Long after sunset, sweltering 40 C heat still hung over the vast, remote Gobi Desert as hot winds swept across the wilderness.
At 7:30 pm, audience members begin filing into GOAT, a comedy club on Xiangyang North Road in Shanghai's Jing'an district. Backstage, Harry Hussain, who is known simply as Harry, eats a banana with his coffee, his pre-show ritual.
EDINBURGH — For people living in Chongqing, Southwest China, in the late 1930s and early 1940s, fog was more than weather. It could mean precious hours of cover from bombers overhead.
The 17-day festival will feature over 146 performances by more than 100 musicians from 29 countries and regions.
By the time Erfan Omar's face is painted near the end of Odes to Heroes, his character is no longer the boy who has spent years wondering why his father left the family.
The acclaimed British vocal ensemble Tenebrae made its Asian debut at Shanghai Symphony Hall on July 6, earning rapturous applause from local audiences.