A fellow user on Twitter recently asked the official account for the YoRHa stage plays whether or not the up-coming Blu-ray release will have English subtitles, and here was their reply:
sorry. only Japanese version
— 舞台「ヨルハ」公式 (@YoRHa_STAGE) June 22, 2018
Unfortunate for sure but not entirely unforeseen. I have yet witnessed a release by DearStage that includes any subtitles whatsoever. Then again, my only experience is with the initial DVD release of the YoRHa Ver.1.0 stage play, which was strictly a barebones release with not special extras. The video itself was horribly rendered with interlacing codecs that made it sort of ugly to even watch. *sigh* Here’s to hoping at least the production quality of this release will be better…
There could still be hope for an international release that includes English subtitles (and maybe others as well), depending on how well this first release does.
Lastly, if you look closely at the image that they posted, you can see that the region encoding of the Blu-ray is “region free”… which would make this playable internationally. That’s at least one small step that they took to make at the very least importing it more plausible…
I also tweeted the following information:
Currently, the YoRHa Musical and Boys Stage Play Blu-ray does NOT come with English subtitles even though it will be region free… #YoRHa #YoRHaMusical #YoRHaBoys #NieR #NierAutomata #ヨルハ #音楽劇ヨルハ #少年ヨルハ #ニーア #ニーアオートマタ https://t.co/sJjj4TpIZk
— Rekka Alexiel (@RekkaAlexiel) June 22, 2018
It amused me that the official YoRHa Twitter account liked it. lol