Articles for National Theater

Chinese production of Les Miserables set for national tour
10 months, 1 week ago

Chinese production of Les Miserables set for national tour

China Daily  

Liu Ye and his wife, Anais Martane, attend the news event in Shanghai for the kickoff of a national tour of Chinese theater production Les Miserables. A new Chinese theater production of Victor Hugo's Les Miserables announced the kickoff of a national tour in Shanghai on Tuesday. Produced by Magnificent Culture Co Ltd, the play, starring renowned Chinese film actor …

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Chinese production of Les Miserables set for national tour
10 months, 1 week ago

Chinese production of Les Miserables set for national tour

China Daily  

Liu Ye and his wife, Anais Martane, attend the news event in Shanghai for the kickoff of a national tour of Chinese theater production Les Miserables. A new Chinese theater production of Victor Hugo's Les Miserables announced the kickoff of a national tour in Shanghai on Tuesday. Produced by Magnificent Culture Co Ltd, the play, starring renowned Chinese film actor …

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His world's a stage
2 years, 4 months ago

His world's a stage

China Daily  

Tian Lei is renowned as an actor specializing in martial art skills, depicting roles including the legendary Monkey King. Acting was, is and always will be the first love of National Peking Opera Company's new vice-president, Chen Nan reports. Not far from Mei's address, the first theater for Peking Opera performances came up in 1954, five years after the founding …

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Coming to a theater near you: $3 movie tickets for one day
2 years, 4 months ago

Coming to a theater near you: $3 movie tickets for one day

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — For one day, movie tickets will be just $3 in the vast majority of American theaters as part of a newly launched “National Cinema Day” to lure moviegoers during a quiet spell at the box office. Before each showing, ticket buyers will be shown a sizzle reel of upcoming films from A24, Amazon Studios, Disney, Focus Features, …

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Ten reasons to be grateful in another sputtering theatrical year
3 years ago

Ten reasons to be grateful in another sputtering theatrical year

LA Times  

A year that begins with an insurrection isn’t off to an auspicious start. But it wasn’t until I sat outside in the Fountain Theatre’s parking lot for Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ “An Octoroon” in June that I truly felt like an audience member again. Fake Friends’ “This American Wife” Fake Friends makes digital theater the way Charles Ludlam might have made it …

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Shunyi Grand Theater opens with national opera
3 years, 7 months ago

Shunyi Grand Theater opens with national opera

China Daily  

Shunyi Grand Theater opens in Beijing on May 30. Shunyi Grand Theater officially opened Sunday with the launch of week-long events, announced its operators in Shunyi, Beijing. "I'd been waiting for this moment for a very long time," said an audience member surnamed Liu from Shunyi, who took her seat in the theater to watch the opera. Following the move …

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Cultural revenue stream
4 years, 7 months ago

Cultural revenue stream

China Daily  

Scenes from Love Forever, a Chinese musical adapted from The Legend of the White Snake, in which Fahai, a Buddhist monk, tries to capture the snake's spirit; Xu Xian, a kind young man, marries Bai Suzhen, the White Snake spirit, which is played by Sun Yuan, a singer with the China National Opera and Dance Drama Theater. In a bid …

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Albanian protesters, police clash over theater demolition
4 years, 7 months ago

Albanian protesters, police clash over theater demolition

Associated Press  

TIRANA, Albania — Albanian police clashed Sunday with opposition supporters who were protesting the demolition of the country’s crumbling National Theater building in the capital. The government’s decision to destroy the old National Theater, built by Italians when they occupied Albania during World War II, was opposed by artists and others who wanted it renovated instead. President Ilir Meta denounced …

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