Phone +81 3-3366-4020 | ||
Address 3 Chome-1-2 Hyakunincho, 新宿区 Tokyo 169-0073, Japan Similar Imperial Theatre, Shin‑Ōkubo Station, Aoyama Theatre, Akasaka ACT Theater, Umeda Arts Theater | ||
The Panasonic Globe Theatre in Tokyo, Japan, was designed by Isozaki Arata and opened in 1988 to showcase local and international productions of Shakespeare's plays. Guest companies and artists have included the British Royal National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, Ingmar Bergman, Peter Brook, Barry Kyle and Robert Lepage, as well as such Kabuki stars as Bando Tamasaburo (Lady Macbeth), and Ichikawa Somegoro (Kabuki Hamlet).
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