A scene from ‘The Nightingale’ (photo: Fernando Gambaroni)

Written in 1843, Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Nightingale” is about an emperor in China who captures a nightingale that lives in his garden. At first enamored by the bird’s beautiful song, the emperor decides to keep the nightingale until he is given a gift of a mechanical bird. The emperor forgets about the nightingale, replacing her with this mechanical facsimile. The nightingale flies away to her home in the garden, but when the emperor is taken ill, the nightingale returns to sing to him.

From June 6-22, this enchanting tale comes to the stage of the Children’s Creativity Museum in a revolutionary new way, as a circus performance. The People’s Circus Theater will present the story of “The Nightingale” with the acrobatic ch

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