Listings

The Producers in Shenzhen

Date: Jan 18-21 - 7:30 pm

Venue: Nanshan Culture & Sports Center Grand Theater

Price: 180-880 yuan

Based on Mel Brooks' much loved Academy Award-winning movie, The Producers is a hilarious musical comedy that has taken Broadway and the West End by storm, winning a record-breaking 12 Tony Awards and 3 Olivier Awards. Impoverished by a string of flops, New York producer Max Bialystock recruits timid accountant Leo Bloom to help him pull off Broadway's greatest scam. They aim to produce the worst show ever and run away with millions, but they soon learn that show business can kick you in the teeth.

Contact: 021-5456-2471

The Metropolitan Opera Opera Film La Sonnambula in Beijing

Date: Jan 20 - 1:30 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 60 yuan

Just as a young woman is about to marry her sweetheart, she is discovered - by the entire village, to say nothing of her fiance - asleep in the bedroom of a stranger. It takes the young man two acts to figure out that sleepwalking is to blame, and everything ends happily. Natalie Dessay as Amina and Juan Diego Florez as Elvino deliver bel canto magic and vocal fireworks in Mary Zimmerman's 2009 production. The Tony Award-winning director transfers Bellini's bucolic tale to a rehearsal room in contemporary New York, where an opera company rehearses La Sonnambula - and where the singers are truly in love with each other.

Contact: 010-6655-0000

A Coproduction of NCPA and Li Liuyi Studio King Lear in Beijing

Date: Jan 20-28 - 7:30 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 180-680 yuan

King Lear is NCPA's third production of a Shakespearean play, after A Midsummer Night's Dream and Hamlet, this time in cooperation with Li Liuyi's Drama Estudio in Beijing. As a tribute to the master playwright, the NCPA has extended a special invitation to the script supervisor of the Royal Shakespeare Company to coach the actors, and selected Yang Shipeng's rendering as the rehearsal script. German-born set designer, Michael Simon and Academy Award winner for Best Costume Design, Emi Wada combine talents to recreate the bard's cast of characters and ruined palace. Additionally, the renowned theater actor, Pu Cunxin, gives a stark portrayal of Lear's departure from the height of glory and lapse into vagrancy. Lear's three daughters' vastly different personalities are brought to life on stage.

Contact: 010-6655-0000