Huang Ruo’s “The Monkey King,” based on an episode from the 16th century Chinese novel “Journey to the West,” will be given ...

The Monkey King composer, Huang Ruo, was inspired to write the opera to give his children a superhero figure from Asia to look up to.

the composer said. He decided to write “The Monkey King,” based on an episode from the 16th century Chinese novel “Journey to the West” in which a primate born from stone acquires ...

Composer Huang Ruo's latest work, The Monkey King, will have its world premiere at the San Francisco Opera on November 14.

In November, the season boasts “The Monkey King.” Based on 16th-century stories from the Chinese novel “Journey to the West,” the title character, Sun Wukong, wreaks havoc on the heavens ...

In 49 years since the release of Brian De Palma’s Carrie, Stephen King adaptations have existed ... we seen something like Osgood Perkins’ The Monkey: a terrific blend of pitch black ...

While Tristan’s (Callum Woodhouse) military assignment of pigeon breeding meets a formidable obstacle in Duncan Preston’s curmudgeonly enthusiast, Siegfried (Samuel West) is faced with a mangy ...

It’s a truism that Longlegs writer/director Osgood Perkins elevates with equal measures of nuance and brute force in The Monkey: an explosive, delightfully gory adaptation of the Stephen King ...

The Monkey, based on a Stephen King short story, has critics praising its horror and gore. The Monkey has impressed critics with mentions of Final Destination and Gremlins as references.

It also feels like a challenge, as if the monkey — be it his unblinking gaze or the truly outrageous gore he unfurls — dares you to look away. Like King's short story, The Monkey centers on a ...