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Riverdance in Shanghai

Date: Jan 17-18－7:30 pm

Venue: Shanghai Culture Square, Shanghai

Price: 80-680 yuan

The Riverdance 20th Anniversary Tour is coming to Shanghai. With two decades of global success since the show first burst on the scene at the Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin in 1994, this is a chance for UK audiences to reconnect with what the Irish Times described as "The Original ...The Best". This 20th Anniversary UK Tour gives Riverdance fans old and new the opportunity to celebrate an incredible milestone for the show.

Romeo and Juliet by Scottish Ballet in Beijing

Date: Feb 5-7－7:30 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts-Opera house, Beijing

Price: 100-880 yuan

Scottish Ballet is the national ballet company of Scotland and one of the four leading ballet companies of the United Kingdom, alongside the Royal Ballet, English National Ballet and Birmingham Royal Ballet. As a national company, Scottish Ballet performs at theatres in Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Inverness and in smaller venues throughout Scotland. Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and like Hamlet, remains one of his most frequently performed plays.