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Choreographer Shuji Onodera was given total artistic freedom to create his adaption of Guy de Maupassant’s “Boule de Suif” with a multicultural cast.

Festival/Tokyo, known for its focus on young artists and edgy productions, has shifted the annual festival's emphasis from live performances to online ones.

Director Silviu Purcarete reveals the murky and bizarre aspects of humanity in a modern adaptation of Shakespeare’s comedy about love and magic.

Shuttered venues and a lack of subsidies have added to dwindling audience numbers to create worry for performers.

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.