James Armstrong, Playwright

The Japanese dramatist Zeami is credited with originating the bulk of the repertoire of Noh plays , among them a short piece about love and ...

We're now in the Year of the Tiger, and when I visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art today, they naturally had an exhibit on tigers in ...

The earliest known depiction of Izumo no Okuni, the founder of the theatrical form of kabuki , is on a screen currently owned by the Kyoto N...

Bertolt Brecht  is known today mainly for his theory of the Verfremdungseffekt, or Alienation Effect, but he himself thought he would be re...

Around 1603 a priestess from the Izumo Grand Shrine began dancing not in the temple, but in a dry riverbed in Kyoto, Japan. This remarkable ...

Like so much of Japanese culture, traditional theatre in Japan was originally borrowed from China. In the eleventh and twelfth centuries, i...