And he's breaking conventions in Japan’s 420-year-old Kabuki theater tradition ... powerful live music, and elaborate costumes and sets. Many popular storylines include star-crossed lovers ...

Arlo Chiaki Rowe, who played the “nagauta” music that accompanied the ... were revived in 1951. Gradually, Kabuki became a part of the theater department’s official curriculum.

It was also a thriving center of kabuki theater during the Edo period (1603–1868). One vestige of the district’s ties to kabuki is the staging of performances at the Asakusa Public Hall ...

Kabuki is among the most well-known traditional performing arts in Japan. The stage has been dominated by men for more than 400 years. But now an actress is making her mark on this cherished part ...