This Lingering Life, which opens this week, is a departure for playwright Chiori Miyagawa and producing company Theatre of Yugen. The Mission District-based ensemble, now in its 35th year and whose ...

TOKYO >> The ghost of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), who led the development of the U.S. atomic bomb, is the main character of a Noh play titled “Oppenheimer,” to be performed on ...

Performed in English by Theatre Nohgaku at the Kita Noh Theatre on Wednesday, the piece explores Oppenheimer’s remorse over the bomb’s devastation during World War Two. The ghost of Oppenheimer, ...

Dramatic theory encompasses various theories related to theatre and the performing arts. As an enthusiastic researcher of Japanese theatre, Margit Juurikas based her thesis on theoretical texts on ...

Japan Society has announced its full 2025–2026 Performing Arts Season, a dynamic lineup of live performances in theater, dance, and music, including multiple world and North American premieres. The ...

"A study of the origins of noh theater. The first part of the book delves into the performance forms and religious, political, and cultural conditions that shaped sarugaku (the early form of noh), ...