Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- And Then There Was One: Tokyo's Three Top Acting Companies -- Three K Factors: Kenkyū Kai, Kōryū, and Kaomise -- Kansai Kabuki at the Crossroads -- Communists, Teenage Girls, and Little Theatres: Three Alternative Kabuki Troupes -- When Tōhō Got its Mojo -- Yakusha or Haiyū?: Kabuki Actors at the Crossroads -- Changing Names, Memorial Flames -- Shūmei of the Century: The Danjūrō Dilemma -- Till Death Do Your Parts: Debuts, Education, and Mortality -- From the Ginza to Broadway: Kabuki Goes Global -- Playhouses, Programming, and Plays -- Chronology of Programs and Events, May 1952 to December 1965 -- Study Groups: 1952-1965 -- Traditional Plays and the Zenshin-za -- The Katabami-za at the Sumida Gekijō and Ōji Hall: 1952-1964 -- Kōshirō VIII and Tō...