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 ...

Shamed by an initial report into the suspected suicide of a rising star of the Takarazuka Revue, top-level entities of the all-female troupe will take over the task and set up another panel to ...

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 ...

Presented as part of the annual Lincoln Center Festival, the production of Chicago features Takarazuka's signature all-female cast in the Kander & Ebb show about corruption of the courts and media in ...

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 ...

In the late ’50s and early ’60s, whenever I visited Japan, I never fail to watch the Takarazuka Revue. The show was fabulous, participated in by 400 all-girl performers, held at the Grand Theater, ...

The Takarazuka Revue was formed by railroad tycoon Ichizo Kobayashi in 1913 to help draw tourists to hot springs of Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture. You could say the idea was a bust, as to this day the ...