Land of the Rising Stage
Rooted in tradition while branching into the future, Japanese theatre is making new converts, at home and abroad.
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Japanese Theatre, Know Yourself
Some artists are going beyond fan-driven escapism to do serious, probing work. Might this be Japan’s ticket to the world?
Japanese Theatre’s U.S. Expansion Teams
U.S. theatre’s relationship with its Japanese colleagues has come a long way since Tadashi Suzuki’s 1978 debut here.
Anime Magnetism
How a new genre of stage productions inspired by anime, manga, and video games are making Japanese pop culture 2.5-dimensional.
Bugs, Bots, and Ghosts
Non-human theatre both provokes and comforts in a post-Fukushima world.
Manuela Infante Makes Space for Ideas
The Chilean theatremaker, now touring the U.S., works at the intersection of spectacle and philosophy.
What’s Miami Is Yours
The future of the United States runs through South Florida stages.
Featured Contributors, April 2019
Two writers take on the state of new musicals and the people who make them.
The Turnover Recipe: Add New Voices and Audiences, Stir
What should we expect from the U.S. theatre’s field-wide changing of the guard? A new generation of leaders gives cause for cautious optimism.
‘Native Gardens’: Building the (Botanical) Wall
This spring, Karen Zacarías’s popular play is going up at three different theatres, and raises a prescient dialogue about border disputes and neighborly conduct.
