“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...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 21st Nov 2017 | Collaborating Across Cultures, Japan, Review, United Kingdom
One Green Bottle is a new-ish work co-written by the renowned Japanese dramatist Hideki Noda and...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 24th Oct 2017 | Directing, Japan, Review
The route that has brought Richard Twyman to Tokyo to direct an all-Japanese cast in a play based...
Read MorePosted by Wan-Jung Wang | 20th Oct 2017 | Asia, Books, Design, Japan
There are many theatre lighting design textbooks in the world; however, few female Asian lighting...
Read MorePosted by William Peterson | 19th Oct 2017 | Japan, Review
The darkness of the human condition, where people are enslaved by their own desires in a kind of...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 18th Oct 2017 | Festivals, Japan
At the end of his speech in July announcing details of this year’s Festival/Tokyo running from...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 24th Sep 2017 | Japan, Management
As I turned the pages of a free magazine in London this summer, a picture of a beaming woman...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 13th Sep 2017 | Japan, Musical Theatre
“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.” In those few words the Scottish...
Read MorePosted by Zolima Citymag | 23rd Aug 2017 | France, Japan, Theatre for Young Audiences, Transcultural Collaborations
Why We Recommend it Using pioneering technology and fun choreography, this multimedia dance show...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 11th Aug 2017 | Argentina, Immersive Theatre, Japan, Transcultural Collaborations, Transmedia
Since Argentinian physical theater troupe Fuerza Bruta burst onto the scene in Buenos Aires in...
Read MorePosted by Yana Meerzon | 23rd Jul 2017 | Adaptation, Festivals, Japan
Antigone by Sophocles, directed by Satoshi Miyagi; music by Hiroko Tanakawa; scenography by...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 19th Jul 2017 | Adaptation, Festivals, Japan
The government’s Cool Japan initiative may be focused on spreading anime around the world, but...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 4th Jul 2017 | Japan, Producing
The neighborhood surrounding Yurakucho Station isn’t exactly starved for things to do. The Ginza...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 4th Jun 2017 | Adaptation, Japan, Theatre and Dance
“Not everything can be explained in words. Everyone draws a different nuance from the word ‘love,’...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 21st May 2017 | Directing, Japan
At 37, director Shuntaro Fujita says he’s just hitting his prime. “Many people say they liked...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 19th May 2017 | Japan, Playwriting
On May 12 last year, theater fans all over the world began mourning the death of one of Japan’s...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 6th May 2017 | Japan
The old never give the young an easy time. “They think they know everything,” “They’re lazy” — the...
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...
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