Dramatist Speaks Up For The Downtrodden And New Thinking In Japan
Fifty-three-year-old Oriza Hirata unexpectedly arrived early for our 9 a.m. interview in a Tokyo...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 21st Jun 2016 | Interview, Japan, Management
Fifty-three-year-old Oriza Hirata unexpectedly arrived early for our 9 a.m. interview in a Tokyo...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 16th Jun 2016 | Essay, Japan, Theatre and Dance
The atmosphere at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theater in St. Petersburg, Russia, must have been...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 24th May 2016 | Interview, Japan, Musical Theatre
The first thing Yojiro Ichikawa said when we sat down for our recent interview in a Tokyo...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 13th May 2016 | Directing, Essay, Japan
Acclaimed stage director Yukio Ninagawa was a titan of global theater but his hand felt...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 28th Apr 2016 | Festivals, Japan, News
In recent years, theater fans and artists here and abroad have increasingly been wakening up to...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 6th Apr 2016 | Directing, Interview, Japan, Management
He doesn’t officially become Kanagawa Arts Theatre’s artistic director until April 1, but Akira...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 27th Feb 2016 | Adaptation, Japan, Review
In 2014, rising playwright and director Kenichi Tani translated Harold Pinter’s Old Times for an...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 25th Feb 2016 | Japan, Playwriting, Review
“At last, the masterpiece Yakiniku Dragon (Korean Barbecue Dragon) is going to be staged again!”...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 25th Jan 2016 | Japan, Review, Theatre and Dance
“Many people have a preconception about butoh — that it is performed by dancers whose bodies...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 16th Jan 2016 | Acting, Japan, Review
Tokyo was bathed in warm sunshine in the run-up to 2016, and when Takehiro Hira meets me at a...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 29th Dec 2014 | Japan, News, South Korea
Tokyo has long been the center of Japan’s theatre world, but in 2014, that began to change,...
Read MorePosted by Marcina Zaccaria | 25th Sep 2014 | Australia, Festivals, Japan, New York, News, United States of America
In 2014, Marcina Zaccaria wrote about The Lincoln Center Festival, including productions of...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 12th Sep 2013 | Japan, Review, Russia, Transcultural Collaborations
“I have rarely seen a great production of any Chekhov play in Japan. Sometimes, I’ve even wanted...
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