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Shanghai's Grand Theatre

A review of Shanghai's new venue which seats 1800 people

A review of Shanghai's new venue which aims to restore the city to the cultural prominence it enjoyed in the 1920 and 30s.

Also on the programme: the latest arts news, Flemish director Ivo van Hove talks about his productions of Eugene O'Neill's More Stately Mansions and Caligula at the Edinburgh Festival, a review of a Japanese version of Shakespeare's Hamlet, Irish comedian Michael Mee delivers his Edinburgh Festival diary and sounds of the Russian Avant-Garde.

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29 minutes

主播大秀 World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project