TAKARAZUKA, Hyogo Prefecture--Rocked by the apparent suicide of one of its performers, the Takarazuka Revue Company said it had formed an investigative team with cooperation from an independent law ...

The chairman of Hankyu Hanshin Holdings Inc. plans to resign from his position as president of the Takarazuka Music School, which trains Takarazuka Revue Company performers, following the apparent ...

Takarazuka Revue Company chairman Kenshi Koba, center, managing director Koji Murakami, right, and production department chief Nobuyuki Iba are seen during a news conference over the death of a troupe ...

Earlier this year, "Final Fantasy X" was adapted into a kabuki play, with, as is the Japanese theatrical art form’s custom, all of the roles being played by men. Now there’s another single-sex ...

Japan's all-female musical theater group Takarazuka Revue said Saturday it has set up an outside team to investigate the cause of the recent death of one of its actresses following a weekly magazine ...

Here's the plot: "Takarazuka Cosmos Troupe. The first installment of Tanaka Yoshiki's Legend of the Galactic Heroes was published in November 1982, and since then approximately 1.5 billion copies have ...

The 300-plus young women of the Takarazuka Revue, Japan’s most successful performance group, do 'Chicago' for the Lincoln Center Festival. Yoka Wao (forefront) in a scene from Takarazuka in Chicago at ...

As one in a series of special productions to mark its centennial, Takarazuka — Japan's longest-standing theater company with all-female casts — is reviving "The Rose of Versailles — Oscar," its 1972 ...

The 101-year-old all-female Takarazuka Revue company is currently staging a double bill of "Like a Black Panther" and "Dear Diamond!!" at its Takarazuka Grand Theater in the city of Takarazuka, Hyogo ...