Category: Asian Theatre Journal

Asian Theatre Journal, vol. 30, no. 2 (2013)

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Opening dance of The Little Clay Cart by Epic Actors Workshop of New Jersey, 2010

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Color Insert follows page 361

IN MEMORIAM

A Kabuki Innovator, Nakamura Kanzaburō XVIII, Dies Too Young: Where Does Kabuki Go from Here?
Laurence Kominz, 267

Kabuki actor, producer, and director Nakamura Kanzaburō XVIII passed away on 5 December 2012, at age fifty-seven, of acute respiratory failure following a half-year battle with throat cancer. Kanzaburō was not just another kabuki star, he was the soul of the art for a huge number of fans, and the hope for kabuki moving in new directions in the future. The “XVIII” indicates that he was the eighteenth-generation actor to bear this name, and his branch of the Nakamura family has owned theaters, managed companies, and directed plays since the early seventeenth century, as well as occasionally providing star actors for the stage.

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Asian Theatre Journal, vol. 29, no. 1 (2012)

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Dancer of the Tongque Stage (Tongque ji) in a 2009 restaging of Sun Yin's choreography in Zhongguo gudianwu style. (Photo: Liu Caiyun, courtesy of the Beijing Dance Academy Han-Tang Program)
Dancer of the Tongque Stage (Tongque ji) in Zhongguo gudianwu style. (Photo: Liu Caiyun, courtesy of Beijing Dance Academy)

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GENDER AND WOMEN
IN ASIAN THEATRE

Female Roles and Engagement of Women in the Classical Sanskrit Theatre Kūṭiyāṭṭam: A Contemporary Theatre Tradition
Coralie Casassas, 1
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Asian Theatre Journal, vol. 28, no. 2 (2011)

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Kabuki watercolor drawing by A.C. Scott (Courtesy of Martha Johnson)
Kabuki watercolor drawing by A. C. Scott (Courtesy of Martha Johnson)

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Addendum to Modern Chinese Drama in English: A Selective Bibliography
Siyuan Liu and Kevin J. Wetmore Jr., 279

SYMPOSIUM:
FOUNDERS OF THE FIELD

(First Generation Asian Theatre Scholars in the United States)
edited by Siyuan Liu and David Jortner
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Asian Theatre Journal, vol. 28, no. 1 (2011)

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Special Issue: Asian Shakespeare 2.0

Macbeth and Lady Macbeth in Gambuh Macbeth
Macbeth and Lady Macbeth in Gambuh Macbeth

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Special Issue Editor’s Introduction: Asian Shakespeare 2.0, 1

ARTICLES

Shakespeare-Asian Theatre Fusions: Globe-“alization” of Naked Masks (Bangkok), Shadowlight (San Francisco), and Setagaya Public Theatre (Tokyo)
Kathy Foley, 7
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