Suzuki Company of Toga (SCOT) Summer Season Puts Indonesian Theatre On The Map
This year marked Indonesia’s debut at SCOT Summer Season in Japan, as director Iswadi Pratama...
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Japanese Theatre: Take Your Pick of The Year’s Highlights
From soccer minnows Leicester City winning the English Premier League to “That Election” in the...
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Manga Musicals and Takarazuka Revue: A Model of Theatre in Episodes
The adaptation of Japanese manga into musical theatre productions represents an interesting...
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Takarazuka Revue: Japanese All-Female Musical Theater Troupe
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.
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Spirit Of Ninagawa And Shakespeare Strong In Takahiro Fujita’s Daring Take On “Romeo And Juliet”
Takahiro Fujita was really looking forward to the new year in 2016. He’d already been honored when...
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Invoking the Spirit
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.
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“Short-Term” Visitor To Japan Serves Up A Rare Shakespeare Treat After Only 20 Years
When Peter Goessner’s wife got a contract to teach at a university in the city of Kitakyushu,...
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Kyoto Experiment Autumn 2016
Kyoto Experiment, or the Kyoto International Performing Arts Festival, will be held for the...
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Festival/Tokyo Speaks With A Defiant Voice
Press conferences are usually upbeat affairs, but at the one held to herald Festival/Tokyo — a...
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Munby’s “Crucible” Speaks To Societies Built On Fear
“When the opportunity came to work at Theatre Cocoon in Tokyo, I was so excited about the great...
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Kabuki’s Bando Tamasaburo V Takes Kodo Drum Troupe In An Artistic New Direction With “Spiral”
To celebrate its 35th anniversary, the internationally renowned Kodo drumming troupe staged three...
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Kyôgen Comedies’ Embedded Dramaturgy: 13 Lessons for Theater Practitioners
Kyôgen (狂言) are short, stylized comedies performed between somber masked-dance noh (能) for over...
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Dance Icon Saburo Teshigawara’s “Magic Flute” Brings Abstract Notes To Mozart’s Final Gem
Since studying visual arts and sculpture before taking up ballet at the age of 20 in 1973, Saburo...
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“Dragon Quest” Show Pulls Its Audiences Into The Action
For gamers and lovers of sheer theatrical spectacle alike, the summer’s hottest ticket seems sure...
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Butoh For Kids Has Fun With “Birthday Suit” Tale
“Gloomy,” “eerie,” “vulgar,” “avant-garde” and “conceptual” are adjectives often used to describe...
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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...
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Jo Kanamori And Oriza Hirata Retell “La Bayadere” With A Dose Of Political Awareness
The atmosphere at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theater in St. Petersburg, Russia, must have been...
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“Tell Me” Lays Bare One Woman’s Quest
The first thing Yojiro Ichikawa said when we sat down for our recent interview in a Tokyo...
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World Was A Stage For Acclaimed Theater Director Yukio Ninagawa
Acclaimed stage director Yukio Ninagawa was a titan of global theater but his hand felt...
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Theater Festival’s Roots Dig Deep Into Shizuoka
In recent years, theater fans and artists here and abroad have increasingly been wakening up to...
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