Hot Tickets: Sister Act, Aida the Opera, and Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg on Stage in Shanghai
*** Stage lovers and sports lovers can unite at 'Fight Me Now' which is a piece of physical theater from director Fu Hong-Zheng. Here performers will combine ping pong, basketball, baseball, and football--and will use sport to explore the 'big things in life'; career, family and love. Like Love and Basketball? Hopefully exactly like that. Show starts at 7.30pm daily till September 10. Get your tickets tickets here. Boris Eifman’s new ballet, 'Rodin', is dedicated to the life and creative work of the great sculptor Auguste Rodin and his apprentice, lover and muse, Camille Claudel; it covers their romance and it's demise through a modern ballet. Will be on the stage from September 7-8. Get your tickets here. Another show from Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg, ‘Anna Karenina’ will be returning to Shanghai September 7-10. Setting aside all secondary storylines in Leo Tolstoy’s novel, the choreographer focused on the love triangle told through the language of ballet. Get your tickets here. The Jabbawockeez are probably the most well known silent modern dance group out of the States (except for maybe The Silhouettes post inauguration, but that's a different story). Anyway the Jabbawockeez are definitely cooler, mixing LA style hip hop dance and jazz matched with state-of-the-art sound, stage, and light design. They've performed with Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, Nicki Minaj, and most recently were featured on Aziz Ansari's Master of None. Don't miss their Shanghai debut, tickets here. Sister Act! The Musical! Is there anything more glorious? No, the answer's no there's not. It's got 5 Tony's to back that up (including Best Musical, Best Actress, and Best Score) and 6 million people have seen it around the world. Now it'll be at Shanghai Culture Square from September 7-17. Tickets here. The Shanghai Opera House Chorus and the Shanghai Opera House Orchestra present their rendition of Verdi’s classic opera Aida. It's a classic--fun fact: it's been sung more than 1,100 times at the Met since 1886. The Shanghai production will be performed by Shanghai-based artists in Italian and English with Chinese subtitles. Check your priv, then get your tickets here.