Theatre
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‘We stick two fingers up at Henry VIII’: can the riotous all-Japanese Six out-Tudor-queen the original?
The Japanese version of the pop-rock phenomenon about the six ill-fated wives caused a sensation in Tokyo, Osa…
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Japanese kabuki actor gets suspended sentence for assisting parents’ suicide
Ennosuke Ichikawa was part of apparent family pact to take their own lives after he learned he was to be accus…
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Japanese kabuki actor found collapsed at home alongside parents
Ennosuke Ichikawa taken to hospital but mother and father died after taking overdoseThe world of Japanese kabu…
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‘There was one prima donna on Star Trek’: George Takei on William Shatner, love and life as an ‘enemy alien’
TV made him a star, but activism turned him into a hero. Now 85 and still going strong, the actor remembers hi…
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Mama, just killed a samurai! How Japan used Queen to liven up Romeo and Juliet
How do you give the star-cross’d lovers a lift? Drop them in 12th-century Japan and add a classic Queen album.…
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Queen’s A Night at the Opera inspires Japanese take on Romeo and Juliet
A Night at the Kabuki, which shifts the star-crossed lovers to 12th-century Japan, will visit London on an int…
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Mystery of the second world war ‘trophy’ and the Royal Court founder
When George Devine’s family discovered a Japanese battle flag among his belongings, it led to a three-year que…
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Tokyo Rose review – fiery musical revolves around radio DJ’s fight for justice
Southwark Playhouse, LondonIva Toguri’s trial for treason, accused of broadcasting Japanese propaganda to Amer…
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An Actor’s Revenge: Kon Ichikawa’s phenomenal kabuki thriller
In this stylish Japanese classic, a performer uses theatrical techniques to engineer the deaths of his enemies…
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After Audition: Takashi Miike’s rehearsal-room shocker Over Your Dead Body
Continuing our series on the best films about theatre, a 200-year-old Japanese ghost story takes centre stage …
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A revolution is sweeping through Japan’s Takarazuka Music School
This month the school scrapped several longstanding and unwritten rules that governed the behaviour of student…
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Diary of a socially distanced director: how I staged a play in Tokyo – from London
When Lindsay Posner was asked to direct a production of Twelve Angry Men from his home in the UK, with a Japan…
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Enjoying the real and unreal on stage | Letter
Roger Macy on the The Seven Streams of the River OtaI was every bit as carried away by The Seven Streams of th…
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Passionate, tender, heartbreaking … letters reveal Leonard Bernstein’s 10-year secret affair
The West Side Story composer met and fell in love with a young Japanese fan on tour and their romance lasted u…