Best bets
TAO Dance Theater - NCPA Dance Festival 2015
Date: Oct 29-31 - 7:30 pm
Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts, Beijing
Price: 80-480 yuan
TAO is the second Chinese modern dance company after Guangdong Modern Dance Company in 1997 to be invited to the American Dance Festival to perform, and the first Chinese company to be invited to be in-residence for the 6-week festival. In 2012, TAO was invited to perform at Lincoln Center Festival, and was the first Chinese modern dance company invited to perform in the Spring Dance Festival at Sydney Opera House. TAO continues to tour internationally to major venues and festivals, including "Novell Dance Series" in Taipei, invited by renowned Asian choreographer Lin Hwai-Min.
Date: Oct 10-31 - 7:15 pm
Venue: The National Theater
Price: 100-1,680 yuan
War Horse is a play based on the book of the same name by children's writer Michael Morpurgo, adapted for stage by Nick Stafford. Originally Morpurgo thought they must be mad to try to make a play from his best-selling 1982 novel; nonetheless, the play was a success. The play's West End and Broadway productions are directed by Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris; it features life-size horse puppets by the Handspring Puppet Company of South Africa, with "horse choreography" by Toby Sedgwick.
Date: Nov 1 - 3 pm/7 pm
Venue: Rulun Lecture Hall of Renmin University
Price: 80-580 yuan
Shadow theater Fireflies performs on numerous local, regional and international scenes, takes part in various festivals, competitions, ceremonies, awards and other activities. The theater was a member of the Closing Ceremony III Odessa International Film Festival, awarding ceremony of the International Festival Competition Choice of the year 2012 International Festival of Contemporary Art GogolFest 2012 Festival Qatar Spring Festival 2013, the opening ceremony of the Odessa International Film Festival IV.
Date: Oct 24-Nov 7
Venue: Shanghai Himalayas Museum
Price: 30-400 yuan
The exhibition will feature Chinese poetry, one of Hwang Young-sung's latest series, together with a selection of works he has been working on since 2000. Upon first sight, these works may strike viewers as vivid and brisk color blocks. But if you take a closer look, you realize that the color blocks are in fact composed of Chinese characters, and to be more specific, classic Chinese poems. Though they seem a bit haphazard, their disorder is neither messy nor coarse. In other words, a peculiar kind of chaotic order could be perceived from within.
Date: Oct 24-25 - 8 pm
Venue: Guangzhou Opera House
Price: 280-1,680 yuan
Based on the 1910 horror novel by Gaston Leroux, which has been adapted into countless films, The Phantom of the Opera follows a deformed composer who haunts the grand Paris Opera House. Sheltered from the outside world in an underground cavern, the lonely, romantic man tutors and composes operas for Christine, a gorgeous young soprano star-to-be. As Christine's star rises, and a handsome suitor from her past enters the picture, the Phantom grows mad, terrorizing the opera house owners and company with his murderous ways. Still, Christine finds herself drawn to the mystery man. Audiences agree - The Phantom of the Opera is Broadway's longest-running hit. Ever.
Puppet Musical from Hometown of Music - The Sound of Music
Date: Oct 30-34 - 7:30 pm
Venue: Shanghai Children Art Theater
Price: 80-480 yuan
The original Broadway production, starring Mary Martin and Theodore Bikel, opened on Nov 16, 1959. This production was a five time winner at the 14th Tony Awards, out of nine nominations. And this year is the 50 anniversary of the release of the film. The scene of the film and the Colonel's home is in Salzburg, Austria, the birthplace of the music of Mozart and other musicians of the Holy land. Do you still remember the film that humorous and funny puppet show "lonely shepherd"? It was inspired by the Salzburg puppet theatre. This time by the Salzburg puppet theatre in the form of puppet show, to reproduce the sound of the music, the classic story and music, it can be said to be authentic Austria style.
