Haruna Lee’s “Suicide Forest”
Suicide Forest, written by and starring Haruna Lee is a trippy meditation on the extremes of...
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Japan
Updating “Romeo and Juliet” in a Bid to Fight Prejudice in Japan
With William Shakespeare’s iconic use of English lost in translation, bold and reimagined versions...
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The Art of Condensing Shakespeare’s Oeuvre
In theater, as in daily life, it is possible to have too much of a good thing. Such was the case...
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Bringing Haruki Murakami’s “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle” to Japan’s Stages
Haruki Murakami is probably Japan’s best-known living writer — a worldwide bestseller with novels...
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“Fortune” Updates Faust’s Devilish Deal
Japanese theater gets off to a flying start in 2020 with a collaboration between leading British...
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Kitchen Aromas and Angels with Water Guns: Japanese Visual Storytelling Comes Alive at OzAsia
Review: The Dark Master and Totes Adorbs ♥ Hurricane, OzAsia Festival, Adelaide, 22 October...
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The Year That Musicals took on Japanese Stages
As the curtain falls on 2019’s theater scene in Japan, a continuing rise in the popularity of...
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Bringing a Greek Tragedy to 21st-Century Japan
What is it about stories from the ancient world that attracts contemporary dramatists? One person...
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“Dr. Hoffmann’s Sanatorium”: Delving Deep into the Weird World of Kafka
The starting point for Dr. Hoffmann’s Sanatorium was, according to the play’s Japanese creator,...
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Capitalizing on the Pull of Experimental Japanese Theatre
Shuntaro Matsubara’s first contact with live theatre was in 2014, when he saw a production of...
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Tadashi Suzuki’s “Cyrano de Bergerac”: East and West Under the Umbrella
This year is a special one for the Theatre Olympics. For in it’s touring, it is comprised of two...
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Taking Classic Musical “West Side Story” to New Heights.
Back in 1961, Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins’ Hollywood film West Side Story became something of a...
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“A Night At The Kabuki”: Giving a Classic Love Story the Queen Treatment
The title of Hideki Noda’s new play is Q: A Night At The Kabuki. The “Q” refers to British rock...
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An Original Tokyo Musical Destined For Bigger Things
Disturbance is an original musical, making its world premiere in Tokyo this month. We spoke with...
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Aichi Triennale 2019: Political Art, Censorship, and Democracy
The sudden Aug. 3 closure of After “Freedom of Expression?” — a multi-artist exhibit...
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Building Bridges To Bangkok Through Stage
Never at risk of being run of the mill, Chelfitsch — which took its name from a baby’s...
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Oriza Hirata’s “In the Heart of a Forest”: Mastering Multilingual Performance
Tokyo’s cozy 60-odd-seat Komaba Agora Theater isn’t perhaps where you would expect a cutting-edge...
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Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot” Is Brought into the Reiwa Era
Why are thespians the world over so drawn to Waiting for Godot, that for many older actors playing...
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Translating Shakespeare
Translation of Shakespeare’s works is almost as old as Shakespeare himself; the first German...
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It’s Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” But Not As You Know It
With praise for his Hamlet with the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2016 still ringing in his ears —...
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