Follow-up show to an upcoming Huck Finn musical grapples with how to strike a balance between relating the true horror of slavery and telling the whole story.
Alan Rickman made wickedness delicious. Reviewing Rickman's breakout role as a scheming hedonist aristocrat in the play "Les Liaisons Dangereuses," Guardian newspaper critic Nicholas de Jongh likened the actor to "a cat who knows the way to the cream." Rickman, who died of cancer Thursday aged ...
While Ann Jenkins has taken roles in numerous Tokyo International Players productions during her 24-year involvement with the group, she is just as active behind the scenes.
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 ...
If art's purpose is to ask the relevant questions, then British-Bangladeshi dancer Akram Khan successfully interrogates humanity — and himself — with his latest production, "Desh."
Koki Mitani is far and away the nation's best-known dramatist. Although theater is quite a niche medium here, most people in Japan — whether male or female, young or not so young, Japanese or not — recognize his face, even if they couldn't name ...
