Chekhov International Theater Festival 12th Night

Date: Aug 12-13 - 7:30 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 100-500 yuan

Featured with modern choreography, this drama integrates strong Russian cultural flavor and musical dance elements, making use of British minimalist style in the set and lighting design, redefining the literary giant Shakespeare's fantasy about love. As a play performed in Russian, the drama, due to the director Declan Donnellan's ingenious arrangement, won the Best Director Award at the Russian "Golden Mask Awards", and the Chivalric Order of Culture" from the French government.

Summer Sonic 2017 Shanghai

Date: Aug 26-27 - 7:30 pm

Venue: Shanghai International Music Village

Price: 380-1,280 yuan

Summer Sonic Festival was founded in 2000 in Japan, with a focus on major national and international acts. Among the first bands in 2000's lineup were 311, Arrested Development, At the Drive-In, Ben Folds Five, and Coldplay. The EDM section of the festival was later split into Sonicmania, an EDM focused main stage held at a different time, which according to Time Out, "Held as a warm-up for Summer Sonic each year, the all-night Sonicmania party caters to dance kids who aren't so well served by the main festival itself" in 2011. Producer Creativeman formed a joint venture with Live Nation Entertainment in 2012. Live Nation bought full control of the venture in 2014.