TAKARAZUKA, Hyogo Prefecture--Dreams came true for 40 teenage girls who passed rigorous screening to begin training as future stars of the popular Takarazuka Revue Company. The Takarazuka Music School ...

What happens when Takarazuka, Japan's longest-running all-female theater troupe, takes on Masayuki Suo's hit movie "Shall We Dance?," which won 14 Japanese Academy Awards in 1996 and aired ...

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 ...

Kobayashi Ichizō (1873–1957) was a powerful corporate leader, but today he is best remembered as the founder of the perennially popular all-female Takarazuka Revue. What began as a scheme to boost ...

The Takarazuka Revue draws huge audiences and is sought after by aspiring young stars A prestigious Japanese all-female theatre company has admitted it feels responsible for the death of a young ...

Hold on to your coconuts.

Every spring, among the entrance announcements of top universities in Japan, the unique all-women Takarazuka Music School makes headlines. Takarazuka Revue is an all-female theatrical company founded ...