The Peking Opera Festival returns to the Skirball Center for its tenth anniversary
NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts
566 La Guardia Pl.
Sunday, October 24, $38, 7:00
www.qishufang.com
www.skirballcenter.nyu.edu
As part of its World Stages series, the NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts is presenting the tenth annual Peking Opera Festival on Sunday night, October 24. Now in its twenty-second year of “promoting Chinese and Chinese-American culture by bringing Peking Opera — one of China’s national treasures — to a world audience and to foster a deeper cultural understanding between East and West,” the Qi Shu Fang Peking Opera Company will perform “The Monkey and the Princess Iron Fan,” from the epic THE JOURNEY TO THE WEST, in addition to the excerpts “Pick Up the Jade Bracelet” and “The Stone Marker at the Border,” each of which tells a traditional Chinese legend. At previous festivals, the company, which is based in New York City and incorporates martial arts, acrobatics, dance, spectacular costumes, and live music into its productions, has performed such pieces as “Women Generals of the Yang,” “Monkey King: Havoc in Heaven,” “The Flaming Phoenix,” “Melon Garden Brawl,” and “The Nine-Tailed Fox Spirit” at such area venues as the New Victory Theatre on Broadway, the Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College, the Theatre at St. Clement’s, and Flushing Town Hall, where we caught them back in June 2006. The Skirball Center’s World Stages series continues on November 13-14 with ¡Flamenco Festival Gitano! and November 20 with Taiko Thunder: Kenny Endo.