Taipei, May 24 (CNA) A musical to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the opening of a legendary live music venue that fueled Taiwan's campus folk song boom from the early 1970s to the 1990s will be staged on October 6-8 at the Taipei Cultural Center.
Gathering with old friends is always a nostalgic affair, especially if you have been away from Singapore for some time. Former TV actress Florence Tan, 45, recently returned to Singapore and met up with old friends and colleagues including Jeff Wang, Vincent Ng, Christopher Lee, Zheng Geping, Hong Huifang, Chen Xiuhuan, Dawn Yeoh and Terence Cao. Yesterday (Jan 31), she.
Yet another Taiwanese showbiz personality has died suddenly of cardiovascular reasons. Director-actor Ming Gin-cheng, 51, suffered cardiogenic shock at around 11pm yesterday (Feb 8) while spending time with his wife Patty Lin, who's six years younger, at a Taipei confinement centre. He was rushed to a hospital where he was pronounced dead. Cardiogenic shock is a life-threatening condition in which.
Two jobs no guarantee of success
The Performance Workshop has revived its adaptation of Carlo Goldoni’s 1743 tale of a crafty, double-timing servant that it claims is ‘possibly the happiest comedy ever’
By Diane Baker / Staff reporter
New Taipei City-based Performance Workshop (表演工作坊) is beginning the new year by launching what it calls a “classic reproduction tour” with a revival of its 1995 hit,
The Servant of Two Masters (一夫二主), which opens tomorrow night at Taipei’s Metropolitan Hall.
Company founder Stan Lai (賴聲川) adapted an Italian comedia dell’arte classic, Carlo Goldoni’s 1743 masterpiece
The Servant of Two Masters about Truffaldino, a scheming, jobless manservant who thinks he has struck gold when he accepts job offers from two different people, which proved so successful that the company went on to adapt two more of Goldoni’s plays,