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 …
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, …
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 …
In 2008, CTW invited Wu-Shan Huang, a young master of Taiwanese “Budaixi” hand puppetry, to NYC to teach our team some of his traditional glove puppetry techniques in exchange for …
Two Horses tells a story of cultural change and continuity, exploring the presence of the performer in both traditional and contemporary theater with a blend of Peking Opera and Western …
Book of Songs presents poetry from across the span of China’s 3000-year literary history, interpreted through traditional Chinese and contemporary Western performing arts, exploring the tensions between ancient and modern, …
Songs From the Yellow Earth was a collaboration between Chinese Theatre Works and world-famous theater artist Peter Schumann, founder and director of the Bread & Puppet Theater. In this graphic …
Three Women, Many Plays spans almost 70 years and two continents, telling the stories of three border-crossing artists; Pauline Benton, who founded the pioneering Red Gate Players and introduced Chinese …
Two overhead projectors and a live storyteller vividly bring to life one of the great characters of Chinese literature and stage. Based on the 17th-century novel, Journey to the West, …
Day Jobs, Opera Dreams builds on the moving personal stories of immigrant Chinese Opera artists— recently arrived in New York City. It explores issues of cultural migration and dramatizes the bitterness and …
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