One of the greatest true stories of adventure and survival comes to the stage in this thriller directed by Tony Award-winner, Tom Morris. 

Louis Pearl, the Amazing Bubbleman, returns to Hong Kong for the third time, following his last sell-out visit in 2015.

Written some 2,500 years ago, Aeschylus’ Greek classic has been adapted by leading Scottish dramatist David Greig  to retell the arrival of a group of refugee women provokes the ruler of a city-state to consider their obligations of hospitality and asylum. These women are escaping from forced marriage in their homeland, and now they must persuade the citizens of the country that now controls their fate to let them stay. A referendum is triggered to resolve a moral quandary.

True to ancient Greek drama practice, the production will feature a 40-strong chorus– recruited and trained from the local community to perform alongside a professional cast. Adding to the production’s authenticity and atmosphere, John Browne’s moving and earthy score uses a specially reconstructed, ancient, double-pipe instrument, the aulos, to accompany the women’s singing.

Part barn dance, part Spaghetti Western movie-pitch, part thriller and slapstick comedy, Pursuit of Happiness starts in a Wild West saloon and ends on the battlefields of Iraq.

Admirers of New York's OBIE Award-winning Nature Theater of Oklahoma (NTO) will know to expect the unexpected, and the very best in contemporary performance.

The title refers to the three inalienable rights set out in the American Declaration of Independence; 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness'. As Donald J Trump vows to 'make America great again', the show's six characters set out in true gold-digger style in search of their own happiness, albeit in unusual and unfavourable circumstances.

OBIE award winning Nature Theater of Oklahoma from New York teams with EnKnapGroup, Slovenia's only permanent contemporary dance company. Founded by Iztok Kovac in 1993 in Ljubljana, it has a repertoire of over twenty five productions, and works with many Slovene and international choreographers and directors, at home and abroad.

Teshigawara’s Tristan and Isolde transforms Wagner’s opera of impossible love and its inevitable, tragic consequences into a unique movement work for two dancers.

The performers are Teshigawara himself and his long-time stage partner Rihoko Sato. 

Choreographer, dancer, designer, writer, installation and visual artist Saburo Teshigawara began his creative career in Tokyo in 1981, going on to form his world-famous company KARAS four years later.  He both directed and designed Turandot for the 1999 Edinburgh Festival and top dance houses Paris Opera Ballet, Frankfurt Ballet and Nederlands Dans Theater have all commissioned his work for their repertoire. His collection of professional honours stretches back decades with four Japan Dance Critic Awards, the Munich Dance Critic Award in 1993, and the New York Dance and Performance Award in 2007. He has been awarded France's prestigious cultural distinction of Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters in 2017.

Written and directed by Tan Chi-Kin, The Great Learning follows the lives of secondary school students, Yin, Sau, Hua, Fatso and Ling, characters first met in Tang's Chinese Lesson (HKAF 2016), a play that was named by SCMP as one of HKAF’s “best drama productions in recent years”.

The play takes its title from Confucius’s The Great Learning, which holds that “things being investigated, knowledge became complete”. As the young students “investigate” and encounter difficulties along the way, finally they are able to come to terms with the realities they live in.

See also 'Doctrine of Happiness', also in this year's HKAF, which completes the trilogy.

Directed by Lo Kingman and conducted by Lio Kuokman, this production of Musica Viva conjoins international opera stars and home-grown talents to bring Puccini's masterpiece to the Hong Kong stage.

Part of the celebrations for the 20th anniversary of Hong Kong's handover.

This internationally acclaimed ensemble comes to Hong Kong for the first time to play quartets of Mozart (no 8 K.168), Beethoven (no 15 Op.132) and Schumann (no 3 Op.41).

Virtuoso Polish pianist Rafal Blechacz performs works by Bach, Beethoven and Chopin.

Internationally acclaimd choral group The Sixteen perform works by Palestrina and Poulenc.