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• Contemporary kabuki “Zatoichi” Feb. 4–20 (30/10/16)
• Onscreen live theatre “Branagh Theatre Live” From Nov. 4 (30/10/16)
• Stage Reading of Tomohiro Maekawa’s “The Sun” (27/11/16)
• The 5th Akasaka Dai (great) – Kabuki (11/01/17)
• “Daikon (Radish) – Singular Godot” is a firm favourite with Japanese audiences (14/03/17)
• Keralino Sandrovich sweeps Japan’s major drama awards for 2016 (30/03/17)
• Kinoshita Kabuki presents a rare full-length, 6 hour “Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan” (25/05/17)
• Chari-T project presents a new play about the new conspiracy law (26/05/17)
• The musical entertainment “Matsurowanu Tami” is running at the Za Koenji (29/05/17)
• Yuh Kamiki will stage his acclaimed solo work “Momotaro” in Seattle on June 10 (30/05/17)
• Finding the drama without words — Company Derashinera (31/05/17)
• Teshigawara’s intriguing “Petrouchka” opens June 15th (08/06/17)
• PARCO to present a biographical play about Canadian novelist Nelly Arcan in November (19/06/17)
• A symposium on Samuel Beckett — and “Godot” — at Theater X (Kai) in Ryogoku, Tokyo (26/06/17)
• “Utamaro” musical a great success in Washington D.C. (04/07/17)
• Finally opened Japanese “Billy Elliot” (21/07/17)
• Standing ovation on the premiere night of SPAC’s “Antigone” at the Avignon Festival (21/07/17)
• Interview with Ken Watanabe (17/04/18)
• Review of ‘Nihon Bungaku Seisuishi’ (The Rise and Fall of Japanese Literature) (24/06/18)
• Festival/Tokyo director Sachio Ichimura looks to a new generation (29/07/18)
• What can we see from SPAC’s World Theatre Festival (05/06/20)
• What has the globe trotting director Kuro Tanino done during his self-isolation period? (08/06/20)
• KAAT online reading program: “Miren no Yurei to Kaibutsu” (“Unfulfilled Ghost and Monster”) (11/06/20)
• Yudai Kamisato will participate in Theaterformen online (15/06/20)
• New attempt of putting theatre in Japan (14/07/20)
• How two young dramatists are facing up to covid-19 (17/07/20)
• How the Kyogen star Mansai Nomura spent his lockdown time (19/07/20)
• New video work from K-ballet company (14/08/20)
• Toyooka Theater Festival kicked off in Hyogo (10/09/20)
• ‘Twelve Angry Men’ in Tokyo, via London (03/10/20)
• “Dark Master” up close and virtually personal (15/10/20)
• Purcarete casts dark light on Noda’s “Midsummer Night” (15/10/20)
• Festival/Tokyo finds new ways to keep going (23/10/20)
• Onodera’s “Knife” cuts through pandemic problems (19/11/20)
• Top-notch theatre views on Covid-19 and after (25/11/20)
• What’s to become of theatre festivals in the future? (01/12/20)
• A view of Japanese theater in 2021 (31/01/21)
• TPAM 2021 to show “Fukushima Trilogy” — and stream it with English subtitles (03/02/21)
• ‘Oslo’ reveals secret Mid East peace move (11/02/21)
• Musician Yabuhara Kengyo pays the price for disharmony (18/02/21)
• The Artistic Director of KAAT, Nagatsuka speaks about his plan (06/04/21)
• Kuro Tanino talks about “Rainbow Town” — with citizen actors. (06/06/21)
• Israel Galvan defies the pandemic with Japan world-premiere flamenco and more (18/06/21)
• Toshiki Okada says Noh to Olympics and nuclear power (19/06/21)
• First-ever all-Asian “Mahabharata” coming to Tokyo (05/08/21)
• Butoh dancer Kentaro Kujirai portrays his roots in a new solo work (18/08/21)
• A father and son star in Tokyo’s ‘The Son’ (26/08/21)
• ‘Kabuki detective’ Kinoshita explores Edo stories (05/09/21)
• SPAC announces upcoming programs through March 2022 (1) (23/09/21)
• SPAC announces upcoming programs through March 2022 (2) (23/09/21)
• Sir Cameron Mackintosh interview: Oliver! comes to Tokyo is a Dream come true (09/10/21)
• All-female ‘Caesar’ get to the points (18/10/21)
• Toshiki Okada weaves politics into his opera debut (30/10/21)
• Body politic turns toxic in quick-fire ‘The Doctor’ (13/11/21)
• Final Curtain for Ninagwa’s Gold Theatre (23/12/21)
• Kudo returns with his cutting-edge classic (03/01/22)
• Blood Brothers weighs nature, and nurture … and fate (06/04/22)
• Double-staging debut for Simon Stephens’ ‘Heisenberg’ in Japan (18/07/22)
• Jstages talks about “Daddy,” “Slave Play,” capitalism and more with Jeremy O. Harris (19/07/22)
• Olympics maestro brings dance-theatre magic to Saitama (21/07/22)
• NNTT features ‘Lilly Corps’ in its annual wartime reading (04/08/22)
• Imagine living in the future with Kyle Yamada (22/08/22)
• On the musicals trail of go-it-alone Ongakuza (08/06/23)
• Kinoshita Kabuki brings its groundbreaking “Kanjincho” back home in triumph (14/07/23)
• “Once” again in Tokyo (21/07/23)
• Cross boundaries and progress with “The Window of Spaceship In Between” (25/08/23)
• Kyoto Experiment 2023 — Maze Maze (Mixed-up Jumble) (05/09/23)
• It’s a dream come true for “The Golden Island” (15/10/23)
• UK director stages same anime in London and Tokyo (08/01/24)
• Greek maestro brings ‘INK’ to Kyoto (19/01/24)
• Homeless put their best feet forward in Sokerissa dance shows (02/02/24)
• David Leveaux’s ‘Terayama Cabaret’ opens with X-SMAP star in the title role (12/02/24)
• Ate9’s dance and music finally reaches Japan (22/02/24)
• ‘Rent’ star Anthony Rapp arrives with his one-man musical memoir of that landmark work (29/02/24)
• Matthew Bourne’s ‘Romeo + Juliet’ adds up to a real Tokyo treat (22/03/24)
• Japanese Street performers will gather in Koenji (07/04/24)
• Globe-trotting Toshiki Okada to be Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre’s artistic director from April 2026 (03/05/24)
• Pioneering Agatha Christie musical ‘SUNDAY’ set to wow audiences in Japan (04/06/24)
• Romance Hashimoto — a supernova in the contemporary dance world (01/08/24)