He hobnobbed with Charlie Chaplin. He was on good terms with Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford. His work deeply impressed theatrical visionaries like Vsevolod Meyerhold and Bertolt Brecht. The man ...

"Hao! Hao! Hao!" shouted the audience, to express their appreciation. They were saluting a Peking Opera performer who had just finished a marvelous "qiangbei," a movement in which he twirled himself ...

BEIJING, July 3 (Xinhua) -- Using modern sound, light and digital stage effects, China's traditional Peking Opera is appealing to young people in a fashionable and innovative way, as the classic art ...

Concordia theatre student Natasha Perry-Fagant is playing the role of the goddess Thetis in the Theatre Department’s upcoming production of Peleus and Thetis. In this blog entry, she recounts the ...

A student performs a classical musical piece from Peking Opera at the cultural festival held at a local primary school in Shijiazhuang, North China's Hebei province, on June 11, 2019. [Photo/Xinhua] ...