When the call for auditions went out in November 2015, 1,346 boys sent in their head shots and resumes hoping to land what could be a life-changing role as the titular lead in a Japanese production of "Billy Elliot." The competition was fierce — around ...
Few Japanese will dispute that we are a nation of dedicated music fans and, though it may not seem like it at first, this goes for musicals, too. Shizuko Kasagi, widely revered as the "Queen of Boogie" was the first to perform at the reopened ...
La-la land: the mental state of someone who is not aware of what is really happening, and a nickname for the American entertainment industry centered on Los Angeles. These two meanings bleed into each other in director Damien Chazelle's multi-Oscar-nominated musical, "La La Land," ...
A powder horn that some experts believe was used by Alexander Hamilton goes up for auction Monday on what would have been his birthday. Hamilton, the nation's first Treasury secretary and one of the country's Founding Fathers, is now the focus of a blockbuster hip-hop ...
With a smile beaming from his face, Broadway legend Harold Prince enters the room I'm waiting in and cheerfully declares, "I'm not jet-lagged at all — they're just working me to death." Prince arrived in Tokyo only a few days earlier and is eager to ...
A recent court-themed musical staged in Tokyo was, to say the least, an audacious dig at the contentious state secrets law scheduled to take effect in December. Set several years after the law's passage last December, the musical, performed last week in Nakano Ward by ...
South Korean entertainment is excelling in a lot of disciplines, and stage performance is one of them. Now a groundbreaking action-drawing show, "Hero," will take its turn trying to impress Japanese audiences. "Hero" embarks on a monthlong run at the Roppongi Blue Theater in Tokyo ...
