On the 20th, the Tianqiao Art Center held an annual press conference in Beijing with the theme of "Spring at its peak, everything opens up the present", officially announcing the eight major festival exhibitions of 2024, as well as over a hundred high-quality plays of five types including musicals, dramas, dance dramas, parent-child dramas, and new space theaters. It is expected that a record high of a thousand performances will be held throughout the year. In the past year, the Tianqiao Art Center has performed a total of 211 plays, with 968 performances and a total box office of 160 million yuan. The operating data has exceeded that of 2019. Xu Xiaohui, General Manager of Beijing Tianqiao Shengshi Investment Group Co., Ltd., revealed that in 2024, the Tianqiao Art Center will present more than 100 high-quality stage arts from home and abroad to audiences in the capital. "After comprehensive analysis of various data, it is predicted that the total number of performances this year will exceed 1000, setting a record for the highest number of performances since its opening." He said that the Tianqiao Art Center will continue to do well in originality, incubate high-quality works, promote the peak of the capital's literature and art, polish the cultural business card of "watching Beijing with big plays", and help build Beijing as the "City of Performing Arts". In 2024, the Tianqiao Art Center will launch eight major exhibitions: the Tianqiao International Musical Exhibition will showcase 10 top international musicals; The Tianqiao Drama Exhibition presented more than 60 exciting domestic and foreign plays; The second Tianqiao Dance Performance Season combines tradition and modernity, moving contemporary trends with classic dances; The 8th Tianqiao · Chinese Spring Art Festival has opened in early March, with over 20 excellent performances currently underway. This year, a special "Chinese New Voice" unit has also been set up; The 8th Lao She Drama Festival continues to meet with the audience in golden autumn; The second Traditional Revitalization Plan will strengthen the artistic expression of excellent traditional Chinese culture in current cultural life; The "Sky Bridge · Reflection" high-definition screening series and the "Little Dot · Big Vision" performance season add color to art with an international perspective. In 2024, the Tianqiao Art Center will continue to cultivate and refine around the five major art performance categories, with a variety of diverse theatrical genres blooming. In the musical section, the original English musicals "The Phantom of the Theater", "Rock School", and "Mamma Mia!", the original French musicals "Don Juan", "Rock Mozart", and "Notre Dame Cathedral", the original German musicals "Elizabeth" and "Butterfly Dream" will be held at the music festival, and the original Chinese musicals "South Wall Plan", "Human Disqualification", "Going to Drink", "Orphan Zhao", "Twelve Hours of Chang'an", and the Chinese version of the musicals "Count of Monte Cristo" will take turns. In terms of drama, more than 60 excellent domestic and foreign dramas will be presented to audiences in Beijing. The original West End play "No One Survives", Berlin Theatre Company play "Brecht's Ghost", Brazilian Warehouse Theatre Company play "Memories of Bras Cooper's Death", Hong Kong Theatre Company Cantonese play "The First Building in the World", "Island Fragrance", "Ambiguity", as well as plays "A Village on Treasure Island", "Dream", "Five Stories of Lao She", "Mother Su", and Broadway comedy "The Validity Period of Facts" will all be staged. In terms of dance, British choreographer Matthew Burn's new adventure dance troupe's "Romeo and Juliet" will make its debut in Beijing. The dance poetry drama "Nine Songs" directed by Hu Yang, a young dancer and chief dancer of the Chinese Opera and Dance Theatre, will be held at the Tianqiao in June