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  [I’ve posted a number of pieces about Kabuki, the dynamic traditional theater form of Japan, on Rick On Theater .   (See, for example, “Ka...

Let’s see.  Characters include Colonel Sanders, Johnnie Walker, and some talking felines.  Are you sure this is a Japanese play?  Well, i...

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...