All Shizuoka’s a Stage for SPAC’s Theater Festival in Japan
At a recent news conference, Satoshi Miyagi, the artistic director of Shizuoka Performing Arts...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 30th Apr 2017 | Festivals, Japan
At a recent news conference, Satoshi Miyagi, the artistic director of Shizuoka Performing Arts...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 3rd Apr 2017 | Japan, Musical Theatre
When Adam Cooper launched into the first verse of Singin’ in the Rain on the stage of Tokyu...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 1st Apr 2017 | Japan, Transcultural Collaborations
John Caird is widely known as the co-director with fellow Englishman Trevor Nunn of Les...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 24th Mar 2017 | Design, Japan
Japanese audiences will soon join those in Holland as the only people in the world with access to...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 23rd Feb 2017 | Japan, Transmedia
You won’t be alone if you’ve never heard of the Tokyo-based International Centre for Theatre Arts,...
Read MorePosted by Alex Rogals | 11th Feb 2017 | Japan
Today, if you bring up the topic of the traditional Japanese comedic performing art, kyōgen, chances are the conversation you will have will revolve around either the activities of the professional Ōkura (大蔵) or Izumi (和泉)...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 6th Feb 2017 | Japan
“When I was studying English literature at the University of Tokyo, even though I had no theater...
Read MorePosted by Ramona Taranu | 28th Jan 2017 | Japan, Review
Current Location (Genzaichi in Japanese), written and directed by Okada Toshiki, founder of the...
Read MorePosted by Sara Jansen | 20th Jan 2017 | Essay, Japan, Playwriting
In May 2016, Japanese writer and director Toshiki Okada presented his latest production, Time’s...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 15th Jan 2017 | Adaptation, Japan, News, Theatre and Age
At the age of 91, Saitama resident Izumi Noguchi is speaking at his first press conference — at...
Read MorePosted by Caranissa Djatmiko | 10th Jan 2017 | Indonesia, Japan, Review
This year marked Indonesia’s debut at SCOT Summer Season in Japan, as director Iswadi Pratama...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 31st Dec 2016 | Adaptation, Japan, News
From soccer minnows Leicester City winning the English Premier League to “That Election” in the...
Read MorePosted by Armando Rotondi | 19th Dec 2016 | Adaptation, Essay, Japan, Musical Theatre
The adaptation of Japanese manga into musical theatre productions represents an interesting...
Read MorePosted by Lauren Deutsch | 7th Dec 2016 | Essay, Japan, Musical Theatre, Theatre and Gender
Nothing’s clear-cut at Japan’s Takarazuka Revue, arguably one of the world’s largest all-female musical theatre groups. The women who portray male roles in the Revue’s repertoire must maintain a semblance of “maleness” off-stage as well, the “off” boundaries being far away from the theatre environs.
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 22nd Nov 2016 | Interview, Japan, Theatre and Gender
Takahiro Fujita was really looking forward to the new year in 2016. He’d already been honored when...
Read MorePosted by Marcina Zaccaria | 18th Nov 2016 | Japan, New York, News, Theatre and Opera, United States of America
As we challenge the concept of myth and appreciate forms of presentation, “Sounds to Summon the Japanese Gods” is like a refreshment of the spirit.
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 25th Oct 2016 | Directing, Interview, Japan
When Peter Goessner’s wife got a contract to teach at a university in the city of Kitakyushu,...
Read MoreKyoto Experiment, or the Kyoto International Performing Arts Festival, will be held for the...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 6th Oct 2016 | Festivals, Japan, News
Press conferences are usually upbeat affairs, but at the one held to herald Festival/Tokyo — a...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 27th Sep 2016 | Interview, Japan, Review, Theatre and Politics
“When the opportunity came to work at Theatre Cocoon in Tokyo, I was so excited about the great...
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