Theater Commons Tokyo is a new theater that expands on the concepts of theater as both a space and a medium. Harnessing theatrical ideas and using theater within everyday life and the city, it aspires to propose an ideal future model of a theater.

Presenting the work of a series of artists, Theater Commons Tokyo launches a theater space within the city where, through the imagination of theater, diverging elements and eras intersect, and dialogue and discoveries transform the everyday into the unknown. It features a series of lecture performances, socially engaged art events, workshops and talks that apply theatrical ideas not only to theater itself but also to architecture, urban studies, literature, visual art, and welfare.

The first iteration Theater Commons Tokyo opens in January 2017. In partnership with Minato City, it takes place at venues around the ward as part of the Minato City Culture Program. It is organized by an executive committee comprising Taiwan Cultural Center, Goethe-Institut Tokyo, Institut français du Japon, and Arts Commons Tokyo. As we head toward 2020 and the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games, Theater Commons Tokyo will develop in response to the changing times and gradually work to create a theater space in the city.