Katsura Sunshine's Rakugo

First Preview: Sep 19, 2019

Opening Date: Sep 28, 2019

Closing Date: Dec 13, 2025

Running Time: 01:15

https://www.rakugo.lol/broadway

Playing @

New World Stages

340 West 50th Street New York City, NY 10019

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With a minimal set, Katsura Sunshine's Rakugo features a lone storyteller dressed in kimono, kneeling on a cushion, using only a fan and a hand towel for props, who entertains the audience with a comic monologue followed by a traditional story.

Recently the emcee of the G20 in Osaka, Katsura Sunshine’s Rakugo comes to Times Square. Rakugo is the 400-year-old Japanese traditional art of comic storytelling, and currently there are only 800 Rakugo Masters. Hailing from Canada and called the King of Kimono Comedy, Sunshine is the only Western Rakugo Master in the world and star of NHK Worldwide. He is hilarious, charming, universally funny and yet so very Japanese. Sunshine is the perfect performer to bridge the gap between the East and the West, in a hilarious style.

Age Guidance: 14

Show Notes: No Intermission

Audience Advisory:

Children under the age of 4 are not permitted in the theatre.

Performance Schedule:

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Cast

Katsura Sunshine

Written by

Katsura Sunshine

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Accessibility:

Box Office

Street to Lobby (Box Office): no steps, ground floor. Box Office windows are wheelchair accessible

Curb Ramps

None available

Restroom

Men's & Women’s (Orchestra Level-North): multiple stalls & 1 accessible stall, changing table. Men’s & Women’s (Mezzanine Level-South): multiple stalls & 1 accessible stall. Gender Neutral (Orchestra Level-Center): single stall

Directions Subway

C/E to 50th Street, 1 to 50th Street, N/R/Q/W to 49th Street, B/D/F/M to 47-50th Streets-Rockefeller Center

Elevator\Escalator

Everything is accessible with escalators and an elevator but the space itself is large, requiring a bit of walking

Entrance

Complex has a street level entrance, with elevators. The theatres are located underground with three levels: the main floor, the mezzanine level (one floor down), and the orchestra level (another floor down)