Satoshi Miyagi Returns To The Japan Society With “Mugen Noh Othello”
New York City’s Japan Society closed out its 2017-18 Noh-Now series this past January with...
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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...
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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...
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A Year Filled With Standing Ovations
While 2017 featured many great stage productions and performances, these were among the standouts:...
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How Butoh, The Japanese Dance Of Darkness, Helps Us Experience Compassion In A Suffering World
Butoh is now being taught to Zen students, prisoners, and others as a way to acknowledge difficult...
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Japan’s Theater World Increasingly Shed Its Insularities In 2017
Never mind those North Korean missiles that provide politicians with heaven-sent pretexts to...
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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...
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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...
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“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...
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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...
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“Awareness Of Light:” Uncovering The Magic Of Light Behind The Curtain From An Asian Female Lighting Design Perspective
There are many theatre lighting design textbooks in the world; however, few female Asian lighting...
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Kuro Tanino’s “The Dark Inn” Illustrates Our Inability To Let Go Of Our Desires
The darkness of the human condition, where people are enslaved by their own desires in a kind of...
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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...
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Theaters In Japan Are Looking At Longer Runs For Their Productions
As I turned the pages of a free magazine in London this summer, a picture of a beaming woman...
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Billy Harrigan Tighe Brings Life to The Man Behind Peter Pan in The Play “Finding Neverland”
“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.” In those few words the Scottish...
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“Between Man And Machine:” Biana Li’s Robotic Dance Show For Kids
Why We Recommend it Using pioneering technology and fun choreography, this multimedia dance show...
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Fuerza Bruta Re-Interprets a Night Out at The Theater
Since Argentinian physical theater troupe Fuerza Bruta burst onto the scene in Buenos Aires in...
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Avignon: Symphonies of Pain Part 3 – Satoshi Miyagi’s “Antigone”
Antigone by Sophocles, directed by Satoshi Miyagi; music by Hiroko Tanakawa; scenography by...
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Satoshi Miyagi Makes History on a Stage in France with “Antigone”
The government’s Cool Japan initiative may be focused on spreading anime around the world, but...
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Alternative Theatre Aims To Create A New Type Of Tourist Attraction In Tokyo
The neighborhood surrounding Yurakucho Station isn’t exactly starved for things to do. The Ginza...
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