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June 2019
Kunqu Play ： The Jade Hairpin 全本【玉簪記】
Freer and Sackler Galleries Exhibition "The Last Empresses of China: 1644-1912" (紫鸾金凤：清代宫廷皇后艺术与生活大展 2018-19年美国巡展) Shanghai Kunqu Troupe 上海崑劇團 Meyer Auditorium, Freer and Sackler Galleries Independence Ave at 12th St. SW, Washington, DC 20560 ½ block from Smithsonian Metro Stop The Play The Jade Hairpin玉簪記 is a chuanqi 传奇 play by Gao Lian, written around 1570, some seventy years before the fall of the Ming dynasty. The play is divided into 33 scenes, but it would always have been common for scenes to be presented individually as…
Find out more »Kunqu Theater: “Matchmaking” and “Fleeing Down the Mountain” 崑曲精華折子戲【蝴蝶梦：說親】【孽海记：下山】
The Freer and Sackler Galleries Exhibition "The Last Empresses of China: 1644-1912” (紫鸾金凤：清代宫廷皇后艺术与生活大展 2018-19年美国巡展) Presents Shanghai Kunqu Troupe 上海崑劇團 Sackler Pavilion, Freer and Sackler Galleries Independence Ave at 12th St. SW, Washington, DC 20560 ½ block from Smithsonian Metro Stop The Program The Butterfly Dream: Matchmaking 【蝴蝶梦：说亲】 Ocean of Sin: Fleeing Down the Mountain【孽海记：下山】 Watch Live Performance on Smithsonian's Facebook Synopsis Shen Yili and Hu Gang 沈昳丽、胡刚 I. The Butterfly Dream: Matchmaking 【蝴蝶梦：说亲】 “Matchmaking” is a short and humorous scene taken from a much longer and…
Find out more »Kunqu Theater: “Matchmaking” and “Fleeing Down the Mountain” 崑曲精華折子戲【蝴蝶梦：說親】【孽海记：下山】
The Freer and Sackler Galleries Exhibition "The Last Empresses of China: 1644-1912” (紫鸾金凤：清代宫廷皇后艺术与生活大展 2018-19年美国巡展) Presents Shanghai Kunqu Troupe 上海崑劇團 Sackler Pavilion, Freer and Sackler Galleries Independence Ave at 12th St. SW, Washington, DC 20560 ½ block from Smithsonian Metro Stop The Program The Butterfly Dream: Matchmaking 【蝴蝶梦：说亲】 Ocean of Sin: Fleeing Down the Mountain【孽海记：下山】 Watch Live Performance on Smithsonian's Facebook Synopsis I. The Butterfly Dream: Matchmaking 【蝴蝶梦：说亲】 Shen Yili and Hu Gang 沈昳丽、胡刚 “Matchmaking” is a short and humorous scene taken from a much longer and…
Find out more »November 2021
Anthem Press is delighted to announce the upcoming publication of “Kunqu Masters on Chinese Theatrical Performance” by Josh Stenberg
Kunqu Masters on Chinese Theatrical Performance by Josh Stenberg. Anthem Studies in Theatre and Performance Kunqu is among the oldest and most refined traditions of the family of genres known as xiqu (music-drama or “Chinese opera”). This book consists of translated performer narrations that illuminate how one of the major Chinese theatrical forms has been taught and transmitted over the past century. About this book Kunqu, recognised by UNESCO in 2001 as part of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity,…
Find out more »July 2022
Modern Kunqu Experimental Theater “Talking With” 《聽我細訴》
Video Clips (with CC) Talking With 聽我細訴 Presented by: Springtime Theatre Workshop About Talking With《聽我細訴》 This production is adapted from Talking With...by US playwright Jane Martin, which premiered at the 1982 Humana Festival of New American Plays, an annual event organized by the Actors Theatre of Louisville in Kentucky. Afterwards, it showed at the Manhattan Theatre Club in New York in the same year and has since then been performed around the world. Talking With... is the winner of the…
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