There have been winners and clunkers in the Stephen King film canon. With the release of new horror comedy "The Monkey," ...

Multiple Stephen King stories have been adapted to the big and small screen this year, with one in particular standing out as ...

There’s a new hero in the world of opera, one with amazing superpowers, an unstoppable mission — and a tail. “The Monkey King,” created by composer Huang Ruo and librettist David Henry Hwang, hearkens ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The world premiere of The Monkey King at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco takes place on Friday. And on Wednesday night, KTVU was allowed to take a sneak preview of the ...

Composer Huang Ruo long dreamed of adapting the classic Chinese tale “Journey to the West” and its mythical character the Monkey King into an opera, but thought that ambition was a pipe dream. “I grew ...

Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang’s “The Monkey King,” based on “Journey to the West,” brings an old superhero to the opera stage. By Joshua Barone Reviewing from San Francisco Underestimate the Monkey ...

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The Monkey King, a mythical Chinese character created by Wu Cheng'en in his 16th-century novel "Journey to the West," has been portrayed in films, manga and video games. But the mischievous hero has ...

The Monkey King — known as Sun Wukong in Chinese — first burst fully-formed out of a rock in the classic 1592 novel Journey to the West, widely attributed to the poet Wu Cheng'en. Sponsor Message ...