Best bets

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2

Date: through December

Venue: Lumiere Pavilions, Parkview Green, Beijing

Price: 55-125 yuan

As the global phenomenon of The Hunger Games arrives at its powerful final chapter in China, Beijing Imcube Technologies, China Film Post Production and Gener8 co-hosted a new 3D Conversion Model Release Event on Wednesday to demonstrate to the Chinese audience excellent quality 3-D films can be achieved with reasonable prices. Gener8 executive producer Paul Becker showcased the 3-D conversion making of Mockingjay part 2 with a detailed explanation of the two different methods used in the film: substitution and projection. Over 700 shots using the projection method and 1,400 shots with substitution make the film have the best viewing results. The event aims to provide better 3-D movie to the Chinese audience, since China has the world's largest 3-D movie lovers.

Dance Ballet By The German National Youth Ballet

Date: Dec 3-5 - 7:30

Venue: Tianqiao Theater, Beijing

Price: 50-900 yuan

Germany's first ever National Youth Ballet has been founded at the beginning of the 2011/2012 theater season. The company consists of eight professional dancers between the ages of 18 to 23, and has begun work at its new home at the Ballettzentrum Hamburg - John Neumeier. With its own repertoire comprising mainly works by young choreographers, the group will predominantly dance in new spaces - not theaters, but schools, museums, nursing homes and even prisons; spaces in which dance does not usually attract much interest. The National Youth Ballet aims to demonstrate that dance has a social relevance creating a spirit of community and a sense of unity, focussing especially on a young audience.

Flamenco Carmen in Beijing

Date: Dec 12 - 7:30 pm

Venue: Beijing Exhibition Center

Price: 280-880 yuan

Carmen is an opera in four acts by the French composerGeorges Bizet. Carmen, with her free love, seduces corporal Don Jose, an inexperienced soldier. Carmen's relationship with the soldier motivates it to reject his previous beloved one, mutiny against his superior and, as a deserter, join a group of smugglers. Finally, when she leaned her love over the bullfighter Escamillo, jealousy lead to Don Jose to committhe murder of Carmen.

The Phantom of Opera in Beijing

Date: Nov 11-Jan 3, 2016

Venue: Beijing Tianqiao Performing Arts Center

Price: 380-1180 yuan

The Phantom of Opera is one of the representative musicals by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Adapted from French Writer Gaston Leroux's novel, the musical was premiered by Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman in the UK at London's Queen's Theater on Oct 9, 1986. Now the play has 16 production versions in the world. More than 1 million people in 145 cities of 27 countries around the world have seen this play.

Defending the Caveman (Chinese Version) in Shanghai

Date: Dec 1-13 - 8 pm

Venue: 1933 Old Millfun

Price: 150-200 yuan

Defending the Caveman is a comedy play written by American actor and comedian Rob Becker about the misunderstandings between men and women. Defending the Caveman has been seen in theaters around the world by more than 8 million people in 45 countries. It has been performed in over thirty different languages. Theater Mogul is the rights holder of the play. A blend of stand-up comedy, lecture, and therapy session, it attempts to resolve the war between the sexes. The play manages to stand up for the male viewpoint, while still being sympathetic to the female side of issues as well.

The Mistress of the Inn in Beijing

Date: Dec 3-6 - 7:30 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 80-380 yuan

The Mistress of the Inn is a three-act comedy created by Carlo Goldoni. As Goldoni's representative work, first put on show in 1753, the comedy praises wisdom and hard word, advocates independence and equality in relationships, and criticizes the life dependent on money and social status. Goldoni vividly depicts characters coming from different classes living in Venice in the 18th century. The comedy represents the highest achievement of Italian enlightenment drama.