemporary drama, the action often takes place offstage as well as on....
Read More
TPAM’s Magic Happens In Front Of And Behind The Curtain
Back in 1995, some of the movers and shakers of the domestic theater scene got together at various...
Read More
Change Is In The Air For New National Theater Tokyo In 2018
At the start of each year, the New National Theatre Tokyo holds a media event at which the...
Read More
Dramatist Oriza Hirata Has A Vision For Theatre
Travel around 150 km northwest from the hustle and bustle of Kyoto, and another, far more peaceful...
Read More
Jerome Bel and His Amateurs Test the Limits of Contemporary Dance in Saitama Show
Is the French choreographer Jerome Bel a trailblazer or an enfant terrible of the contemporary...
Read More
A Year Filled With Standing Ovations
While 2017 featured many great stage productions and performances, these were among the standouts:...
Read More
Japan’s Theater World Increasingly Shed Its Insularities In 2017
Never mind those North Korean missiles that provide politicians with heaven-sent pretexts to...
Read More
Ibsen’s “Peer Gynt” Gets A Cultural Twist When Director Yang Jung-ung Teams Up With Actor Kenji Urai
South Korean director Yang Jung-ung’s career has spanned several continents. From his theater...
Read More
Junpei Mizobata Plunges Headfirst Into The Absurdist World Of Harold Pinter
As the saying goes, “You can’t judge a book by its cover.” In the same way, if you thought the...
Read More
“One Green Bottle” Exploring Japanese And English Sensibilities
One Green Bottle is a new-ish work co-written by the renowned Japanese dramatist Hideki Noda and...
Read More
Wanton Desire Proves To Be Timeless And Borderless In Japanese Version Of “Les Liaisons Dangereuses”
The route that has brought Richard Twyman to Tokyo to direct an all-Japanese cast in a play based...
Read More
Festival/Tokyo Director Sachio Ichimura Looks To A New Generation
At the end of his speech in July announcing details of this year’s Festival/Tokyo running from...
Read MoreLike Us On Facebook
Download Our App
Featured Editors
Most Popular Posts
High Flying, Adored? When “Evita” Gets… 8th September 2017 
Going To The Theatre Could Be As Good For Your Heart… 16th October 2017 
How Butoh, The Japanese Dance Of Darkness, Helps Us… 7th January 2018 
Eurodram 2018 Honours 17th March 2018 
Nudity, Art and Political Violence in Brazil 14th September 2017 
In Conversation With Simon Stephens About Teaching… 12th August 2017 
Everyone’s a Dramaturg 26th August 2017
