Welcome to Gion, a district that draws you in with its traditional wooden machiya merchant houses, stunning shrines and temples, and centuries-old geisha and kabuki traditions. Begin at Yasaka Shrine, ...

No doubt Stephen Sondheim fans have seen his most popular musicals many times. But that’s not the case with his masterpiece ...

Kabuki is a centuries-old form of popular theater whose art has been passed down through the generations from father to child, from master to apprentice. Nakamura Takanosuke is the son of Nakamura ...

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The eleventh month has long been an exciting time for kabuki aficionados, as it marks the start of a new season of performances. It was customary during the Edo period (1603–1868) for kabuki ...

Rowley specialises in making Japanese women and their stories known to English-speaking readers. She has written a study of Yosano Akiko, the feminist poet, and she translated Autobiography of a ...

As Nena St. Louis, Sylvia Toy St. Louis was a theater artist for 17 years and founding Artistic Director of Jump! Theatre Company in San Francisco CA for 7 years.

TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police have arrested a 43-year-old man for allegedly engaging in lewd acts with a runaway high school girl in Shinjuku Ward earlier this year. Between September 13 and ...

In Midas Man, British actor Jacob Fortune-Lloyd has been transformed into the dapper style that encapsulated Brian Epstein during his life. Jacob told us: "I must admit I didn’t know much about ...

largely because he was impressed by the fervor of Logan’s veneration for Kabuki, No, and Bunraku, the three unquestionably genuine gems in the old man’s crown, and the ones closest to his heart.