James Armstrong, Playwright

Today, I was able to catch the very last day of the exhibition "Bunraku Backstage" at the Japan Society . Bunraku is a traditional...

The kabuki play The Precious Incense and Autumn Flowers of Sendai  was originally written by Nagawa Kamesuke, but was adapted as a puppet p...

Chikamatsu's play The Love Suicides of Sonezaki is considered to be a classic of the Japanese theatre, so I was very excited to see a ...

Most cultures have some tradition of puppetry, and puppet plays in Japan can be traced back at least to the twelfth century. For much of Jap...