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November 3, 2016
As an Academy Award-winning actor, an Oscar-nominated director and an acclaimed screenwriter with a solo album to his name, Tim Robbins epitomizes the modern Renaissance man. However, as he tells That’s, he feels “most at home” workshopping new pieces with The Actors’ Gang, the theater group he co-founded in California […]
September 28, 2015
Check out the full Arts Intercepts article at this link. Joseph Lam, Director of the Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor (CI), climbed a short set of stairs from the house of the Lydia Mendelssohn Theater up to the edge of the stage and immediately noted that […]
August 18, 2015
Check out the full Guardian article at this link. Against the metronomic ring of the glockenspiel, Fu Liwie and Mao Xue hold hands and lean in. They pace, in flowing costumes, to the sound of Steve Reich’s Drumming, Part Four. A leg lifts; heads roll and sometimes loll, and the […]
May 18, 2015
Check out the full Sinica article at this link. https://popupchinese.com/data/1452/sinica-leonard-bernstein-and-china.mp3 This week on Sinica, Kaiser Kuo and David Moser are delighted to host Alexander Bernstein, son of Leonard Berstein and director of the Bernstein Family Foundation, who is now in China on part of a cultural tour. Accompanied by Alison […]
June 24, 2014
如今的戏剧人大概都活在“影响的焦虑”之中，因为他们自认为“现代”的表演形式很可能在四个世纪之前就被一个叫莎士比亚的人用过了。 在这一点上，好莱坞著名影星蒂姆·罗宾斯(Tim Robbins)深有体会。
June 22, 2014
Check out the full New York Times article at this link. BEIJING — On the final night recently of the Actors’ Gang production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” here, theatergoers were treated to an unexpected — and rather meta — performance. Stepping in for an ill colleague at the last […]
June 12, 2014
Check out the full That’s Shanghai article at this link. As his career enters its fourth decade, Tim Robbins has pretty much done it all. He won an Academy Award for his stirring performance in Mystic River, released a solo album four years ago and is about to star alongside […]
June 12, 2014
Check out the full Wall Street Journal article at this link. Humor doesn’t always get lost in translation. That is what Academy Award-winner and the Actors’ Gang ensemble founder Tim Robbins discovered while directing “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” in China. “There’s so much heart in this play,” Mr. Robbins told […]
June 8, 2014
Check out the full Bachtrack article at this link. Hypnotic, enthralling and undeniably special: bodies ebb and flow with the tide of change in Chinese choreographer Tao Ye’s 4 and 5. These are just two parts in a series of abstract works that “explore the potential of the human body […]
June 8, 2014
Check out the full CriticalDance article at this link. It’s an auspicious time for Chinese contemporary dance. The community cohesion, instilled through centuries of Confusion attention to order and more recently of Communist conformity, is conspicuous but so too is the emergence of self-expression. The result is highly disciplined bodies […]
April 29, 2014
Check out the full Beijinger article at this link. Academy Award-winning actor Tim Robbins’ Actors Gang is coming to Beijing in June, to present, appropriately, Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday. The play will get a five-day run at the National Center for the Performing Arts (NCPA) […]
April 28, 2014
Check out the full Broadway World article at this link. The Actors’ Gang, the critically acclaimed Los Angeles based ensemble Theatre Company, will be heading overseas bringing William Shakespeare‘s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, directed by Academy Award winner Tim Robbins, to international audiences. The production will put on six performances […]
April 28, 2014
Check out the full L.A. Times article at this link. Tim Robbins will take the Actors’ Gang’s production of ” A Midsummer Night’s Dream” to China, with performances in Beijing and Shanghai scheduled for June. “Midsummer” is expected to run in Beijing at the National Center for the Performing Arts […]
April 2, 2014
Check out the full CCTV news clip at this link.
March 30, 2014
Check out the full DC Metro Theater Arts article at this link. The World Stages: International Theater Festival takes the center stage at The Kennedy Center, March 10-30, 2014 bringing together some of today’s most exciting theatrical visionaries presenting an unprecedented focus on theatre from around the globe. Twenty-two theatrical […]
March 28, 2014
Check out the full China Daily article at this link. If finding true love isn’t already complicated enough, doing so in defiance of the laws of nature can only lead to more loss – or is it more gain? The theme is explored in the Chinese masterpiece Green Snake, which […]
March 28, 2014
Check out the full Washington Post article at this link. The National Theatre of China’s “Green Snake” begins with a dignified ceremony as monks march through the aisles of the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater, taking the stage for a somber ritual. Um, that was fake, a monk wryly explains a […]
March 1, 2014
Check out the full Boston Globe article at this link. For TAO Dance Theater’s artistic director/choreographer Tao Ye, choreography is all about stretching “the boundaries of the flesh.” It is about abstract shapes in motion, with the human body as the vehicle — no narrative, no underlying emotional subtext, just […]
February 21, 2014
Check out the full New York Times article at this link. Tao Ye doesn’t think in terms of Eastern or Western where his art is concerned. This Chinese choreographer, who formed his company in Beijing in 2008, avoids such categorical boxes; his dances, he believes, should stand on their own, […]
January 31, 2014
Check out the full Washington Post article at this link. At the Kennedy Center come March, all the world’s ON stage. From China and Chile the plays will arrive, and from France and Kuwait and Canada and Australia and Mexico and Israel and South Africa. From every continent, in fact, […]