Tag «THEATER»

Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center releases eight plays for 2020

An audience member (right) joins an actress in a play presented on Tuesday, making herself part of the play.Photos: Chen Shasha/GT Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center (SDAC) released eight of its plays for 2020 on Tuesday. This year, the release was done in a “dramatic” way by turning the whole of the center into an interactive …

Peking Opera returns to London

Promotional photos for the China Peking Opera Company’s London performance. Photo: Courtesy of Sinolink Productions China National Peking Opera Company (CNPOC) returns to London’s Sadler’s Wells Theatre from Wednesday to Thursday this year. It will be the fifth consecutive year that the CNPOC has come to London, and the company will perform two exceptional shows …

International theater festival in Xichang, Southwest China’s Sichuan Province, bridges East and West

Promotional material for Anywhere Photo: Li Hao/GT An actor gives a traditional face-changing performance in Sichuan Province. Photo: Li Hao/GT When the lights in the theater go dark, the audience falls completely silent in anticipation. For many, this will be the first time they have had the opportunity to appreciate a Western theater work, as …

French ice puppet show shines at Daliangshan International Theater Festival

Photo: Li Hao/GT  “Anywhere”, a French puppet show witnessed a houseful audience on its debut at the ongoing international theater festival in Xichang, Southwest China’s Sichuan Province on Saturday.  The award-winning “Anywhere” chronicles the excursion of life through the trails of Oedipus on the Road, a visual poem authored by Henry Bauchau, which made the …

Turkmenistan stages first opera after 19-year ban comes to an end

Promotional material of Pagliacci Photo: IC Reclusive Turkmenistan staged its first foreign opera on Tuesday, nearly 19 years after the Central Asian country’s founding president banned the art form as “incompatible with Turkmen mentality.” A state theater in the capital Ashgabat was packed for the staging of 19th century Italian composer Ruggero Leoncavallo’s opera Pagliacci …