A new week, a new slew of announced shows. SmartTicket's now taking orders on tickets to Spartan Race, Brawl on the Bund's 10th Anniversary, A Chorus Line, Spectacles of Sound Festivus, Carmen: La Cubana, the 5th Edition of Beernanza and like a billion other things.

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Art & Stage

Dream of Zen, directed by Zhao Liang, is contemporary dance performance "Dreams of Zen" is inspired by an episode from the Chinese classic A Dream of Red Mansions, on at MIFA 1862 on Oct 20 & 21. Musical: Carmen La Cubana, based on the famous opera by Georges Bizet reimages the insuppressible Carmen as half-temptress, half-force of nature stirring up a 1950s Cuba on the cusp of Castro's revolution. It's on at Shanghai Culture Square from Dec 12-16. Maybe this time he'll give a damn. Gone With the Wind: the Musical brings Scarlett O'Hara and her misadventures in the pre- and antebellum American South to a Shanghai stage on Dec 29-Jan 10. The Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway Musical: A Chorus Line centers around 17 Broadway dancers auditioning for a part. It's a raw human glimpse at the rigors and the fleeting triumphs that make up showbiz. It's on from Jan 17 to Jan 22, 2019.

Live Music

Florida-raised rapper Smokepurpp is coming to Shanghai on Sep 30 for a live set at Arkham. New Noise pres. Club 8 as part of the China Tour of the Swedish indie band, led by two ex-Poprace members, Karolina Komstedt and Johan Angergård. That's Oct 16. Spectacles of Sound - Festivus is back! What started as a joke a few years ago has turned into a yearly series. They're taking over Yuyintang Park on Nov 8, with sets from PREP, Blue Hawaii and Lydmor. The mighty Four Tet, known to some as Kieran Hebden and to others as 00110100 01010100, is on at Modern Sky Lab on Nov 16.

Sports & Community

Beernanza! A three-day extravaganza dedicated to all things beer. This'll be the fifth time Bevex organizes a beer festival, set in the Okura Garden Hotel garden. 150 different craft beers, music, fitness classes! Oct 12-14. Push harder! The Spartan Race is happening again. They've changed it this year so that the "Competitive" heat is instead "Age-Group," where racers compete under the Elite challenge set against people in their own age group. Also for kids! It's on Oct 13 at Sunland Green. A comprehensive NBA Championship Exhibition is on at Lafayette Center from Sep 15 to Jan 20, bringing fresh, dynamic and exciting new dimensions of the National Basketball Association to China. It's the NBA's first touring exhibition in the world, spread over nearly 3,000sqm of interactive exhibits and activities. It's time for another Brawl on the Bund, the city's twice-yearly white-collar boxing event, on Nov 30. It's the 10th anniversary! It's going to be extra special.

This Week's Tickets

Jazz-hands cabaret Pizzazz at The Pearl on Sep 19 & 26. Grammy-award winning jazz vocalist Kurt Elling at Jazz at Lincoln Center from Sep 18-23. Yeti Out x Back To Life NYC at Arkham on Sep 21. Photofairs 2018 at the Shanghai Exhibition Center from Sep 21-23, kid-friendly Journey of a Cloud at the Children's Art Theatre from Sep 21-23 and That Physics Show (in Chinese) at ET Space from Sep 21-24. Candor's hosting in a new Dark Circus Experience Midnight Rendezvous at Candor at Sep 21&22. Joe DeRosa & Stephen Carlin are at Cages on Sep 22, and Joe DeRosa's doing a solo show at Comedy UN on Sep 23. And, finally, the ever-popular JZ Music Festival on the West Bund on Sep 22-23.