Six Shows To Be Stages At The Pudong Culture & Art Festival

According to Shanghai Daily - six Chinese theatre produc­tions will be staged each Friday and Saturday throug September and October at Pudong New Stage as part of the 2017 theatre series at the Pudong Culture & Art Festival.

Shanghai Daily writes: "The Four Ministers of Ming Dynasty," produced by Shanghai Theater Academy, will open the series on September 1. This 2015 National Art Fund project is adapted from the novel "Biography of Xu Jie, the celebrated minister in the Ming Dynasty" by Shen Aoda and Shen Yiyun, which reveals the political struggle be­tween the two ministers Xu Jie and Yan Song.

In the upcoming weeks, "My Father's Father" is a theater production that will warm everyone's heart with a fam­ily story. It was created by Taiwanese director Lin Wei Yan and has been pre­sented in Taiwan, Shenzhen, Nanchong, Taizhou and Shanghai.

The tickets are priced from 30 to 150 yuan (US$4.5-22.5), and there will also be a series of free performances.

The 2017 Pudong Culture & Art Festi­val officially kicked off on July 21 and will last through October 31. More than 600 cultural and art events will be pre­sented in the three months.