Rick On Theater

  [Wayang kulit, shadow-puppet theater, is one of Indonesia’s major art forms, with many stylistic and regional variations.  As found on the...

by Richard Schechner [Richard Schechner is a prominent teacher of and writer on theater and has made a lifelong study of Asian performance...

By Jon Lackman [A little over a year ago, a friend sent me a column from Slate , the on-line journal. At the time, the word Kabuki was mak...

[In 1976, my parents made a trip to Japan, something they’d wanted to do for a long time. It was their habit to bring something interestin...

On Saturday evening, 13 November, my friend Diana and I drove over to Brooklyn to see Ping Chong’s staging of Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blo...

[Twenty-five years ago, the Grand Kabuki of Japan launched a tour of the United States, which also included stops in Washington and Los Ange...

Westerners seeing a Kabuki play for the first time frequently call it “wonderful.” That’s perhaps more appropriate than they imagine, for th...