From Lawyer to Lyricist/Librettist: An Artist Profile of Jill Ohayon
Jill Ohayon grew up believing there were only two respectable career paths: doctor or lawyer. And...
Read Moreby Morgan Skolnik | Feb 7, 2025 | China, Directing, Musical Theatre, United States of America, Worldwide | 0
Jill Ohayon grew up believing there were only two respectable career paths: doctor or lawyer. And...
Read Moreby Barbara Gabriel | Oct 19, 2024 | Canada, China, Review, Theatre and Politics | 0
“My head feels like a bridge that all of Beijing has been walking over.” The stage is...
Read Moreby Xunnan Li | Aug 30, 2024 | China, Review, Theatre and Politics | 0
In 2024, National Theatre of China in Beijing showcased an experimental avant-garde theatre work “Apple Tree” to talk about the tension in the contemporary marriage between a young Chinese couple. Their tension in the marriage was reflected when the wife is suffering from the unexpected miscarriage.The play is such a transnational one. The director Feng was educated in France when he was young, with established exposure to the French film and theatre. In this play and his previous productions, there are huge amount of Roland’s style of using montage and space changing.
Read Moreby Xunnan Li | Aug 28, 2024 | China, Chinese Theatre Abroad, Edinburgh 2024, Review | 0
Adapted from Lu Xun’s novel, the play takes the same name, “Zhu Jian” (Forging the Swords), and has become one of the most popular productions at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024. The work was brought to Edinburgh by a group of student actors from the Central Academy of Drama in China. Director Fengrui Yang is currently pursuing his doctoral training at the Academy. The play is notable for its re-examination of the theme of vengeance, a central idea in Lu Xun’s novel. Lu Xun is one of the most influential authors in modern China featured with his social criticism writing style in the 1920s.
Read Moreby Xunnan Li | Aug 28, 2024 | China, Chinese Theatre Abroad, Edinburgh 2024, Interview | 0
UK-China Performing Arts (UKCPA), one of the UK’s most prominent Chinese performing arts organizations, plays a crucial role in bridging Chinese and British performing arts cultures. Joanna Hangyu Zhou, the founder of UKCPA and a former national-level dancer with a permanent position at China National Opera & Dance Drama Theater, has emerged as a leading international dance artist in the UK. Following her graduation with a master’s degree from the University of Roehampton in 2016, where she specialized in dance studies, Joanna embarked on a journey of exploring innovations in intercultural Chinese and British performing arts through artistic practice and education.
Read Moreby Fan Yiying | May 27, 2024 | China, Interview, Israel | 0
In the new stage adaptation of the iconic 1934 novel The Border Town, Israeli director Ruth Kanner...
Read Moreby Guo Chenzi | Dec 16, 2023 | China, Essay | 0
With countless adaptations, The Peony Pavilion is China’s answer to Swan Lake. But recent attempts...
Read Moreby Liu Qing | Oct 5, 2023 | China, Review, Theatre and Disability | 0
Zhao Hongcheng has made hundreds of videos about the challenges of life as a disabled person. Now...
Read Moreby Chen Tian | Jul 1, 2023 | China, Chinese Theatre and Opera, Review | 0
Kunqu opera has made a commercial comeback over the past two decades, but a recent adaptation of...
Read Moreby Wu Changchang | Jul 1, 2023 | China, Essay, Musical Theatre | 0
The pandemic was unusually kind to China’s musical theater scene, but an obsession with...
Read Moreby Anna Gryszkiewicz | Apr 14, 2023 | China, Festivals, Review, Transmedia | 0
Even though for the last decade there have been numerous attempts to unleash Chinese theatre’s...
Read Moreby Oliver Giles Zolima CityMag | Jan 2, 2023 | China, Hong Kong, Producing, Theatre and Art | 0
Para Site, one of Hong Kong’s leading contemporary art spaces, is famous for its sprawling,...
Read Moreby Mona Chu Zolima CityMag | Nov 15, 2022 | China, Hong Kong, News, Producing, Theatre and Art | 0
It was well past midnight on October 2, 2021. Current Plans—at the time known as Present...
Read Moreby Rossella Ferrari | Oct 1, 2022 | Adaptation, China, Directing, Festivals, Hong Kong, Poland, Review | 0
Tang Xianzu’s sixteenth-century classic, Peony Pavilion (1598), is a play about boundaries and...
Read Moreby Molly Grogan Zolima CityMag | Jul 10, 2022 | China, Hong Kong, News, Producing, Theatre and Politics | 0
Hong Kong’s branding campaign as “Asia’s World City” sings the praises of its liveability,...
Read Moreby Yizhou Zhang | Jul 5, 2022 | China, LGBTQ+ Theatre, London, Review, Theatre and Disability, United Kingdom | 0
As London celebratess the 50th anniversary of the Pride Parade on July 2, I’m reminded of the only...
Read Moreby Siting Yang | Jun 4, 2022 | Adaptation, China, New York, News, Theatre and Decolonization, United States of America | 0
Sky of Darkness is enjoying its US premiere June 2-12 at Theaterlab in Midtown Manhattan. The...
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