Responses to the spread of the COVID-19 virus have varied widely from country to country and are changing from day to day. So, while Broadway shows in New York have shut down for at least a month, West End productions in London have been canceled until further notice.

In Japan’s theater world the situation has been somewhat mixed since Feb. 26, when Prime Minister Shinzo Abe first asked organizers of large public events to demonstrate self-restraint.

As a result, Kabuki-za and other kabuki theaters in the capital and elsewhere remain closed; the large, private Akasaka ACT Theater in Tokyo canceled programs until March 17; and at the capital’s newly rebuilt Parco Theater the first night of “Pizarro” was put back a week. Most public theaters — which receive public money — have also followed suit, along with leading companies such as K-ballet.