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Kanjuro Kiritake says the pandemic has left him worrying for the future of his art form.

Director Lindsay Posner hopes his staging of “Twelve Angry Men” in Tokyo will make audiences assess how their attitudes affect their perceptions.

Dramatist Oriza Hirata’s dream of holding Japan’s version of the Avignon Festival is becoming a reality with a two-week arts fete starting on Sept. 9.

Online streaming of videos of kabuki plays, including an adaptation of a manga and an animated film by Oscar-winning Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki, began on Wednesday amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. Shochiku Co., the operator of the Kabukiza Theatre and producer of kabuki performances, is ...

Two dramatists have opposing views on the theater world’s approach to dealing with the pandemic.

Theater companies are finding new ways to continue live shows for audiences amid the COVID-19 pandemic by performing out of trucks or turning to virtual reality.

Comic Saku Yanagawa is making a name for himself in the U.S., but with racist hecklers and awkward Zoom gigs, he’s facing his toughest crowds yet.

In publishing a composite image of a socially-distanced theater crowd, the hall painted a bleak image of the future of stage in Japan.

By taking a key arts festival online, Satoshi Miyagi is finding ways to ensure that theater survives the pandemic.

Even in the age of COVID-19, the show must go on, and go on it will. Theater lovers suffering from withdrawal symptoms as a result of cancellations prompted by the coronavirus will be relieved to learn that a number of companies are busily formulating plans ...

With the curtains remaining closed at theaters across Japan, some acting troupes are adopting new methods of reaching their audiences.