Happy birthday to my beloved Mira Anju!

The best - always!

Seen here on a London park bench circa 1999 in a photo from her 20th anniversary photo book.

#安寿ミラ #ヤン #MiraAnju #Yan #宝塚 #Takarazuka #Japan #日本🇯🇵 #theatre #舞台 #dance #ダンス #London #ロンドン #birthday #演劇 #長崎 #Nagasaki #choreographer #振り付け #誕生日

Kumiko Ueda, Japanese theatre director (ex-Takarazuka) reflects on the relationship between the audience and the performance in this fascinating blog post.

She was directing Hamlet at the time and so she also looks at what we know about Shakespeare’s audiences - the people who saw the plays at the Globe Theatre in the late 16th/early 17th century.

And she points to how fragmented and segmented audiences have become and the difficulties that creates.

The post is in Japanese but if you use Chrome’s translate option, you get a very readable English version (something that doesn’t always happen with machine translations from Japanese).

https://note.com/kumiko_ueda/n/n3c9e34e8b30b

#上田久美子 #宝塚 #KumikoUeda #Takarazuka #theatre #JapaneseTheatre #Shakespeare #Hamlet #GlobeTheatre #Japan #日本🇯🇵 #ShakespeareInJapan

観客の集団の性質|上田久美子(projectumï)

観客は作品を構成し、完璧にもでき、スポイルもできる 【この記事は本文無料となっています】 作品にとって、観客との関係は重要であり、常に悩ましい。 私は4年ほど前に宝塚の演出を辞めて以来、それまで自作を観てくれるのは主にヅカファンか団体観光客と層が固定化していたところから、それより多様な観客層に出会う機会が増えた。 結果、今もまだ混乱している。 私がこれまでと違うフィールドの俳優たちと仕事をした結果、その俳優たちが彼らの観客層と少し違う私の観客層に出会うことの難しさもあるのかもしれない。 今のところ、客席と舞台上がしっくりくる上演にまだ出会えていない気がする。 ある時、宝塚を辞

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Weekly Round-Up, 24-31 December 2025: Internationally Streaming Takarazuka, FTC Anime Industry Investigation, and Gal x Gal

https://www.animefeminist.com/weekly-round-up-24-31-december-2025/

#anime #ftc #takarazuka #castlevania #japan #news #lgbtq #manga

𝘛𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘳𝘰 𝘑𝘢𝘱𝘰𝘯é𝘴

📚 🎌 Disponible en el siguiente enlace (en la bio):
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DK418R2S

🎏 Un recorrido por las artes teatrales niponas desde la antigüedad al presente: abarca el nacimiento mítico del teatro, y sus diversas manifestaciones: kagura, gigaku, bugaku —gagaku—, sangaku y sarugaku, entre otros antecedentes del sofisticado teatro nō, que explora también, para luego recrearse en el kabuki, y el teatro de títeres jōruri o bunraku, hasta llegar a tendencias propias de la modernidad —y postmodernidad—, como shimpa, shingeki, angura, la compañía de revista Takarazuka, la danza butō y el teatro contemporáneo.

✒️@barbarelladacevedo
🖌️Ilustraciones, diseño y maquetación: @erickeimil

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#FeriaInternacionaldelLibrodeLaHabana #Fil2025 #Japón🇯🇵 #teatro #teatroasiatico #kagura #gigaku #gagaku #bugaku #sangaku #sarugaku #dengaku #teatronoh #kabuki #bunraku #shimpa #shingeki #angura #takarazukarevue #butoh

Public prosecutors have sought the death penalty for Hideaki Nozu, who has been charged with killing three members of his family with arrows fired from a crossbow in Hyogo Prefecture in June 2020. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/15/japan/crime-legal/death-penalty-sought-for-fatal-crossbow-attack/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts #hyogo #takarazuka #deathpenalty
Death penalty sought over fatal crossbow attack

The prosecution said that the defendant's autism spectrum disorder did not significantly affect his motivation and that his acts were planned.

The Japan Times
https://www.wacoca.com/videos/2949485/celebrity/ 【宙組生×片寄涼太SPトーク『PRINCE OF LEGEND』】meet the タカニュ vol.3│au presents meet my TAKARAZUKA season2 #Celebrities #Celebrity #LEGENDmeet #Meet #Presents #season2 #takarazuka #Vlog #vol.3au #タカニュ #宙組生片寄涼太SPトークPRINCE #片寄涼太

Eine berühmte Muscial-Gruppe Takarazuka Revue erntete Kritik nach der Verwendung eines ehemaligen Kriegsliedes in ihrem Stück. Nun soll das Stück ersetzt werden. #Japan #Takarazuka #BaysideStar

https://sumikai.com/nachrichten-aus-japan/beruehmte-musical-gruppe-aus-takarazuka-streicht-umstrittenes-kriegslied-aus-aktuellem-stueck-363905/

Mira Anju (安寿ミラさん) is holding two dinner shows in December - one in Takarazuka on 16/12/2025 and one in Tokyo (Tokyo Kaikan) on 24/12/2025.

The guest for the show in Takarazuka is Miharu Morina (森奈みはるさん).

Tickets for the show in Takarazuka can be bought here:

https://www.hankyu-hotel.com/hotel/hh/takarazukahotel/events/2025_miraanju

The guests for the show in Tokyo are Ai Kodama (こだま愛さん) and Nachi Mineoka (峰丘奈知さん).

Tickets for the show in Tokyo can be booked here:

https://www.kaikan.co.jp/news/20250903_005625.html

Tip: if you are booking on a web form from outside Japan (i.e. with a non-Japanese address), enter a row of zeroes in the mandatory postcode field.

Tickets are ¥40,000 but that includes the meal.

#安寿ミラ #宝塚 #東京會舘 #MiraAnju #Takarazuka #TokyoKaikan #dinnershow #Tokyo #Japan #森奈みはる #こだま愛 #峰丘奈知 #MiharuMorina #AiKodama #NachiMineoka

Die #Takarazuka Revue, die nur aus Frauen besteht, ist in #Japan sehr bekannt. Nun baut ihre Betreibergesellschaft ein neues Theater, zentral in Tokyo. Es soll im Jahr 2029 eröffnet werden.

https://sumikai.com/nachrichten-aus-japan/kultur/hankyu-corp-baut-neues-theater-in-tokyo-356904/