The Monkey King, a rebellious 16th-century Chinese superhero, is finally breaking into the U.S. through Netflix films, ...
THE GIST: A family is generationally cursed by an irredeemably creepy toy monkey which incites grisly deaths—some random, some less so—when anyone turns the key in its back and gets it banging its ...
There’s a new hero in the world of opera, one with amazing superpowers, an unstoppable mission — and a tail. “The Monkey King,” created by composer Huang Ruo and librettist David Henry Hwang, hearkens ...
In 2016, my husband and I attended the world premiere of Dream of “The Red Chamber,” San Francisco Opera’s first commissioned ...
"The Monkey King," a new opera by Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang based on a popular Chinese folktale, has proved a major hit ...
Composer Huang Ruo and librettist David Henry Hwang's "The Monkey King" brings Chinese mythology to vivid life in a spectacular San Francisco Opera premiere.