Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dancer Huiwang Zhang as the title role in Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang's "The Monkey King." (Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera) ...

Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang’s “The Monkey King,” based on “Journey to the West,” brings an old superhero to the opera stage. By Joshua Barone Reviewing from San Francisco Underestimate the Monkey ...

When interviewing a puppeteer in the presence of his creation, eye contact can be perplexing. Basil Twist, the acclaimed puppet artist whose designs span Broadway, opera and cabaret stages, was ...

The Monkey King — known as Sun Wukong in Chinese — first burst fully-formed out of a rock in the classic 1592 novel Journey to the West, widely attributed to the poet Wu Cheng'en. Sponsor Message ...