Kyoto As A Stage For World Theatre – An Interview With Kyoto Experiment Program Director Yusuke Hashimoto
Kyoto Experiment is one of Japan’s major international theatre festivals, along with...
Read MorePosted by Ramona Taranu | 9th Aug 2018 | Festivals, Interview, Japan, Producing
Kyoto Experiment is one of Japan’s major international theatre festivals, along with...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 25th Jul 2018 | Essay, Japan
Based in mountainous Oita Prefecture in northeastern Kyushu, the privately owned and run Drum Tao...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 11th Jul 2018 | Directing, Japan, News, Playwriting
After eight years as artistic director for drama at the New National Theatre, Tokyo, Keiko Miyata,...
Read MorePosted by Géraldine D. Enjelvin | 1st Jul 2018 | Essay, Japan, Theatre and Art, Transcultural Collaborations
In a world where technological advancement seems to be at the forefront of almost everything, it...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 14th Jun 2018 | Japan, News, Theatre and Dance
Tetsuya Kumakawa speaks about his most recent project, Cleopatra, in a way that’s as grand as the...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 29th May 2018 | Adaptation, Japan, News, Theatre and Politics, Translation
For casual fans of film, the name Martin McDonagh only became familiar after the movie he wrote,...
Read MorePosted by Ramona Taranu | 26th May 2018 | Festivals, Japan, Review
World Theatre Festival Shizuoka is one of Japan’s three major annual performing arts festivals,...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 25th May 2018 | Japan, Review, Theatre and Art, Theatre and Dance
Contemporary dance seemed to enter the wider arts consciousness in Japan around the turn of the...
Read MorePosted by The Theatre Times | 28th Apr 2018 | Festivals, Japan, News, Transcultural Collaborations
World Theatre Festival Shizuoka 2018 Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC) will hold its annual...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 27th Apr 2018 | Festivals, Japan, News
This hasn’t been a great year for social media. Internet addiction has been a hot topic, as...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 19th Apr 2018 | Interview, Ireland, Japan, Translation
When Akira Shirai first read the script for Ballyturk, he quickly understood why its creator,...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 4th Apr 2018 | Belgium, Interview, Japan, Theatre and Dance, Transcultural Collaborations
There are mutual squeals of delight when Belgian dance artist, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Spanish...
Read MorePosted by Mara Valderrama | 29th Mar 2018 | Japan, Spain, Theatre and Opera, Transmedia
Hatsune Miku, the most famous non-human pop singer in the world, will visit Spain for the first...
Read MorePosted by Katherine Whatley | 24th Mar 2018 | Acting, Essay, Japan, Theatre and Gender
Noh performer Hisa Uzawa has spent her life devoted to an art form that—with its slow and steady...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 22nd Mar 2018 | Adaptation, Japan, News, Theatre and Dance
Following a January press conference in which the New National Theatre, Tokyo, announced that...
Read MorePosted by Krisztina Rosner | 11th Mar 2018 | Acting, Essay, Japan, Theatre and Science, Transmedia
Ten Years of Robot Theatre Directed by Oriza Hirata In Japan, the development of humanoid robots...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 6th Mar 2018 | Festivals, Interview, Japan
In the world of Japanese contemporary drama, the action often takes place offstage as well as on....
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 22nd Feb 2018 | Essay, Festivals, Japan
Back in 1995, some of the movers and shakers of the domestic theater scene got together at various...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 19th Feb 2018 | Japan, Management, News
At the start of each year, the New National Theatre Tokyo holds a media event at which the...
Read MorePosted by Alex Rogals | 10th Feb 2018 | Adaptation, Japan, Review, Transcultural Collaborations
New York City’s Japan Society closed out its 2017-18 Noh-Now series this past January with...
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