No longer wishing to marry Molly, if he ever really did, Edward flees from Mandalay to Rangoon to Singapore to Bangkok to Saigon to Manila to Osaka to Shanghai to Chongqing. Molly follows in ...

American film composer Aaron Zigman’s musical drama Émigré, about Jewish refugees in Shanghai in the late 1930s, will make its Hong Kong debut in an updated version that its composer says will ...

The writer Amy Ng has made a sterling effort in digging up the true story behind her new play at the Kiln, Shanghai Dolls, but sadly has not yet found the best way to project this interesting material ...

SAGA City of Light, a Sino-French collaboration with French production company Puy du Fou, transforms a 12,000-square-meter performance area into 1930s Shanghai. It features 100 actors ...

First was Jin Mao Tower, followed by the 1192 Lane Old Shanghai Food Street, which recreated 1930s Shanghai in an enclosed “food street” replete with rickshaws and retro paraphernalia.

Set in 1930s Shanghai, in a theatre that doubles as a secret socialist safe house, we meet Jiang Qing – the future wife of Mao Zedong – rehearsing Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House.

Rage bleeds through Shanghai Dolls, embodied brilliantly and brutally by both actors. It is too bad that these moments are few and far between, quickly subsumed by the overacting and misplaced ...

Jiang Qing and 14-year-old Sun first meet in 1930s Shanghai at an audition for Ibsen’s The Doll’s House, and swiftly become friends, united by their passion for theatre. While Jiang went on to become ...