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Japan’s marquee theater fest defends free speech post-3/11

The producer of Japan’s foremost stage showcase sees a cloud descending on free expression in the country. “In recent Japanese media... we can see a critical and dangerous increase in one-sided denunciations of risk-taking artists and art,” says program director Chiaki Soma in her notes for F/T12. To combat what she sees as a “nonchalant oppression,”...

Oct 11, 2012 | No Comments | 3,154 views
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Perkins, Lewis and Cash... Who are they?

Jul 31, 2012 | No Comments | 931 views
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Silent comedy gets the Tokyo treatment

Mar 14, 2012 | One Comment | 1,973 views
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Manzo Nomura and Thane Camus bring “mad words” to the barbarians

Feb 15, 2012 | No Comments | 2,042 views
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A dance-theater hybrid based on a transgender spy

Nov 8, 2011 | No Comments | 1,756 views
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It’s about finding your inner Blue Man, says Tokyo show’s Callum Grant

Sep 7, 2011 | One Comment | 3,136 views
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Shinjuku's annual bevy of Latin film

Sep 1, 2011 | No Comments | 2,089 views
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American Idol’s Anthony Federov brings the biblical musical to Japan

Feb 17, 2011 | One Comment | 3,760 views
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The Oxford University Drama Society offers a new take on Shakespeare’s controversial comedy

Jul 29, 2010 | No Comments | 3,042 views
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Broadway star Amra-Faye Wright tries a familiar role — this time in Japanese

Jun 3, 2010 | No Comments | 3,102 views
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London’s International Theatre Company returns with a new take on the Bard’s most compact tragedy

May 6, 2010 | No Comments | 2,590 views
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Black Stripe Theatre takes a timely new look at Manuel Puig’s meditation on politics and homosexuality

Apr 8, 2010 | No Comments | 2,287 views
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