Shanghai Jingju Theatre Company
Shanghai Jingju Theatre Company is a theatre company based in Shanghai, China, which produces Jingju. It was founded in 1955, with Zhou Xinfang its director. The Shanghai Beijing-Opera Theatre is at 168 Yueyang Road, Xuhui, Shanghai.
Although the Yue opera as performed at the Shanghai Yueju Yuan is geographically nearer to Shanghai, Peking Opera has long had a following in Shanghai, just as southern opera styles have a following in northern China.
Other famous jingju troupes include the China National Peking Opera Company in Beijing, the Beijing Jingju Yuan, the Shanghai Youth Jing-Kun Troupe, Shenyang Jingju Yuan, Fujian Jingju Yuan and the Taipei New Theatre. Defunct troupes include the Chongya Company of 1916 and the Sanqingban 1790-1890.
