Stage carnival

This year's Lin Zhaohua Theater Arts Festival will open with Russian director Lev Dodin's epic play, Brothers and Sisters. Chen Nan reports.

The annual Lin Zhaohua Theater Arts Festival is an important cultural event in China that brings well-known foreign plays to audiences here.

Initiated by established theater director Lin Zhaohua in 2010, the festival will run from March through September, with 16 productions to be staged in Beijing, Tianjin and Harbin this year. Artists from Russia, Poland, Germany, France, Italy and China are expected to participate.