What is Kabuki drama? Kabuki is a popular Japanese theater form which experts date back to 17th century Kyoto, at the beginning of the Edo period. The drama employs vivid, elaborate costumes and ...

Tamasaburo Bando V is one of Japan’s most celebrated performers of Kabuki, the traditional dance/drama form whose roots date back some 500 years. Now, the 61-year-old artist also is a Kyoto Prize ...

Interested in Japanese Kabuki theatre? Join us for a special Halloween-themed class focusing on a video of the Kabuki dance drama, "The Demon Spider" (Kumo no Hyoushimai). The commander Minamoto ...

Lee Sang-il’s kabuki drama Kokuho has set a new record in Japan, becoming the highest-grossing Japanese live-action film ever in the market with over $111M at the local box office. The Ken ...

The dramatic revival of kabuki and nihonbuyo in Japan unfolds as audiences are drawn in by the compelling narratives and ...

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As part of Variety’s Screening Series, “Kokuho” production designer Yohei Taneda and producer Chieko Murata joined Variety’s co-editor-in-chief Cynthia Littleton for a candid conversation about the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Although there are well over 250 plays in the kabuki repertory, barely three dozen are available in English translations. One more can now be ...

An exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago features over 30 of Tōshūsai Sharaku’s rarely shown ukiyo-e prints exemplifying the classic Japanese theater genre. Tōshūsai Sharaku, "The Actor Segawa ...

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