Artists and audiences know little about those that review their work. Here, eleven of the country's leading critics introduce themselves. Plus: three shows to see next week.

はとさん（@810ibara ）主催のぽっぽアドベント2025、12月4日の担当せりです。今年のテーマは「ゆきてかえりし物語」。心の原点回帰について書けたら素敵だろうなあと思いつつ、普通に今年行った旅のことを書きました。

A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter The playwright Tom Stoppard, whose playful erudition dazzled the theatregoing world for decades, has died aged 88. One of a select band of writers from any discipline to earn his own adjective – “Stoppardian” – in the Oxford English Dictionary, he delighted in the most improbable juxtapositions: philosophy and gymnastics in Jumpers (1972); early 19th-century landscape gardening and chaos theory in Arcadia (1993); rock music, dissident Czech academics and the love poetry of Sappho in Rock ’n’ Roll (2006). Continue reading...

兩廳院是臺灣最成熟的國際級藝術中心，也是亞洲具指標性的當代劇場，無論當代或傳統、原生或外來，都在兩廳院的舞臺上共生，且深受臺灣觀眾青睞。這片土地的自由與開放讓多元文化彼此對話，自由帶來空間，開放帶來思考，是兩廳院存在的立基，也讓兩廳院成為亞洲最自由與開放的文化場景。

ミュージカル『ロマンティックス・アノニマス』 2026年3月　東京建物Brillia HALLにて上演決定！