NEW YORK (Reuters) - With lavishly embroidered costumes, elaborate makeup and acrobatics, a troupe of nearly 90 singers, actors and musicians of the Peking Opera begins a special U.S. tour on ...

When The Peking Acrobats appear onstage at the Clark Center, they will bring their latest feats of balancing, cycling, gymnastics, juggling and contortions, enhanced by live music and high-tech ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Peking Acrobats featuring the Shanghai Circus will perform at 7:30 p.m.

BEIJING – “Why are you going to a Peking opera? It’s slow, boring and you can’t even understand what they’re saying half the time!” That was the reaction Karolina Shab, a 26-year-old Polish student ...

In the backstage of the Mei Lanfang Theatre in Beijing, Jiang Meiyi, a young performer from the National Peking Opera Company, is applying her makeup and dressing for the upcoming performance. As the ...

BEIJING — Dressed in a red-and-white warrior costume, Peking opera actress Zhang Wanting balances on one foot on the narrow handle of a rosewood chair. She bends forward, lifts her other leg high and ...