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The New National Theatre, Tokyo (NNTT) (新国立劇場, Shin Kokuritsu Gekijō) is Japan's first and foremost national centre for the performing arts, including opera, ballet, contemporary dance and drama. It is located in the Shinjuku area of Tokyo. Since 1997 more than 650 productions were staged.
The National Theatre of Japan (国立劇場, Kokuritsu Gekijō) is a complex consisting of three halls in two buildings in Hayabusachō, a district in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. The Japan Arts Council, an Independent Administrative Institution of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, operates the National Theatre. It ...
The complex contains a concert hall with 1999 seats and a playhouse with 834 seats as well as a number of smaller spaces. [3]The organ of the great hall, built by the French organ builder Marc Garnier and inaugurated in 1991, is composed of three independent instruments of contrasting aesthetics (Dutch Renaissance, German Baroque and modern French) for a total of 126 sets and more than 9000 pipes.
The Globe Theatre, located in Shin-Ōkubo in Tokyo, now belongs mostly to Johnny's Entertainment and the promotion of pop idols in the acting field. Yukio Ninagawa is an internationally known Japanese director and playwright who often turns to elements of Shakespeare for inspiration.
The first performance was held on 30 March 2017, with Kazuki Nakashima's acclaimed samurai drama “Dokurojo no Shichinin” (“Seven Souls in the Skull Castle”). IHI Corporation acquired the naming rights of the theatre. [3] 2023 would be last season of the theatre, [4] with the closure announced to be in April 2024. Itochu Property ...
The original Imperial Theatre building, 1915. Opened in 1911 as the first Western-style theater in Japan, it stages a varied program of musicals and operas. [1] The original structure was rebuilt in 1966 as Toho's "flagship" theater, opening with the premiere of Scaretto, a local adaptation of Gone With the Wind, which drew 380,000 attendees over the course of the theater's first five months ...
The theater is now run by the Shochiku Corporation which took over in 1914. The original Kabuki-za was a wooden structure, built in 1889 on land which had been either the Tokyo residence of the Hosokawa clan of Kumamoto, or that of Matsudaira clan of Izu. [2] [3] The building was destroyed on 30 October 1921, by an electrical fire. [3]
The Panasonic Globe Theatre in Tokyo, Japan, was designed by Isozaki Arata and opened in 1988 to showcase local and international productions of Shakespeare's plays.