“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” Conjures Dark Fantasies
A Midsummer Night’s Dream has the makings of a fairy tale: a forest full of meddling fairies,...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 6th Nov 2020 | Japan, Review, Theatre and Art
A Midsummer Night’s Dream has the makings of a fairy tale: a forest full of meddling fairies,...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 22nd Oct 2020 | Interview, Japan, Theatre and Politics
Back in January, when English director Lindsay Posner visited Tokyo for preparatory meetings to...
Read MorePosted by The Japan Times | 20th Oct 2020 | Japan, News
Online streaming of videos of kabuki plays, including an adaptation of a manga and an animated...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 14th Oct 2020 | Festivals, Interview, Japan
Performing arts festivals and opportunities to enjoy live entertainment have been few and far...
Read MorePosted by Daily Sabah | 11th Aug 2020 | Japan, News, Theatre and Gender
The ancient Japanese art of geisha is now facing a crossroads that requires the centuries-old...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 8th Aug 2020 | Covid-19, Interview, Japan
This past week, health officials called for more than 800 theatergoers to be tested for COVID-19...
Read MorePosted by Kate Lovell | 5th Aug 2020 | Essay, Japan, Theatre and Dance, Theatre and Disability, Transmedia, United Kingdom
Digital dance piece tells the never-before heard stories of deaf survivors of the A-bombs dropped...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 24th Jul 2020 | Devised Theatre, Japan, News, Transmedia
As the new reality of daily life amid a global pandemic settles in, many people are getting...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 15th Jun 2020 | Covid-19, Japan, News, Transmedia
Troupes turn to telework in a bid to keep audiences entertained The performing arts are built on...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 10th Jun 2020 | Covid-19, Essay, Japan, News, Participatory Theatre
On April 3, Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC) announced the cancellation of this year’s...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 23rd Apr 2020 | Covid-19, Japan, News, Theatre and Politics
Responses to the spread of the COVID-19 virus have varied widely from country to country and are...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 27th Mar 2020 | Interview, Japan, Theatre and Politics
Ever since his Oscar-nominated Hollywood debut as Lord Katsumoto in 2003’s The Last Samurai, Ken...
Read MorePosted by Anadolu Agency | 27th Mar 2020 | Japan, Theatre and Dance, Theatre for Young Audiences, Turkey
Twenty-five-year-old Japanese Takasaki Taito attended folk dance courses organized by the...
Read MorePosted by Abigail Weil | 6th Mar 2020 | Design, Japan, New York, Review, Transcultural Collaborations, United States of America
Suicide Forest, written by and starring Haruna Lee is a trippy meditation on the extremes of...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 28th Feb 2020 | Interview, Japan, Theatre and Gender
With William Shakespeare’s iconic use of English lost in translation, bold and reimagined versions...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 24th Feb 2020 | Japan, News, Theatre and Age
In theater, as in daily life, it is possible to have too much of a good thing. Such was the case...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 9th Feb 2020 | Interview, Japan, Transcultural Collaborations
Haruki Murakami is probably Japan’s best-known living writer — a worldwide bestseller with novels...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 25th Jan 2020 | Collaborating Across Cultures, Japan, Review
Japanese theater gets off to a flying start in 2020 with a collaboration between leading British...
Read MorePosted by Maggie Ivanova | 12th Jan 2020 | Australia, Festivals, Japan, Review
Review: The Dark Master and Totes Adorbs ♥ Hurricane, OzAsia Festival, Adelaide, 22 October...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 7th Jan 2020 | Japan, Musical Theatre, News, Transcultural Collaborations
As the curtain falls on 2019’s theater scene in Japan, a continuing rise in the popularity of...
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