Theater
U-Theatre brings its six-part ode to its Laoquanshan (老泉山) home, The Mountain Dawn (入夜山嵐), to the National Theater tonight for four performances. It’s a softer, gentler production that reflects the quietness of the land [see Diane Baker’s preview at www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2009/03/13/2003438369].Tonight’s show is sold out but tickets remain for the other performances.
▲Tonight and tomorrow at 7:30pm, matinees tomorrow and Sunday at 2:30pm
▲National Theater (國家戲劇院), 21-1, Zhongshan S Rd, Taipei City (台北市中山南路21-1號)
▲NT$700 to NT$2,500; available through NTCH ticketing or online at www.artsticket.com.tw. Wide-range of seats still available for the two matinees, limited seats for tomorrow night.
Young dancers and choreographers from Focus Dance Company (焦點舞團) fuse together elements from modern dance, tai chi, ballet and traditional Chinese dance in the group’s latest production, Focus (聚焦). Works by Lin Hwai-min (林懷民) and Zhang Xiao-xiong (張曉雄) will also be performed.
▲Taipei National University of the Arts — Dance Theater (國立台北藝術大學舞蹈廳), 1, Xueyuan Rd, Taipei City (台北市學園路1號).
▲Today at 7:30pm, tomorrow at 2:30pm and 7:30pm
▲Tickets are NT$350, available through NTCH ticketing or online at www.artsticket.com.tw
The Two Gentlemen of Verona is the latest installment of Tainaner Ensemble’s (台南人劇團) Shakespeare series, which started with Romeo and Juliet, followed by Hamlet and Macbeth. The troupe is following the same approach that has proven successful in previous productions, updating the bard’s centuries-old scripts and localizing them to appeal to contemporary Taiwanese audiences.
Oasis is appearing live in concert on Friday, April 3, at the Taipei World Trade Center Nangang Exhibition Hall. The Brit-pop legends had originally been booked to play Beijing on April 3 and Shanghai on April 5 — in what would have been their first concerts in China — but the shows were axed by Chinese authorities. Oasis says the Chinese government revoked the performance licenses after discovering that bandmember Noel Gallagher had appeared at a Free Tibet Concert in 1997. A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson claimed the concerts’ organizers cancelled the shows “because of economic reasons in their business operations.” Oasis is touring Asia to promote its new album, Dig Out Your Soul.
▲Oasis at Taipei World Trade Center Nangang Exhibition Hall (台北世界貿易中心南港展覽館), 1 Jingmao 2nd Rd, Nangang Dist, Taipei City (台北市南港區經貿二路1)
▲April 3 at 7:30pm, doors open at 6pm
▲Tickets are NT$2,800 and NT$4,000 (NT$1,500 tickets are sold out), available through ERA ticketing outlets or online at www.ticket.com.tw/dm.asp?P1=0000009516. Call (02) 2341-9898 for more information
▲Tainan Human Theater Factory (台南人戲工場), 3F, Baida Education and Cultural Center (百達文教中心3樓), 85 Shengli Rd, Tainan City (台南市勝利路85號)
▲Today at 7:30pm, tomorrow at 2:30pm and 7:30pm and Sunday at 2:30pm
▲Tickets are NT$450, available through NTCH ticketing or online at www.artsticket.com.tw
Classical
Katia and Marielle Labeque (拉貝克姐妹雙鋼琴音樂會) presents the Labeque sisters, who have been praised as being “the best piano duo in front of an audience today” by the New York Times, performing a program that includes Mozart’s Sonata in D-Major, Schubert’s Fantaisie in F-Minor, and Revel’s Mother Goose and Rhapsodie Espagnole.
▲Monday (Taichung) and Tuesday (Taipei) at 7:30pm
▲Taichung Chungshan Hall (台中市中山堂), 98 Syueshi Rd, Taichung City (台中市學士路98號); National Concert Hall, Taipei City
▲Tickets are NT$500 to NT$5,000, available through ERA ticketing or online at www.ticket.com.tw
AMA Principal Soloists Series — Andrei Yeh (亞藝首席獨奏家系列 — 葉孟儒鋼琴獨奏會) sees Taiwan-born, Russian-trained pianist Andrei Yeh (葉孟儒) perform a series of concerts around Taiwan. The series opens tomorrow with a free performance in Taoyuan County. Yeh will perform a program that includes Debussy’s Preludes and Rachmaninoff’s Prelude Op. 23.
▲Tomorrow (Taoyuan) and Wednesday (Hsinchu) at 7:30pm
▲Performing Arts Hall of the Cultural Affairs Bureau of Taoyuan County Government (桃園縣政府文化局演藝廳), 21 Sianfu Rd, Taoyuan County (桃園市縣府路21號) and Performing Arts Center of the Cultural Affairs Bureau of Hsinchu County (新竹縣文化中心演藝廳), 146 Sianjheng 9th Rd, Jhubei City, Hsinchu County (新竹縣竹北市縣政九路146號)
▲Free admission for the Taoyuan concert, NT$150 to NT$400 for Hsinchu; available through ERA ticketing or online at www.ticket.com.tw
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