Drama and exhibition portray the struggles and successes of Japanese women who moved to the U.K.
The stories document the interviewees' changing relationships with both Britain and Japan and unveil the shifting views of Japan in Britain over many decades.
'My Neighbor Totoro' to be adapted into stage play in Britain
The stage adaptation will be the first of its kind for the film, and will premiere on Oct. 8 at London's Barbican Centre and run until Jan. 21.
'Blood Brothers' tells a tangled tale of nature versus nurture
Actors Hayato Kakizawa and Eiji Wentz play twins whose vastly different social circumstances result in tragedy in the all-Japanese version of Willy Russell's West End hit musical.
Yuriko, keeper of Martha Graham’s flame, is dead at 102
A choreographer and dancer, she was associated with Graham for more than 50 years, and founded and directed the Martha Graham Ensemble, a student company.
Theater Commons Tokyo rethinks the 'voices' of performing arts in the COVID era
The festival examines radically different ways of creating and experiencing theater in the context of the pandemic, while also challenging the very idea of what theater can be.
Saitama Gold Theater players take their final bow after 15 years
The theater troupe, founded in 2006 by Yukio Ninagawa with a cast of actors aged 55 and over, will bid farewell with Shogo Ota’s nonverbal 1981 masterpiece, “Mizu no Eki.”
Kabuki actor and national treasure Nakamura Kichiemon dies at 77
A native of Tokyo, the actor became a member of the Japan Art Academy in 2002 and was recognized as a Person of Cultural Merit in 2017.
Broadway legend Stephen Sondheim, whose work transformed musical theater, dead at 91
Sondheim's quick-witted lyrics made audiences sit up and listen in the 1950s, while his ground-breaking shows in the 70s and 80s thrust the American musical into the modern era.
‘The Doctor’ diagnoses society’s afflictions
Veteran actress Shinobu Otake takes on the role of Dr. Ruth Wolff, a Jewish physician, and tackles modern ills in a Japanese production of Robert Icke's latest work.
New opera ‘Yuzuru’ cautions against the dangers of capitalism
For his first foray into opera, dramatist Toshiki Okada is modernizing a Japanese classic, centering it on "the damaging influence of capitalism" instead of a tragic love story.
Rena Matsui tackles Shakespeare in an all-female 'Julius Caesar'
The former idol-pop star takes on the role of Mark Antony in a version of Shakespeare's tragedy that focuses on the tense disputes that arose around Julius Caesar's assassination.
Cameron Mackintosh's all-Japanese 'Oliver!' will have you asking for more
"You’ll leave the theater with a smile on your face and joy in your heart," says theater titan Cameron Mackintosh of his latest production.
