Listings: Shanghai

China Daily | Updated: 2008-02-29 07:12

STAGE

This show, The Forbidden City, presented by famous Chinese dancer, Yangyang and her Dream Dance Workshop, combines jazz, tap, modern dance and ballet. The show describes the great changes women have experienced over the century.

7:15pm, March 7

Majestic Theater, 66 Jiangning Lu

021-6217-4409

The feminist film 20-30-40, starring Rene Liu and Sylva Chang, was popular with audiences at home and abroad. Now the script has been adapted for the stage, Ask Me How Much I Hate You. The drama features the lives of three women at different ages and subtly shows their love, hatred and dreams.

7:15 pm, March 5-April 6

Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center, 288 Anfu Lu

021-6473-0123

Patrick Marber's award-winning Broadway play Closer, made into the 2004 film starring Jude Law, Natalie Portman and Julia Roberts, is now showing at the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center. In this Chinese production, contemporary relationships are delved into, touching on temptation, disloyalty and revenge. In Chinese with English subtitles.

7:15 pm, until March 16

Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center, 288 Anfu Lu

021-6473-0123

CONCERTS

The Icelandic singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Bjork will make her debut performance in Shanghai as part of The Volta Tour.

7:30pm, March 2

Shanghai International Gymnastic Center

021-6481-2938

Known for straight-ahead jazz and stride piano as well as more contemporary New Orleans music, multi-talented artist Harry Connick, Jr. will perform in Shanghai. It will be his second time here after more than a decade-long gap.

7:30 pm, March 9

Shanghai International Gymnastic Center,

777 Wuyi Lu

021-6481-2938

Exhibitions

Twenty-one European artists from 12 countries are interpreting what Europe means to them. The work draws on the theme that Europe is unified by common market forces, yet divided by blindness to the complexities of regional history and economic and social poverty.

10 am-5 pm, until March 16

Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art, 28, Lane 199 Fangdian Lu

021-5033-9801

A variety of works by 11 international photographers is now on display at the Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art. Titled Unseen, the exhibit is comprised of many photos never seen before in China. Categories include photography, documentary works and portraits.

10 am-6 pm, until March 18

MoCA Shanghai, 231 Nanjing Lu W.

021-6327-1282

(China Daily 02/29/2008 page20)