Kunqu and Peking Opera maestro Mei Lanfang (1894-1961) gave a famous performance at Shanghai's Majestic Theater in 1946.Pai Hsien-yong was there.
Chinese performer He Hongqing can change his facial expressions, and make up, on stage in a flash, but it's not due to skills learned at drama school.
Elvis Presley's legacy will be marked in force next year in a 75th anniversary birthday celebration featuring a new Cirque du Soleil production, movie marathons, a Facebook application and a cruise.
If you haven't gone to a movie, jazz concert or an art exhibit in recent years, you are in steadily growing company.
Magic moments on stage demonstrate wonder and splendor.
A Chinese American filmmaker will direct the 2010 Shanzhai (copycat) Spring Festival Gala Party, but will not be paid for his work, the show's producer said yesterday.
A Rembrandt painting unseen in public for nearly 40 years sold for a record 20.2 million pounds ($33.2 million) at auction in London on Tuesday, the highest ever paid at auction for the 17th century artist.
Georges Bizet's "Carmen," a tale of love, jealousy and murder, opened the season on Monday at Milan's La Scala to applause for the singers but boos for the creator of its sparse staging, Emma Dante.
Luminaries from the worlds of music and film were feted by President Barack Obama and a black-tie audience of artists and political heavyweights on Sunday at the 2009 Kennedy Center Honors.
To celebrate the 160th anniversary of the arrival of Chinese immigration in Peru, the Embassy of Peru in Beijing is holding an exhibition in the Imperial City Museum of art.
"One of the big aims of the theater is to show Chinese people great stage plays and dramas from the Western world," explained Penghao Theater's manager Jennifer Liang.
Hong Kong artist Christie To is only 16, but her aspirations to stardom are rooted in a centuries-old art form fighting extinction: Cantonese opera.
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