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 ...

One of the most recognizable buildings in Japan, the grand, old Kabuki-za in Ginza is closing this month. It will be torn down and become a theater and office complex with direct connections to the ...

Amaterasu Za will present OKUNI: The Woman Who Created Kabuki, written, directed, and choreographed by Ako Dachs. This show will be performed in Japanese with subtitles and thematic narrations in ...

The world-renowned Grand Kabuki Theatre of Japan will make a rare visit to Seattle this June, to perform for two nights at the Paramount Theatre. Known in Japan as Chikamatsu-za, the revered, ...

FROM the busiest intersection of Tokyo’s main street, the Ginza, it is only a few steps to the Kabuki-Za, the principal theater dedicated to the presentation of Japan’s most colorful form of drama, ...

TOKYO — Kabuki has an image problem in the West. A treasure of Japanese culture dating back four centuries, it has since become a byword for elaborate, empty posturing — political and otherwise. True, ...

JAPAN’S Westernisation is only skin-deep. For musical proof of this, consider the eagerness with which the Japanese periodically forsake their high-tech existence and immerse themselves in their ...