Chinese Theatre Works
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Click here for a schedule of upcoming performances. |
Chinese Theatre Works is a non-profit theatre company whose mission is to preserve and promote the traditional Chinese performing arts (including opera, shadow theatre, puppetry, dance and music); to create new works that bridge Eastern and Western aesthetics and forms; and to foster understanding and appreciation of Chinese culture in audiences, students, artists and educators around the globe.
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| We are proud to announce that Chinese Theatre Works' Co-Artistic & Technical Director, Stephen Kaplin, was awarded a 2006 Henry Hewes Award for Notable Effects by the American Theatre Wing. He won the award, one of the highest honors in U.S. theatrical design, for his work designing and constructing the puppets for Ping Chong's acclaimed 2005 show Cathay: Three Tales of China. Cathay was a unique collaboration between artists in New York, Seattle and Xian, China; working on the show gave Stpehen the opportunity to work closely with and learn from traditional Chinese puppeteers in Xian as they developed the piece. The Hewes awards, originally the Maharam Awards, were established in 1964 as the first design awards allowing Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway shows to compete equally. Stephen joins Ping Chong, Peter Schumann, Julie Taymor, Theodora Skipitares, Paul Zaloom, and many other longtime friends and colleagues among the noted artists who have recieved Hewes Awards. | ||
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| At the First International Shadow Play Art Festival in Tangshan, China, Chinese Theatre Works - the only company from the U.S. invited - won four awards. Our new production, Three Women, Many Plays, won Best Writing and Direction; our two storytellers, Co-Artistic Director Stephen Kaplin and Director Emerita Jo Humphrey, won Best Narration; and the company was honored for Excellence in Performance and Best Short Plays for both Three Women and Tiger Tales, our other contribution to the festival. | ||
| Upcoming Public Performances | ||
| Production | Venue | Date & Time |
| The Birth of Monkey King | China Institute 125 East 65th Street, Manhattan |
April 6, 2008 1:30 pm |
| Ti-Oh-Oh | Philadelphia Children's Theatre 2030 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA |
April 16-19 & 23-26, 2008 |
| Two Horses | St. Ann's Warehouse 38 Water Street, Dumbo Brooklyn |
May 29 & 30, 2008 7:00 pm |
| Toy Theatre Peony Pavilion | Walt Disney Concert Hall 111 South Grand Ave. Downtown LA |
June 14 & 15, 2008 11am, 1pm, 3pm & 5pm |
| Ti-Oh-Oh & Wu-Sung versus Tiger |
Yeshiva University Museum (Center for Jewish History) 15 West 16th Street, Flatiron district Manhattan |
June 22, 2008 12:30pm |
| Excerpt from The Legend of Whitesnake | Solar 1 2420 FDR Drive, Service Road East Manhattan |
July 17, 2008 6:00 pm |
| Peking Opera &Tiger Tales | Adirondack Community College 640 Bay Road Queensbury, NY |
August 1, 2008 11:30 am |
| Chinese Opera and Musical Performance & Tiger Tales |
Untermyer Park 945 North Broadway Yonkers |
August 30, 2008 7:30pm |
| Tiger Tales | Shorin Auditorium Kimmel Center, NYU 60 Washington Square South, Manhattan |
December 13, 2008 3:00 pm |
| The Birth of the Monkey King | Tobias Theatre Indianapolis Museum of Art 4000 Michigan Rd. Indianapolis, IN |
December 28, 2008 2:00 pm |
| The Birth of Monkey King | Meyer Auditorium Freer+Sackler Galleries of Smithsonian Institute Jefferson Drive at 12th Street, SW, Washington D.C. |
May 7 & 8, 2009 |
Chinese Theatre Works
34-23 Steinway Street, #241
Long Island City, NY 11101
(718) 392-3493
ChineseThtrWks@aol.com
| All original images, characters & content on this site © 2001-2007 Chinese Theatre Works, Inc. design © 2007 boychic aka d. lang/levitsky |
Last update: 9/11/2007 |