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Cool for Cats
Directed by Trevor Nunn, the Broadway musical Cats comes to China for a month-long performance.
Best of the West comes to the capital
Western classical music fans around the world are bound to envy Beijing when 76-year-old Claudio Abbado picks up the baton to reprise this summer's Lucerne Festival at the National Center for the Performing Arts (NCPA).
Leftover ladies
The social phenomenon of Chinese single women is wonderfully explained in The Leftover Lady (Sheng Nu Lang), which is now playing at the Beijing Oriental Pioneer Theater. The story is told from the viewpoint of a fabulous woman, who is 29 years old, but still unmarried.
Thanks again for the Memory
Cats, the phenomenal musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, will return to Beijing for eight shows this month. This is the third China tour of the Really Useful Company's production and China Performing Arts Agency (CPAA) - current promoter of the China Tour says that it could be the last time Cats is seen in China in the foreseeable future.
Veteran dramatist to stage Faust
The National Center for the Performing Arts will present Goethe's seminal work Faust under veteran director Xu Xiaozhong.
Dancing swan
The San Francisco Ballet, the oldest professional ballet company in the US, will debut in China with several performances of the timeless classic Swan Lake. Shanghai's Tan Yuanyuan will be dancing the lead role on the first and third nights.
High-power performance
Taiwanese two-man band Power Station rocked the stage of Beijing's Century Theater last week. Its aboriginal singers treated their fans to hot favorites such as Goodbye My Lover, The Day after Tomorrow's Tomorrow, Happy by Your Side, as well as some new songs from their latest album, Continue to Whirl.
An opera a day, keeps clouds away
After being compared to Susan Boyle, who went from obscurity to stardom in the recent British TV talent show Britain's Got Talent, Liu Meiye had only one question.
Dancing shadows
Stuffed with fiberglass, a life-sized figure is covered with flowers, one fist clenched while the other carries a pistol.
Shanghai:Medieval makeover for expo-friendly opera house
The striking songs of Carmina Burana, a cantata written by German composer Carl Orff in the 1930s, will launch the Shanghai Oriental Art Center's new season next month together with a dance show by the Shanghai Opera House.
Hangzhou Listing:circus
Established in 1880,Nikulin Circus is one of the oldest troupes in Russia. It is based at the theater built on Tsvetnoy Boulevard in Moscow, and also tours around the world.
Tianjin Listing:concert
A concert for the family will be given by Chinese veteran composer, pianist and conductor Shi Shucheng, and his twin daughters Shi Wei and Shi Rong. Born in 1946 in Beijing, Shi graduated from the piano department of the Central Conservatory of Music in 1969. Shi is famed for the masterpiece Yellow River Concerto.
Nanjing Listing:theater
Hans Christian Andersen's classic fairy storyThe Steadfast Tin Soldier will be put on stage in Nanjing by the Beijing Children's Art Theater.
Rumba in the (urban) jungle
"Burn the Floor" is bringing its spectacular mixture of Latin and ballroom dancing to the Shanghai Grand Theater once again with four gala shows on Sept 18-19 and Oct 6-7.
