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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Guardian has reported on the ways in which Takarazuka Music School is changing decades-old rules in order modernize and shift with the times. Read the full story HERE. The school trains its ...

Ami Kawatani, valedictorian of the graduating class, is seen in Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture, on March 2, 2023, in this photo provided by Takarazuka Music School. TAKARAZUKA, Hyogo -- Forty students ...

It is late afternoon and 18 teenage girls, wearing simple jackets and long, gray flannel skirts that reveal just the barest trace of their white cotton stockings, file across the ”bridge of tears” ...

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 ...

The school's motto is "Purity, Honesty, Beauty." It sounds like there are other areas of the school which need reviewing as well. . . . . I must admit, after visiting the Takarazuka theatre in Tokyo ...

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 ...

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 ...