At Japan Society, Simon Starling reinterprets a one-act play by W. B. Yeats in which Japanese Noh theater met European modernism. Simon Starling, still from “At Twilight / The Hawk’s Dance” (2016), ...

A performance and lecture on a Japanese theater tradition will take the stage tonight at Holsclaw Hall. Noh theater, which has its roots in Japanese legend and history, blends elements of music, drama ...

TOKYO >> The ghost of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), who led the development of the U.S. atomic bomb, is the main character of a Noh play titled “Oppenheimer,” to be performed on ...

Unrequited love, infidelity, revenge, battles for territory and honor, suicide, repentance! I’m not talking about spaghetti westerns or sci-fi epics, but about the Noh plays of 15 th-century Japan. In ...

While other three-year-olds were learning the alphabet and playing in sandboxes, Soraya Umewaka '06 was beginning to master a traditional Japanese art form that has been carried in her bloodline for ...

Mayuko Kashiwazaki (C) performs during a dress rehearsal for 'Dojoji', a famous Japanese traditional Noh drama - Copyright AFP ANTHONY WALLACE Mayuko Kashiwazaki (C ...

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TOKYO -- FX's newest show "Shōgun" takes viewers back in time to ancient Japan and honors the tradition of Noh, a form of theater involving dance, drama and music. "Noh has a very important root to ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Prominent members from the Kita Noh School, including Akiyo Tomoeda, Living ...

TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - An actor, his face covered with a white oval mask, shuffles across the stage, pauses, then slowly raises an arm clutching a gilded fan as a flautist plays a haunting, tense ...

Alvin Langdon Coburn’s portrait of W. B. Yeats, from the book Men ofMark, 1913. “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person,” declares Oscar Wilde, “Give him a mask and he will tell you the ...