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theater / CL:
HSK 3
stage play / modern drama / CL: 臺|台,
HSK 3
Beijing opera / CL: 場|场, 齣|出
HSK 3
TV series / TV drama / CL:
HSK 3
serialized drama / dramatic series / show in parts
HSK 3
script; screenplay; scenario; libretto
HSK 5
a drama; a play; theater / script of a play
HSK 5
a comedy / CL: , 齣|出
HSK 5
tragedy / CL: 齣|出
HSK 5
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theatrical work (play, opera, TV series etc) / dramatic (change, increase etc) / acute / severe
HSK 6
story line / plot / drama (genre)
HSK 7-9
theater / CL: ,
HSK 7-9
to write a play / scenario / dramatist / screenwriter
HSK 7-9
violent; acute; severe; fierce
HSK 7-9
Western opera / CL: 場|场, 齣|出
HSK 7-9
cast and crew / performers and production team
HSK 7-9
theatrical piece (play or opera) / repertoire / list of plays or operas
HSK 7-9
to intensify
HSK 7-9
theatrical troupe
HSK 7-9
rapid; sudden
HSK 7-9
screen adaptation (TV series or movie based on an online novel or video game etc)
Henan opera
photo taken during a theatrical production / a still (from a movie)
bourgeois tragedy
a Yuan dynasty form of musical comedy
highly toxic; extremely poisonous
Shaoxing opera
(serialized TV or Internet drama) show; series
film and theater / screen and stage
Sichuan opera
The End (appearing at the end of a movie etc)
to change dramatically / radical change
theater company
acute pain / sharp pain / twinge / stab / pang
dramatic increase
Cantonese opera
dance drama / ballet
tragedy / calamity / atrocity
Shanghai opera
Xiang opera (Hunan)
Anhui opera
Spring Willow Society, pioneering Chinese theatrical company set up in Tokyo in 1906, part of New Culture Movement 新文化運動|新文化运动, continued in China from 1912 as 新劇同志會|新剧同志会
to mime / a dumb show
Wuxi opera (which developed in the area around Wuxi 無錫|无锡)
pantomime / mime / dumb show
American TV series (abbr. for 美國電視劇|美国电视剧)
to perform a play
comedy / farce
absurd drama / farce / disgraceful show
political street theater (loanword from Zhivaya Gazeta, or Living Newspaper, Russian theater form of the 1920s)
the world of Chinese opera / theatrical circles
variety of opera popular in southern Fujian and Taiwan
farce
practical joke / prank / to play a practical joke
plot leak / spoiler
web series
becoming acute / to exacerbate
(neologism c. 2016) no tv shows to watch
Xieju opera (ballad and dancing monologue, popular in Sichuan)
to quit watching a TV series
radio drama
idol drama / drama series in which the actors are chosen for their preexisting popularity with young viewers
fun and mockery
romantic comedy
dramatic
sitcom
(theater, cinema) a musical
historical drama
Ma Zhiyuan (c. 1250-1321), Yuan dynasty dramatist in the 雜劇|杂剧 tradition of musical comedy, one of the Four Great Yuan Dramatists 元曲四大家
stage play
Bai Pu (1226-1306), Yuan dynasty dramatist in the 雜劇|杂剧 tradition of musical comedy, one of the Four Great Yuan dramatists 元曲四大家
popular show (on TV or other media)
opera house
spin-off series (TV)
La Comédie humaine, series of novels by 19th century French novelist Honoré de Balzac 巴爾扎克|巴尔扎克
anime series
Central Academy of Drama
theatrical
to binge-watch (TV)
cinema / movie theater
dramatist / playwright
amphitheater
Guan Hanqing (c. 1235-c. 1300), Yuan dynasty dramatist in the 雜劇|杂剧 tradition of musical comedy, one of the Four Great Yuan dramatists 元曲四大家
The Phantom of the Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Dong opera
repertory / repertoire / repertory item
Shanghai Grand Theater
Shanghai Theatrical Institute
local Chinese opera, such as Shaoxing opera 越劇|越剧, Sichuan opera 川劇|川剧, Henan opera 豫劇|豫剧 etc
tragicomedy
tragic
playwright
cup / (slang) (pun on 悲劇|悲剧, tragedy) so bad / terrible / bummer / fiasco / debacle
Shanghai opera / same as 滬劇|沪剧
the Capital Theater (in Beijing)
satellite television show
tragedy of the commons (economics)
murder mystery game (role-playing game)

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