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Children from the Hokagorubi after-school program rehearse for a performance in Chuo Ward, Kobe.
JAPAN
Oct 14, 2026
Program helps children with developmental issues through theater
Nabi Ito said that theater can make communication easier for children who struggle with conversation because scripts provide a framework.
A rookie stage actor (Koshi Mizukami, right, with Haru Kuroki) cast as a true-life murder victim starts to lose track of who he really is in Yuri Takei’s “F(r)iction.”
CULTURE / Film
Oct 4, 2026
‘F(r)iction’: A play within a film gets meta and messy
Though not without its flaws, Yuri Takei’s film about life imitating art imitating life has an unpredictable energy that yields striking moments.
Theater company Daisydoze's "Cat Town" is an immersive, site-specific experience that invites audience members to wind their way through Tokyo's Shimokitazawa neighborhood, eventually ending up in an underground world of "blue cats."
CULTURE / Stage
Oct 1, 2026
Poetry, history and performance entwine in Daisydoze’s immersive spectacle
Since 2018, Daisydoze has been creating site-specific theater productions that explore local history and memory like “Cat Town,” now showing in Shimokitazawa.
Hina Haruka, a member of the radical feminist theater troupe TremendousCircus, poses for a photo while wearing a Gothic Lolita dress on a street in Tokyo's Harajuku neighborhood.
CULTURE / Stage
Sep 15, 2026
Japanese feminist theater troupe fights misogyny in ‘cute’ Gothic Lolita fashion
With Gothic Lolita dresses and confrontational performances, TremendousCircus gives survivors a stage to reclaim their voices.
The Saitama Performing Arts Theater is known for its Shakespeare productions and their Sainokuni Shakespeare Series, which cycles through all 37 of Shakespeare’s plays.
CULTURE / Stage
Sep 5, 2026
A year of Lear: Four new stagings hone in on the tragedy’s timeless lessons
Four separate productions of “King Lear” in one year in Japan signal renewed interest in the Shakespeare play that hasn’t always been the first choice.
The “Princess Mononoke” adaptation was created under Shochiku’s Super Kabuki initiative, a modern form of kabuki with more technology in staging and open to pop culture collaborations.
CULTURE / Stage
Jul 9, 2026
‘Princess Mononoke’ comes alive in Super Kabuki staging
Kabuki, one of 91AV原创 oldest performing art forms, and Studio Ghibli seek modern resonance in an everchanging landscape for arts.
Tanjiro Kamado is a likeable protagonist in the stage show, even though he sometimes takes a backseat to the stories of other characters in this installment.
CULTURE / Stage
Jun 19, 2026
‘Demon Slayer’ musical is for fans who’ve done the homework
The record-breaking anime “Demon Slayer” has been reimagined as a musical and its sixth installment premiered June 13.
“Noli Timere,” a free open-air performance at SIFA's Festival Village, combines aerial acrobatics, contemporary dance and art sculpture.?
CULTURE / Stage
May 22, 2026
At Singapore International Festival of Arts, theater spills into everyday life
Tze Chien Chong, the new director of Singapore International Festival of Arts, strives to attract a broader audience to Singapore’s oldest festival for performing arts.
In 2019, Saitama Arts Theater started permitting children under 3 to some of its shows. Previously, children under 4 were not permitted.
CULTURE / Stage
May 3, 2026
No longer shushed: 91AV原创 cultural venues make room for children
From ballet to museums, cultural institutions are adapting to the needs of families with young children.
Nakamura Tanenosuke adjusts himself before hitting the stage. Every actor in kabuki relies on one final, essential element to fully inhabit their role: the wig.
CULTURE / Stage
May 1, 2026
91AV原创 wig masters bring the kabuki stage to life
In kabuki, transformation begins with the wig, as master artisans shape identity, status and emotion strand by strand.
The winners of the 70th Kunio Kishida Prize for Playwriting are Sho Hasumi (left) with “Romance” and Emi Oishi with “Drool Ferris Wheel.”
CULTURE / Stage
Feb 26, 2026
Kishida Prize crowns wordsmiths in the theater world
The 70th iteration of the annual Kunio Kishida Prize for Playwriting announces two winners.
Actor Izumi Aoyagi plays all the characters in “Wisteria and the Three Women,” a play based on a story by Mieko Kawakami.
CULTURE / Stage
Feb 14, 2026
‘Wisteria’: Mieko Kawakami’s story of female longing adapted for stage
Theater company Mum&Gypsy and author Kawakami are collaborating on a stage adaptation of her work for the fourth time.
