Kafka on the Shore Steppenwolf Downstairs Theater, Chicago; 510 seats; $70 top Production: A Steppenwolf Theater Company presentation of a play in two acts adapted and directed by Frank Galati ...

This year’s visitors include Japan’s Ninagawa Company, which returns this year with a startling stage version of Haruki Murakami’s surreal novel, “Kafka on the Shore.” As visualized by ...

By THR Staff Kafka on the Shore Play, New - H 2015 Both are on a desperate search — Kafka, for his mother and sister who left the family years earlier, and Nakata for a missing cat. The latter ...

KAFKA ON THE SHORE is directed by ensemble member Frank Galati. The design team includes: James Schuette (sets), Mara Blumenfeld (costumes), James F. Ingalls (lights) and Andre Pluess and Ben ...

So the Lincoln Center Festival deserves credit for taking on this staging of Murakami’s “Kafka on the Shore,” with its talking cats, mysterious “gateway stone,” occasional animal cruelty ...

A fluid journey where time is relative and nothing is mundane, Kafka on the Shore is intense, engaging, and erotic. With this play, Spooky Action Theatre takes the audience to the edge and back again.

Cats, specifically, talking cats, play a significant role in Haruki Murakami’s hypnotic new novel, “Kafka on the Shore.” One of Murakami’s main characters, old Mr. Nakata, can speak with them.

Is there anything more boring than hearing about someone else’s dream? And is there anything more miraculous than having one of your own? The voluptuous pleasure of Haruki Murakami’s ...

The surreal power of Haruki Murakami's novel comes through intermittently in this visually stunning production. At three solid hours, the show loses considerable magic by cramming in too many non ...