IF THE LANGUAGE barrier has previously acted to prevent kyogen, a traditional form of Japanese theatre, from appealing to audiences in Slovakia, then a performance on February 24 in the Astorka Korzo ...

Kyogen master Nomura Manzo IX performs his craft which he learned from his father and grandfather. In Japanese theater, it is often thought that there are three main genres: Noh, Kabuki and Bunraku.

Japan Society has launched its Fall 2020/Winter 2021 Performing Arts Season with a series of online events, due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. In this double-feature program, Japanese megastar and ...

A classic manga by Ryoko Yamagishi featuring Prince Shotoku of ancient Japan will be adapted into a traditional Noh-kyogen drama piece. Nomura Mansai, an acclaimed actor in “kyogen,” a traditional ...

In the uncompromisingly bleak Japanese Noh drama, existence itself is the only joke. But Kyogen -- the comic counterpart to Noh -- has been making fun of human foibles and pretensions for more than ...

In “kyogen,” a traditional form of Japanese comedic theater, a play called “Fumiyamadachi” features two hapless mountain bandits. After failing to ambush a traveler, the pair immediately start to ...

TOKYO -- More than five years after Japanese literature scholar Donald Keene passed away, a bilingual comical play event with a Keene connection called "The Blue-eyed Taro Kaja" was held in September ...

What makes traditional comedy relevant? Is it its capacity to transcend cultural specificities? Or the use of stock characters and themes that are universal? Kyogen, a classical form of comedy that ...

The world of kyogen is mourning the loss of Don Kenny, an American who dedicated his life to performing and disseminating the traditional style of theater in English. He died in September at the age ...

From left to right: siblings Tokuro Miyake, Junko Izumi and Motoya Izumi. Motoya, the youngest of the three, is the 20th principal of the Izumi school, near Tokyo. IZUMI-SOKE No rules formally exclude ...

Japan Society has launched its Fall 2020/Winter 2021 Performing Arts Season with a series of online events, due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. In this double-feature program, Japanese megastar and ...