How to Make Theatre Scores More Cinematic
Composer Jeremy Douglass was inspired by video games to create underscoring that reacts in real time to the action onstage.
Composer Jeremy Douglass was inspired by video games to create underscoring that reacts in real time to the action onstage.
The new app is designed to make vocal parts easy to learn for the rehearsal room and the stage.
Rooted in tradition while branching into the future, Japanese theatre is making new converts, at home and abroad.
Some artists are going beyond fan-driven escapism to do serious, probing work. Might this be Japan’s ticket to the world?
A brief history of Japanese theatre, from its medieval origins to its postwar revolutions.
U.S. theatre’s relationship with its Japanese colleagues has come a long way since Tadashi Suzuki’s 1978 debut here.
How a new genre of stage productions inspired by anime, manga, and video games are making Japanese pop culture 2.5-dimensional.
Non-human theatre both provokes and comforts in a post-Fukushima world.
Japan Society’s artistic director doesn’t just bring works from Japan to the U.S., she invests in and introduces bodies of work.
How Japan’s recent history has both fostered and demanded intercultural exchange with its Asian neighbors.