The National Theatre in Tokyo, a traditional arts hub since 1966, faces an uncertain future, but new tours offered rare backstage access with the chance to try on kabuki costumes.

Wagner almost experienced a shipwreck, which inspired him to write this opera early in his career based on a modern English legend about a Dutch ship captain who is doomed to sail the oceans ...

Construction of the New National Theatre, Tokyo has begun in earnest. Completion of the new theater, which will be a center for performing arts, is scheduled for February 1997. Management and ...

Japan's National Theatre, a base for the traditional performing arts, is in crisis. The sleek theater in central Tokyo closed a year ... opportunity to attract new fans," she added.