Chinese Theatre Works’ Budaixi Purim Puppetshpeil blends up traditional Chinese glove puppets with old-fashioned Purimshpeil mayhem. The whole mishpuchah will enjoy this cross cultural celebration. Ring in Esther and grog […]
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M Butterfly is a play written by Chinese American playwright David Henry Hwang. When it debuted on Broadway in 1988, it was an instant hit and won the Tony Award
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In the winter of 2015, CTW partnered with the Chicago Field Museum to film a traditional shadow theater production using some of the antique shadow figures from the Pauline Benton Collection.
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Before and After New York, was commissioned for the 2015 Performa Biennale. Created in collaboration with Hong Kong based artists, Royce Ng and Daisy Bisenieks and Kuang-Yu Fong, the project
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Four Seasons is a fusion of classical and traditional Chinese aesthetic genres (poetry, music, dance, opera and puppetry) with contemporary shadow theater technique. It is a vivid, living animation that
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Mulan: Holding Up Half the Sky presents episodes from 2500 years of Chinese history, as seen through the lives of four outstanding women warriors: Hua Mulan (5th Century), Hongxian (9th
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Debuted in 2013, Post-American Girl is an avant-garde production by The Public Theater, a landmark venue in New York. This play was written and performed by Abigail Washburn, a renowned
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Shadow/Point Whitesnake is a unique, solo spectacle that fuses music, Powerpoint projections, and traditional shadow puppetry into a performance style that is ephemeral in form, flexible in scale and suitable
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More than two thousand years ago, Qu Yuan composed a vast poem called Tianwen (“Heavenly Questions”) with more than a hundred questions. His thoughts on the origin of the universe,
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Chang-Er Flies to the Moon explores the famous legend of the Chinese Moon goddess and her husband, the archer/hero Ho Yi. CTW’s adaptation uses a live storyteller and vivid overhead
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