Lawyers outlined the final days of a budding entertainer of the famed all-female Takarazuka Revue who took her own life in late September after sacrificing sleep to perfect her art and enduring daily ...

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 ...

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 ...

In its first century of existence, the Takarazuka Revue has grown to occupy one of the central positions in Japan’s entertainment world. All the performers are female, contributing to the unique ...

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 ...

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 been sold of his ...

Ace Attorney comes to the stage again, Capcom announces. Prosecutor Miles Edgeworth: Ace Attorney 3 will be presented for the stage by the all-female Takarazuka Revue come January 2013, Capcom ...

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 ...