Listings: Shanghai

China Daily | Updated: 2008-04-04 07:31

STAGE

Love Letter produced by the Ke Center for the Contemporary Arts is based on a Broadway hit and a Pulitzer Prize-nominated romantic drama by N. R. Gurney. It tells a touching story of love discovered, lost, and rediscovered. Chinese with English subtitles

7:30 pm, until April 9

288 Anfu Lu, Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center

021-6473-0123

Hamlet is perhaps the most fascinating play ever written. It is also a complex and sometimes frustrating mix of different traditions, beliefs and source material. Directed by Paul Stebbings and produced by the TNT Theatre from Britain, which is acclaimed as one of the most popular international touring theatre companies in the world, Hamlet is one of the most entertaining plays to hit Shanghai this year. English with Chinese subtitles

7:30 pm, until April 12

288 Anfu Lu, Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center

021-6473-0123

CONCERT

Celine Dion, one of the biggest international stars in pop music history, is finally coming to Shanghai. In addition to songs from old albums and the latest Taking Chances, Dion will perform a song written for the Beijing Olympics.

7:30 pm, April 11

666 Tianyaoqiao Lu, Shanghai Stadium

021-6217-2426

Exhibitions

More than 50 oil paintings, installations and video projects created by 19 female artists are on display at Creek Art. The exhibition, Deep Breath, aims to convey the idea that people can turn old thoughts into fresh and creative ideas.

10 am - 5:30 pm, until April 8

101 Chang'an Lu, Creek Art

021-6380-4150

The Empty City Trick is the second solo exhibition of Luo Xiaodong after last year's My World in Tokyo. The subjects the artist has chosen are unorthodox: wrecked airplanes, train crash, tsunami and dead crocodiles.

9:30 am - 6:00 pm, until April 6

No 28, Lane 199 Fangdian Lu, Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art

021-5033-9801

Leung Mee-ping and three other Chinese painters are displaying copied works featuring iconic images suc as Mickey Mouse and Bruce Lee.

10 am - 5 pm, until April 21

3F Three on the Bund, Shanghai Gallery of Art

021-6321-5757

(China Daily 04/04/2008 page20)