Next month, the Death Note stage musical will be performed in concert at London’s Lyric Theatre. This West End venue has been home to all sorts of legendary shows since it opened in 1888. Now Light and L will tread the same boards as characters ranging …Read more »
If you were curious as to how a Fist of the North Star musical might work, you’re in luck, because a new preview video recently made its way online. Musical Fist of the North Star is precisely what it sounds like, aiming to bring the …Read more »
The world of Shinobu Ohtaka’s fantasy action adventure manga Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic is coming to life in a musical adaptation, which is scheduled to be performed at the Galaxy Theater in Tokyo from June 3 to 12, followed by performances at Osaka’s Morinomiya …Read more »
Mamoru Hosoda’s 2015 film The Boy and the Beast is being turned into a musical. The Boy and the Beast musical will be produced by Hosoda’s Studio Chizu and the Shiki Theatre Company, and will premiere in April 2022 in Tokyo. The musical will bring …Read more »
Most people know Kiki’s Delivery Service through the film by Hayao Miyazaki. But did you know that film is based on series of novels by Eiko Kadono? That series has had other adaptations, too, like a live-action film. Now it’s coming to the stage! The …Read more »
Back in 2016, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and French president Francois Hollande agreed to organize an event called Japonismes 2018 to celebrate 150 years of diplomatic relations between Japan and France. From July through February of next year, Paris is to host a showcase …Read more »
Fushigi Yugi: The Mysterious Play, the popular shoujo manga from Yuu Watase, is coming to the stage. Again. The manga was adapted into a stage play in 2010, then a musical in 2016. Now a sequel to that musical is headed to a theatre in …Read more »
Hetalia: In the New World , a new musical based on Hetalia: Axis Powers , is opening this July in Japan, and now a series of photographs of the cast in costume has been revealed. Hetalia: In the New World plays from July 15 to …Read more »
The latest Sailor Moon stage production is the upcoming "Sailor Moon -Le Mouvement Final-" musical, which is scheduled to premiere in Japan this September. The plan is for this to be the fifth and final chapter of the current musical project, and the Pretty Guardian …Read more »
It’s been a tough few months for Emi Nitta. The anime voice actress, best known for her role as Love Live! protagonist Honoka Kosaka, has left her role as Tokoha Anjo on the series Cardfight!! Vanguard G , her agency announced this weekend. The news …Read more »
Well, that’s pretty cool. Wake Up, Girls! , the anime series about a Tohoku-based production company that forms an idol group, is becoming a stage play that’ll open in January 2017. Okay, anime-based plays are pretty common these days, but here’s the thing: the play …Read more »
Anime-based stage plays seem to be all the rage these days, so it should come as no surprise that popular soccer manga/anime Whistle! is getting its own theatrical production. Whistle! Break Through is set to play at the Tokyo Theater in August, and we’ve just …Read more »
For about a week this July, there will be nary a human male in sight on the stage at New York’s Lincoln Center. That’s where the Takarazuka Revue, Japan’s all-female musical theater troupe, are making their U.S. debut, performing Chicago (in Japanese) between July 20 …Read more »
Be still our six-pack-loving hearts. The PR machine for the Fairy Tail stage play (man, is there any anime that doesn’t have a stage adaptation these days?) has revealed its first visual, a photo of Shuuto Miyazaki as Natsu Dragneel. And it’s ab-tacular. Miyazaki is …Read more »
Over the past few months, teaser shots from the new Ghost in the Shell stage play, based on the Arise OVA series, have been trickling out, showing its principals, including lead Kaede Aono as Motoko Kusanagi, in costume. Now the play has premiered in Tokyo, …Read more »
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