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2025.4.25
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2024.10.25
Sugoi Seimeiryoku ‘s stage is a comedy skit featuring a troubled person and a short play about despair while living together
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2024.11.27
Six people perform monologues about their own lives and work, Pepepe-no-Kai + Iihenji’s stage
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2024.11.22
Hate to Cheek’s play depicts “the worst-case scenario that could happen in our not-too-distant future”
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2024.11.13
Tsuyu to Makura ‘s stage “Tachibana ni Uguisu” depicts “change and tradition” through the existence of immortality.
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2024.11.15
Shibuya PARCO Celebrates 5th Anniversary Since Its Renewal with ZAZEN BOYS, Perfume’s A-chan and More
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2024.10.18
Ungeziefer’s 10th anniversary performance, depicting people who continue to work in a labor that is neither productive nor rewarding.
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2024.10.29
Chamicham’s Third Performance of Lolo’s “Itsuko Series” Fulfills Hatano’s Longing
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2024.10.18
Iedeinu Project’s stage production of “Erika ni Yoroshiku” which depicts the parting and departure of two lovers, will be performed again.
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2024.10.17
KYOTO EXPERIMENT Unveils Showcase of Emerging Curators and Artists
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2024.12.13
‘Oshi no Ko’ Set to Hit the Stage: Dual Key Visuals Unveiled Featuring ‘Tokyo Blade’
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2024.10.25
Japan’s OPULENCE Drag Show Hits Tokyo and Osaka for Vol. 5
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2024.9.20
chelfitsch’s Toshiki Okada Speaks on the Japan Debut of “Metamorphosis of a Living Room”
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2024.9.5
Theater “Cooking Rice in a Rice Cooker and Ending When It’s Cooked” by Yuki Naito of the Asagaya Spiders.
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2024.8.23
Lolo’s New Performance is “Theater x Tanka,” Featuring Poet Ayumi Uesaka, Depicting “People Who Are Bored
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2024.8.17
Two main Amayadori performances, a new science fiction conversation play & the final work of the “Hyottoko Ranbu” era.
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2024.7.16
The story of Utagawa Hiroshige and Meshimori Onna, Mushirase’s stage “NAITOSHINJUKU TRAP-HOLE”.
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2024.7.13
“Wild Hotaru wo Tsukamaero” a one-woman show written and directed by actor and poet Sekiyu Okamoto.
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D.A.N. Returns to the Stage with Solo Concert at Hibiya Open Air Concert Hall
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2025.8.3
tofubeats and Peanut-kun Launch First-Ever Joint Tour “TVP”
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2025.8.4
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2025.7.26
“Shinjuku Kabukicho Shunga Exhibition” to Feature 100 Works This July
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2025.7.24
Kyoto’s Suiheisen Announces First Independent Event in Tokyo and Osaka in July
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2025.7.24
Cornelius Releases Music Through HERALBONY’s ROUTINE RECORDS Label
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2025.7.23
GEZAN Adds Sunny Day Service and More Acts for 47-Prefecture Tour
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