Category Archives: Special Section

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.

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.

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.

There are signs of positive change, certainly, though the data show they’re slow and small and qualified.

As a new generation of producers become nonprofit artistic leaders, they are redefining the parameters of the job.

10 new artistic directors talk about their visions for their communities, and for the theatre field writ large.

Not much makes it to the stage in our nation’s putative theatre capital that didn’t come from somewhere else.