I was just as you. I had my normal life like everybody, I followed the steps parents wanted
children to do in life. Hard and good work, settle down, marry, have children, educate …

The Kabuki drama of Japan is one of the oldest extant stage arts in the world. Its traditions,
which reach back into centuries, have been maintained in every aspect of performance …

Although there are well over 250 plays in the kabuki repertory, barely three dozen are
available in English translations. One more can now be added to the list with Faith Bach's …

In the early postwar period, one man who sought to shake up the Japanese theatre world
was renegade critic and director Takechi Tetsuji (1912-1988). Although Takechi worked in a …

The history of Edo's theatrical splendor under the Tokugawa regime (1603-1868) has been
the subject of several studies by Japanese and western authors, especially since World War …

A new kabuki theatre called the Shintomi-za opened in 1878, far outside the existing theatre
district in Tokyo. Although it was a kabuki theatre, its simple facade resembled Western …

For four hundred years, beginning with Izumo no Okuni, Japan's kabuki theatre has been
kept humming by the nuclear power generated by its star actors. Kabuki has produced many …

From time to time ATJ publishes accounts of major symposia dealing with Asian theatre. In
the present case, James R. Brandon provides an excellent account of an international …

At Tokyo's National Theatre, kabuki plays conceived and premiered during the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries are performed today, yet the audience's experience is radically …

Change comes slowly to a traditional world. Japan's traditional popular theatre, kabuki, in its
current standard form has all the earmarks of a" classical" genre to which any alteration is …