Blog Tag - NCPA

DP: Beijing's Best Events That Won't Leave You Hungover, Feb 19-23
Our Events Watch series aims to highlight happenings that aren't focused on alcohol and drinking, but instead take a more educational or productive...
DP: 5 Things To Taste, Smell, Touch, Hear And See This Weekend
Beijing can be overstimulating, to say the least. Let’s be real: Sometimes even our sixth sense gets a decent workout, the one where you know that ...
Beijing's Best Events That Won't Leave You Hungover, Oct 23-29
Our Events Watch series aims to highlight happenings that aren't focused on alcohol and drinking, but instead take a more educational or productive...
Beijing's Best Events That Won't Leave You Hungover, Jul 31-Aug 6
Our Events Watch series aims to highlight happenings that aren't focused on alcohol and drinking, but instead take a more educational or productive...
DP Q&A With Oscar Winner Tim Robbins Ahead of His Troop's NCPA Run, Nov. 17-20
As the winner of an Academy Award, star of landmark films like The Shawshank Redemption and director of hits like Dead Man Walking, Tim Robbins’ face...
Shakespeare Lives Brings Shakespeare to China Throughout 2016
In celebration of Shakespeare's achievements on the 400th anniversary of his death, the British Council and British Embassy are bringing his best...
Talking Entertainment: Your Weekend Guide to the Arts
The big movie event to look out for over the Spring Festival holiday will be the release of Stephen Chow’s Journey to the West adaptation. The star...
Art Attack: Understanding Stupidity, Bike-In Movie and Wrestling Girls
This week, the guy who wrote the book on how stupid we all can be is in town to discuss, you have an opportunity to ride your bike to an outdoor...
Art Attack: Chariots of Fire, Be the Next Tarantino
This week, catch the opera Aida at the NCPA or get into the Olympic spirit with a screening of Chariots of Fire. For those looking to get some...
Art Attack: Men in Black’s Missing Chinese People, Affordable Art and the Philly Orchestra
There’s a lot to see this weekend, but sometimes we get obsessed with what we can’t see – like entire scenes set in New York’s Chinatown in the...
Art Attack: Shteyngart Wheezes, Kurt Cobain Lives and Budding Filmmakers Ask Elders to Relive Horrors of the Past
You should all be drunk on sunshine by now instead of sitting in front of your computer screens. But if you’re looking for things to do this weekend...
Sink or Sail: Beijing’s First Stab at Wagner
The National Centre for the Performing Arts is opening this season’s Opera Festival with Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman, a dark oceanic tale about a...
Art Attack: Weird City Lights, Ghost Ships and Anxiety
This week, while some are clearing out for some filial tombsweeping, we’re congratulating the winner of the JUE Festival Next Gen photo competition...
Art Attack: BLF Kicks Off, NPR’s Racism is Showing and Yo-Yo Ma Takes On Death Cab
The anticipation’s been building and tonight The Bookworm finally kicks off their 2012 Literary Festival with author Gary Shteyngart. Also, we take...
Art Attack: Culture Wars, Chinese Fortune Telling and Indie Flicks
Have you all heard, Hu Jintao's declared a culture war on the West? There's a signed essay circulating that cites the invasion of cultural exports...