Helen Deng

ONLINE performance events organizer JUOOO.com will bring 40 shows to Shenzhen in its Autumn & Winter Art Season, the company said at a press conference last week.

The shows, which includes plays, concerts, children’s entertainment, and musicals, will make JUOOO, established only four years ago, one of the largest players in Shenzhen’s entertainment market.

JUOOO, which started out as a theater company, will bring several classic plays to Shenzhen this season. On Oct. 23, Woody Allen’s classic “Central Park West” will be staged. It is a story about marriage, infidelity and elopement involving four relationships between two men and three women.

Theater fans will also see Shakespeare’s most successfull comedy “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” and domestic director He Nian’s latest product “Queen of Coquetry,” which contrasts the characters of women in Hong Kong, Taipei, Shanghai and Beijing.

Taiwan director Stan Lai’s “Total Women” is the latest in Lai’s crosstalk-styled drama series, focusing on women’s frustrations about their lives, jobs and relationships, and showing their concerns and ideas about social problems.

As for concerts, world-renowned Austrian pianist Joerg Demus, known as the godfather of piano art in Vienna, will present a recital at Shenzhen Concert Hall on Oct. 16. A concert by Israeli violist Itzhak Perlman will follow Oct. 18.

Also on Dec. 18, champions of International Piano Competition in Memoriam Ferenc Liszt will play on the same stage.

In the last days of 2011, Leipzig Philharmonic Orchestra and the Vienna Strauss Orchestra will present New Year concerts. There will also be a combination of Spanish symphony and flamenco Dec. 30.

Children’s entertainment has always been a key part of Juooo’s schedule, and this season is no exception. For as cheaply as 50 yuan (US$8) per show, Shenzhen children can watch domestic children’s play “Magical Flute,” a show adapted from classic children’s story “Pinocchio,” and children’s stage musical “Monkey King,” which features stunts of Sichuan drama such as changing face.

Other shows include “Magic Cube Building” by well-known Chinese writer Zheng Yuanjie, the puppet show version of the children’s adventure “Alibaba,” “Bubble Show” by Korean artists, and a multi-media New Year concert Carnival of the Animals by prizewinning pianists from Asia aged between nine and 12.

If you are looking for pop music, there’s a concert by popular Japanese-Brazilian bossa nova singer Lisa Ono on Nov. 17.

Maksim Mrvica, the Croatian pianist who crosses over classical music, will play Nov. 26. Wang Feng, one of the best known rock and roll stars in China, will bring his emotionally charged songs to Shenzhen on Dec. 3.

If you want to watch a special ballet, then the all-male “Swan Lake” by Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo is right up your street. Their humorous performance has attracted numerous people, not all of whom are ballet-fanatics.

For traditional Chinese drama, watch the all-star Shaoxing opera performance of “Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtan,” the Chinese version of “Romeo and Juliet.”

For tickets and a detailed schedule, log on http://www.juooo.com/.