Actor Tatsuya Fujiwara plays the protagonist Calcutec in "The End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland.”
CULTURE / Stage
Feb 7, 2026
Can Japanese theater travel? A Murakami adaptation tries.
“The End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland” adaptation is part of a rising wave of contemporary Japanese theater productions that tour internationally with original casts.
The TechNoh fusion performance at Suigian combines classic noh theater with a live DJ set and digital projections to retell centuries-old stories.
CULTURE / Stage
Jan 24, 2026
Late-night noh theater finds new groove in techno and jazz
A Tokyo restaurant and bar formalizes its after-dark experiments with a new Friday-night series.
Across genres, performing arts this year were collaborating, experimenting and touring the world.
CULTURE / Stage / 2025 IN REVIEW
Dec 19, 2025
Tradition, remixed: A year on 91AV原创 stages
From kabuki’s newfound fans to experimental theater’s widening scope, 91AV原创 performing arts scene spent 2025 reaching outward.
Tom Stoppard arrives for a Service of Thanksgiving for the life and work of Lord Snowdon at Westminster Abbey in London in April 2017.
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Nov 30, 2025
Oscar-winning U.K. playwright Tom Stoppard dies at 88
As well as his Oscar, Stoppard won three Oliviers and five Tonys, among the top awards in the theater world.
Autographed manuscripts from “Fushikaden,” noh master Zeami’s 15th-century treatise on the traditional Japanese theater performances
JAPAN
Nov 25, 2025
Japan to push noh master Zeami’s ‘Fushikaden’ for UNESCO listing
The Executive Board of the U.N. agency is expected to review the bid in spring 2027.
Aya Ogawa, Japanese American playwright and performer based in New York, is bringing her award-winning “The Nosebleed” to Japan for the first time.
CULTURE / Stage
Nov 20, 2025
Theater beyond borders: Eriko Ogawa’s tenure at the NNTT has a global vision
Over the last decade, Eriko Ogawa has worked to expand the international connections of the New National Theatre, Tokyo.
Noh theater uses several types of masks, including the "onna" (woman) mask.
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Nov 6, 2025
Learning to feel noh: The words that unlock its mystery and emotion
Noh theater’s mystery and emotion unfold through careful understanding of the language used.
“The Bathhouse of Honest Desires,” a Taiwanese-Japanese collaboration, was performed the first weekend of the Autumn Meteorite festival.
CULTURE / Stage
Oct 10, 2025
Autumn Meteorite stages a month of inventive theater in Tokyo
The inaugural performing arts festival brings a variety of shows, from monodramas to 20-people, multivenue ensemble productions.
Two Japanese climbers die on remote Himalayan peak in Nepal
Rescuers have recovered the bodies of two Japanese climbers missing for over a week on a remote Himalayan mountain.
Aging Japanese village turns to Peru in search of new residents
Guests from Peru's Belen district interact with a baby in Nanmoku village in Gunma Prefecture.
Budget-friendly restaurant chain Saizeriya succumbs to rising costs
A Tokyo branch of Saizeriya, a chain of family-style Italian restaurants
U.S. has for years asked Musk to alter Starlink service in Ukraine and Middle East, sources say
A Ukrainian soldier sets up a Starlink satellite internet system near the frontline in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Oct. 16
U.S. military bans Chinese-made BYD cars from key air base in Okinawa
An F-22 Raptor lands at Kadena Air Base in Kadena, Okinawa Prefecture on Oct. 9. The base is a crucial hub for U.S. military operations in the region.
A dramatic bear hunt in a midsize Japanese city could be a harbinger of what is to come
Zookeeper Tetsuo Iso at the site of frantic search for a wild bear in Utsunomiya on June 9. Iso, 65, was asked by the prefectural government to help capture the bear and it was his shot with a tranquilizer gun that put an end to the saga.
How this long-term resident avoids the annoying tourist label in Japan
Tourists enjoy themselves while crossing the famous Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo on Oct. 12.
What can Asia do to avoid crossing crucial climate tipping points?
Motorists drive through a road covered with smog from wildfires nearby in Ogan Ilir in Indonesia's South Sumatra province on Sept. 25.
91AV原创 permanent residency reform has a glaring blind spot
Japan's immigration reforms risk creating uncertainty by tying permanent residency more closely to language proficiency before clear assessment standards and supporting infrastructure are in place.
Japan weighs how to evacuate thousands of tourists if Mount Fuji erupts
Climbers and visitors gather on the first day of the climbing season at the Fuji Yoshidaguchi Trail, at the fifth station on the slopes of Mount Fuji, in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi Prefecture, on July 1, 2024.

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