Featured Events in Tianjin in December, 2024 (July Updated)

"Eternal Waves" is a dance drama co-directed by Han Zhen and Zhou Liya and staged by Shanghai Song and Dance Troupe Co., Ltd. It tells the "lurking" story of Li Xia and Lan Fen. It is also a work in which "today's post-80s pay attention to their peers of the last century and infect today's young people through creative performances."

Tianjin Grand Theater will usher in a grand cultural feast on September 16th - Tianjin Bank · 2024 Tianjin Theater Festival. During the festival, 84 works and about 340 performances will be staged in major theaters in Tianjin. The main activities of this drama festival will be held from September to December, with the three core sections of "Play Performance", "Immersion Everywhere - National Day Activities in the City of Drama" and "The Second Tianjin University Student Drama Festival", allowing the audience to experience the charm and style of drama art from all directions and angles. The repertoire of this drama festival presents three highlights: the vigorous enhancement of original power, the display of the style of municipal state-owned theaters and troupes, and the wonderful introduction of excellent repertoires from all over the country and even the world. Original power, shining on the stage.The original dramas "Grand Hotel" and "Gan Daying", which revolve around the legendary history of Tianjin Lishun Hotel and Yangliuqing Gan Daying, are full of strong Tianjin style; the country's first XR (extended reality) digital music children's drama "Dunhuang · Nine-Colored Deer King" created by Tianjin City highlights the cutting-edge achievements of drama development; the new works incubated by the "Fufeng Takeoff" plan of Tianjin Northern Performing Arts Group, the drama "The Twelve Officials of the Red Mansion", the picture book drama "I Dare to Sleep Alone" and the original science fiction comedy "Life is Easy to Explode" by Happy Twist will also appear at the drama festival. State-owned theaters and troupes, adhering to the right path and innovating. Excellent local works such as Rouge Treasure Pleats by Tianjin Peking Opera Theater, Yu Tang Chun by Tianjin Youth Peking Opera Troupe, Sleeping Beauty by Tianjin Song and Dance Theater Ballet, Doll's House by Tianjin People's Art Theater, Journey to the West: The Three Strikes on the White Bone Demon by Tianjin Children's Art Theater, Baolongshan by Tianjin Pingju Theater, Meng Mu by Tianjin Pingju Baipai Troupe, Su Wu by Tianjin Hebei Bangzi Theater, Old Shadows of the Haihe River by Tianjin Quyi Troupe, and Beautiful Times by Tianjin Acrobatic Troupe will meet the audience. Introduced plays, embracing all rivers. This drama festival introduced the signature plays of nationally renowned performance groups such as Beijing People's Art Theater, Shaanxi People's Art Theater, Yunnan Song and Dance Theater, and Drama Nine, such as The World, Ordinary World, Peacock, and Four Looms. There are also internationally renowned classic works such as the original English dramas "Jane Eyre" and "Hamlet", the original French musical "Rock Mozart", the classic original musical "Cats", and the ballet "Swan Lake". In this drama festival, the second Tianjin University Student Drama Festival will also be held as scheduled, including "Original Drama Performance", "Classic Drama Creation and Rehearsal", "Community Incubation and Co-construction", "Drama Entering Campus", "Students Entering Theater" and other sections.

Tianjin is a nationally renowned "hometown of folk art", where many folk art masters started their careers and new talents emerge in endlessly. The Tianjin Crosstalk Festival has been held for many years, and the rich and colorful activities continue to polish Tianjin's crosstalk, a beautiful cultural name card. This crosstalk festival will continue to build a platform for promoting crosstalk, exchanging and displaying, cultivating talents, and benefiting the people through culture. It will bring high-quality crosstalk performances to communities, campuses, grassroots cultural venues, etc., enriching the spiritual and cultural life of the people, and highlighting the charm of Tianjin crosstalk through excellent crosstalk works and performing talents, so that more people can understand and love crosstalk, this precious cultural heritage, and feel the unique charm of Tianjin culture in storytelling, learning, entertaining and singing. This crosstalk festival will last until early 2025, and ten grassroots crosstalk performances will be held. The actors will go to communities, schools, hospitals and other grassroots units to bring laughter to the audience.