The Shanghai Kunqu Opera Troupe will celebrate 40 years of its founding with a series of performances at the Shanghai Grand Theater over Feb 23-28.
The Northern Kunqu Opera Theater will soon debut its show adapted from Chinese tragedy The Orphan of Zhao.
Shaoju, also known as Shaoxing Opera, is a subtype of the "luantan" opera. With a history of nearly 400 years, Shaoju has had more than 400 programmes.
The Shanghai Institute of Visual Art has made 25 animated movies in a Chinese ink style about Peking Opera and hopes to show them in schools.
Tian Qinxin's drama Fayuans, based on the novel by Li Ao of the same name and featuring China's short-lived Hundred Days' Reform in 1898, will be on stage till December 20 at Tianqiao Performing Arts Center in Beijing.
"The Great Revenge" tells a famed story of ancient China about a king who seems to right a wrong. The play will run in late October as part of the 17th China Shanghai International Arts Festival.
An ancient tomb of the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 24) was discovered at a construction site in Kaifu district of Changsha, capital of Central China's Hunan province, Sept 15, 2015.
Huangluquan Bang drama has been passed from mouth to mouth by generations in 500 years in Zhangqiu city, Central China's Henan province. People often give performances in different villages in the slack farming seasons.
Traditional Tibetan opera, a 2006 national-level intangible cultural heritage, still attract the locals now in Tibet.
Aside from box office winner Monkey King: Hero is Back, there are many more adaptations of the classic Chinese epic, Journey to the West.
As a very controversial drama director in China, Lin Zhaohua is one of the most significant figures in Chinese drama history you can't ignore - whether you love him or not.
Bai Xianyong, a famous short storywriter has always embraced a Kunqu complex.
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