When Yoko Layer began her apprenticeship in Japan's venerable world of Noh theater five years ago, she knew she was up against 650 years of male domination. But the tall and tenacious 38-year-old, who ...

At Japan Society, Simon Starling reinterprets a one-act play by W. B. Yeats in which Japanese Noh theater met European modernism. Simon Starling, still from “At Twilight / The Hawk’s Dance” (2016), ...

Japanese Noh theater and Mexican art history will combine for a double-billed production opening April 14 at Willamette University. The plays are a meditation on love, art and attachment. Noh is a ...

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A performance and lecture on a Japanese theater tradition will take the stage tonight at Holsclaw Hall. Noh theater, which has its roots in Japanese legend and history, blends elements of music, drama ...

Japanese Noh Theatre is a quiet, beautiful work of art in masks, kimono and tabi socks. Traditional Noh is an all male production telling folk-tales that are well known in Japan. The productions are ...

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TOKYO >> The ghost of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), who led the development of the U.S. atomic bomb, is the main character of a Noh play titled “Oppenheimer,” to be performed on ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Japan Society proudly announces a much-anticipated event in its current Performing ...

A classic manga by Ryoko Yamagishi featuring Prince Shotoku of ancient Japan will be adapted into a traditional Noh-kyogen drama piece. Nomura Mansai, an acclaimed actor in “kyogen,” a traditional ...