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Saturday, July 2, 2022

ENGEKIKAI #3 (March 2022): Cover and Contents

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The late Nakamura Kichiemon II as  Ichijō Ōkura Nagashige in   Ichijō Ōkura no Monogatari. Photo: Shinoyama Kishin.        Here, as promised...
Wednesday, June 29, 2022

"The Theatres of Japan" by T.J. Nakagawa (1890)

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This essay was originally going to be part of my book They Saw  Danjūrō : Foreign Theatregoers at Meiji Kabuki, a collection of Meiji period...
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Samuel L. Leiter
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Theatre), Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. Drama Desk voter. Author/editor of 31 books. Most recent: BROOKLYN TAKES THE STAGE (2024); MEIJI KABUKI (2022); KABUKI AT THE CROSSROADS (2014). Selected others: ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE NEW YORK STAGE, 1920-1930, 1930-1940, 1940-1950; SHAKESPEARE AROUND THE GLOBE; FROM BELASCO TO BROOK; FROM STANISLAVSKY TO BARRAULT; THE GREAT STAGE DIRECTORS; FROZEN MOMENTS; ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ASIAN THEATRE; HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF JAPANESE TRADITIONAL THEATRE; THE ART OF KABUKI; KABUKI PLAYS ON STAGE (4 vols.), etc. “Back-translations”: THE LION KING, AIDA, and WICKED for Tokyo productions. Blogs: KABUKI WOOGIE and THEATRE'S LEITER SIDE. Regular contributor: THEATER PIZZAZZ, THEATER LIFE. slleiter@gmail.com
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