Toronto native Katsura Sunshine has experienced setbacks as a rakugo storyteller, the 400-year-old Japanese comedic art form, but he has not given up on a long-held dream to build a rakugo theater in the Big Apple.Sunshine, who studied the traditional and unique form of verbal entertainment in Japan as an apprentice to rakugo master Katsura Bunshi VI -- then Katsura Sanshi -- for three years from 2008, recently began an off-Broadway run at the New World Stages in Manhattan."I would love to bring rakugo to as many places as possible -- big theaters -- or as many passionate theatergoers as po…READ FULL ARTICLE
