A set photo of The Phantom of the Opera in Beijing. [Photo/CRIENGLISH.com] Twenty-nine years after its premiere in London, Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera" is now being staged in Beijing for the first time. It is ...
When Ultimate Broadway, a gala musical theater show in Shanghai, held an audition for 10 ensemble members in London, nearly 1,000 applicants turned up. Show director Paul Warwick Griffin, a veteran of musicals in the West End of London, ...
A comedy film without celebrities and with all its actors making their movie debuts raked in 593 million yuan ($93 million) at the Chinese box office over the National Day holiday. The actors in Goodbye Mr. Loser are all stage performers ...
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The Phantom of the Opera, a hit musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, staged its first show in Guangzhou city in Guangdong province on Sept 22. The southern Chinese city is the second location on the mainland, after Shanghai, to host the show ...
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The 14th China Theatre Festival opens in Suzhou city, East China's Jiangsu province on Sunday night, attracting 39 art troupes from around the country. About 22 genres of theatre including Kunqu Opera, Peking Opera, and musicals will be put ...
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The entertainment industry in China has seen explosive growth in recent years (an expected CAGR of 17 percent between 2010-2015), growing at a much faster pace than the overall economy. As more and more people in China enter the middle ...
Northampton based production company Stage Right has been using LED specialist EMTO's new LED screens on a number of recent theatre productions including an ever popular 'Jack & The Beanstalk' staged at the 1000 seater Deco Theatre in ...
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Two of theatre consultancy Charcoalblue's major projects, The New Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury and The Newcastle Theatre Royal, have won recognition from the prestigious Civic Trust Awards, which were held at City Hall in Cardiff and ...
For Samsung, the new Galaxy S4 smartphone is full of promise with its spectacular hardware and software features, and the company hopes to sell millions of units of the phone. Analysts equally were impressed with the new smartphone, but ...
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Shrek The Musical, which has enjoyed an extended three-month run at the Amsterdam RAI Theatre, has been playing regularly to full houses in the 1750-capacity venue. Giving increased realism to the friendly green ogre has been SGM's new ...
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UK - The Knight of Illumination Awards 2013 for outstanding achievements in lighting design has launched with an appeal for submissions. The annual KOI Awards, which this year celebrates its sixth anniversary, is now accepting submissions ...
Germany - Since last year, the municipality of Ertingen in the district of Biberach has been enjoying the benefits of a new cultural and sports hall, which, thanks its unusual architecture, is suitable for a very wide variety of events. ...
Tags: Germany, EVA, line-array system, Electro-Voice
Norway - The Stavanger Symphony Orchestra has spent the past 14 years wishing for a new home that it could truly call its own. In September it finally became a reality with the opening of the NOK1.225bn (165.2m), Stavanger Concert Hall. ...
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STAGE The Christmas Schooner Have yourself a City of Big Shoulders Christmas at the Mercury Theater, the current home of the beloved Chicago musical, “The Christmas Schooner.” Created by John Reeger and Julie Shannon, ...
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Denmark - Fredericia Theatre is using an extensive selection of DPA microphones to capture the audio for a very special musical production of the Disney classic Aladdin. All of the cast members are using DPA d:fine Headset Microphones, ...
Tags: microphones, Headset, audio