In April 2026, Lim Beng Choo worked with the visiting Kurokawa Noh troupe in their Singapore performance by giving two lectures on Kurokawa Noh and translated the supertitles for their theatrical debut in Singapore.
January-February 2026, Elizabeth Oyler served as consultant for Pittsburgh Opera’s Curlew River, a performance of Benjamin Britten’s “Parable for Church Performance” based on the noh Sumidagawa. She also gave two pre-show lectures about the noh and Britten’s choice of noh as the foundation for this haunting meditation on loss written in the shadow of WWII. Performed in the magnificent Calvary Episcopal Church, Shadyside, Curlew River was a moving exploration of a mother’s search for her missing son.
In May 2025, Lim Beng Choo led a study trip for National University of Singpore students to see Noh live in Japan at the Kawamura Noh stage.
In April, 2025, Elizabeth Oyler worked with the Japan America Society of Pennsylvania welcomed back Tom Lee, creator of Akutagawa (March, 2023) to offer a lecture-demonstration on kuruma-ningyō (“cart puppets”) for our students and the public.
In March 2025, Elizabeth Oyler liaised with noh actors Uzawa Hisa and Uzawa Hikaru to curate events to accompany the University of Pittsburgh’s University Library System's celebration of the gift by the late professors emeriti Richard and Mae Smethurst of extensive holdings of Tsukioka Kogyō’s noh woodblock prints, now part of the Kōgyo: the art of noh digital collections. In addition to participating in the celebration, the Uzawas also conducted a movement and chant workshop for University of Pittsburgh students and, along with Oyler, gave a very well-attended lecture-demonstration based on the noh play Kiyotsune at the Kelly Strayhorn theater.
In September 2024, Lim Beng Choo hosted the Yamamoto troupe on the National University of Singapore campus and did a lecture demonstration and workshop for students.
In April 2023, Takeuchi Akiko gave a talk at Stanford about a future project: For most teenagers Noh is something just to watch and get bored by (if they ever have an occasion to see it); workshops by professional Noh actors are accessible to relatively very few of them. Akiko, as an amateur practitioner, is hoping to create, in the future, an intermedia platform that will help students perform an abridged version of Noh at school, without the hands-on help of professional Noh performers.
In February 2023, in cooperation with the Japan America Society of Pennsylvania, Elizabeth Oyler helped bring Tom Lee and Nishikawa Koryu V’s Akutagawa, a multi-media cart puppet (kuruma-ningyō) play based on the stories of Akutagawa Ryunosuke to Pittsburgh for two shows and a series of workshops.
In September 2019, Elizabeth Oyler hosted the world premiere of Theatre Nohgaku’s English-language noh play Gettysburg and an accompanying symposium that brought together actors and scholars to discuss the possibilities of noh for telling stories of war and trauma in non-Japanese contexts. The event was partially supported by a grant from the Toshiba International Foundation.