Chinese Theatre Works
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Chinese Theatre Works is a non-profit theatre company whose mission is to preserve and promote the traditional Chinese performing arts (including opera, shadow theatre, puppetry, dance and music); to create new works that bridge Eastern and Western aesthetics and forms; and to foster understanding and appreciation of Chinese culture in audiences, students, artists and educators around the globe.
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| We are proud to announce that Chinese Theatre Works' Co-Artistic & Technical Director, Stephen Kaplin, was awarded a 2006 Henry Hewes Award for Notable Effects by the American Theatre Wing. He won the award, one of the highest honors in U.S. theatrical design, for his work designing and constructing the puppets for Ping Chong's acclaimed 2005 show Cathay: Three Tales of China. Cathay was a unique collaboration between artists in New York, Seattle and Xian, China; working on the show gave Stpehen the opportunity to work closely with and learn from traditional Chinese puppeteers in Xian as they developed the piece. The Hewes awards, originally the Maharam Awards, were established in 1964 as the first design awards allowing Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway shows to compete equally. Stephen joins Ping Chong, Peter Schumann, Julie Taymor, Theodora Skipitares, Paul Zaloom, and many other longtime friends and colleagues among the noted artists who have recieved Hewes Awards. | ||
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| At the First International Shadow Play Art Festival in Tangshan, China, Chinese Theatre Works - the only company from the U.S. invited - won four awards. Our new production, Three Women, Many Plays, won Best Writing and Direction; our two storytellers, Co-Artistic Director Stephen Kaplin and Director Emerita Jo Humphrey, won Best Narration; and the company was honored for Excellence in Performance and Best Short Plays for both Three Women and Tiger Tales, our other contribution to the festival. | ||
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Venue ______________________________ |
Date & Time _____________ |
Little Red Riding Hood: The Chinese Opera tickets info _____________ |
The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Ave. New York, NY 10028-0198 ______________________________ |
February 5, 2011 7:00 pm _____________ |
Excerpt from Little Red Riding Hood: The Chinese Opera tickets info _____________ |
The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Ave. New York, NY 10028-0198 ______________________________ |
February 5, 2011 3:00 pm _____________ |
Peking Opera: Monkey King Steals Heavenly Peaches _____________ |
Bronx Library Center 310 East Kingsbridge Road Bronx, NY 10458 ______________________________ |
October 9, 2010 2:30 pm _____________ |
Hao Bang Ya, Tigers! _____________ |
Bronx Zoo 2300 Southern Boulevard Bronx, NY 10460 ______________________________ |
August 22, 2010 2:00 pm _____________ |
Traditional Dance From India and China _____________ |
Bronx Zoo 2300 Southern Boulevard Bronx, NY 10460 ______________________________ |
August 22, 2010 1:30 pm _____________ |
Hao Bang Ya, Tigers! _____________ |
Bronx Zoo 2300 Southern Boulevard Bronx, NY 10460 ______________________________ |
August 22, 2010 11:30 am _____________ |
Traditional Dance From India and China _____________ |
Bronx Zoo 2300 Southern Boulevard Bronx, NY 10460 ______________________________ |
August 22, 2010 11:00 am _____________ |
Hao Bang Ya, Tigers! _____________ |
Bronx Zoo 2300 Southern Boulevard Bronx, NY 10460 ______________________________ |
August 21, 2010 2:00 pm _____________ |
Traditional Dance From India and China _____________ |
Bronx Zoo 2300 Southern Boulevard Bronx, NY 10460 ______________________________ |
August 21, 2010 1:30 pm _____________ |
Hao Band Ya, Tigers! _____________ |
Bronx Zoo 2300 Southern Boulevard Bronx, NY 10460 ______________________________ |
August 21, 2010 11:30 am _____________ |
Traditional Dance From India and China _____________ |
Bronx Zoo 2300 Southern Boulevard Bronx, NY 10460 ______________________________ |
August 21, 2010 11:00 am _____________ |
Hao Bang Ya, Tigers! _____________ |
Queens Library - Woodside Library 54-22 Skillman Avenue Woodside, NY 11377 ______________________________ |
July 10, 2010 1:30 pm _____________ |
Hao Bang Ya, Tigers! _____________ |
Queens Library - Flushing Library 41-17 Main Street Flushing, NY 11355 ______________________________ |
July 17, 2010 2:30 pm _____________ |
Hao Bang Ya, Tigers! _____________ |
Queens Library - Woodside Library 54-22 Skillman Avenue Woodside, NY 11377 ______________________________ |
July 10, 2010 1:30 pm _____________ |
Hao Bang Ya, Tigers! _____________ |
Queens Library - Elmhurst Library 8601 Broadway Flushing, NY 11373-5820 ______________________________ |
June 26, 2010 2:30 pm _____________ |
Chinese Opera, Music and Face Changing _____________ |
Confucius Institute at the Pace University ______________________________ |
June 11, 2010 Time: TBD _____________ |
Hao Bang Ya, Tigers! _____________ |
Battery City Park Branch 175 North End Avenue (at Murray Street) New York, NY 10282 ______________________________ |
June 1, 2010 Time: TBD _____________ |
Tiger Tales _____________ |
Confucius Institute at the Pace University ______________________________ |
May 19, 2010 Time: 7:00 pm _____________ |
Chinese Opera, Music and Face-Changing _____________ |
Schermerhorn and Avery Plazas Weatherhead East Asian Institute Columbia University ______________________________ |
April 30, 2010 5:00 pm _____________ |
Tiger Tales _____________ |
Delaware Art Museum 2301 Kentmere Parkway, Wilmington, DE 19806 ______________________________ |
Feburary 14, 2010 1:30 pm & 2:30 pm _____________ |
Peking Opera: Monkey King Steals Heavenly Peaches _____________ |
Asia Society 725 Park Ave (at 70th St.) ______________________________ |
Feburary 6, 2010 2:30 pm _____________ |
Tiger Tales _____________ |
Philadelphia Museum of Art 26th Street and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway Philadelphia, PA 19130 ______________________________ |
January 31, 2010 11:30am & 1:30pm _____________ |
Chinese Music, Dance and Acrobat _____________ |
American Museum of Natural History Central Park West at 79th Street New York, NY, 10024-5192 ______________________________ |
January 17, 2010 _____________ |
Family Day: Face Painting _____________ |
American Museum of Natural History Central Park West at 79th Street New York, NY, 10024-5192 ______________________________ |
January 16, 2010 _____________ |
Chinese Theatre Works
34-23 Steinway Street, #241
Long Island City, NY 11101
(718) 457-1627
Chinese.theatre.works@gmail.com
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