Whatever you are looking for, the first place to go to is the Hong Kong ticketing website or the HK Ticketing. Here you can order/book your tickets for most of the shows going in Hong Kong whether it is a play, a concert, or an opera.

The other place to check out if you want to learn some performing arts is the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts where you will find everything about dance, drama music, theatre and opera in Hong Kong. For more info go here.

Theatre

For rather small but good plays, you may want to go to Hong Kong Players:

• Hong Kong Players
  GPO Box 8218, Hong Kong
  Website: www.hongkongplayers.com/
• Chung Ying Theatre
  Tel: (852) 3961 9800
  Email: info@chungying.com
  Website: www.chungying.com/
• Fringe Club
  2 Lower Albert Road
  Central, Hong Kong
  Website: www.hkfringe.com.hk

Hong Kong has the first fulltime comedy club in Asia for stand-up comedy:

• The TakeOut Comedy Club Hong Kong
  34 Elgin Street, basement
  Central, Hong Kong
  Website: www.takeoutcomedy.com

Opera

The opera Hong Kong is an internationally prominent one and you would find there all sorts of productions but of course what is more attractive and more specific to Hong Kong are Chinese Opera and in particular Cantonese Opera which are becoming rarer and rarer. Like all Chinese Operas, it involves music, singing, martial arts, acrobatics, and acting. Needless to say that the martial arts are quite different than the ones we can find in western operas!

The Cantonese Operas differ from the usual Chinese in the skills and methods used but you have to be an expert after a while to be able to tell the difference!

If you want to find out more about the shows at Opera Hong Kong, here is where to look: Opera Hong Kong
Rm 1907, 19/F, Pacific Plaza
410 Des Voeux Road West
Hong Kong
Tel: 2234 0303
Fax: 2234 0505
Email: enquiry@operahongkong.org
Website:www.operahongkong.org/

The other opera you may want to check out is the Opera Society of Hong Kong: Opera Society of Hong Kong
Website:www.opera.org.hk

Museum

There are numerous museums and alikes in Hong Kong so do not worry, you will not get bored!

The good idea is to get a Museum Weekly Pass for HK$30 for some museums (the biggest ones). With this card, you can visit these museums as much as you can for a week. Contact the Hong Kong Tourism Board for more info.

Here is a non-exhaustive list of some of the most popular museums in Hong Kong:

• Dr Sun Yat-sen Museum (Dr Sun Yat-sen Museum Guided Tour)
  Kom Tong Hall
  7 Castle Road,
  Central, Hong Kong
  Website: hk.drsunyatsen.museum
• Hong Kong Heritage Museum (Cantonese Opera Appreciation Class)
  1 Man Lam Road
  Sha Tin, Hong Kong
  Website: www.heritagemuseum.gov.hk
• Hong Kong Museum of Art
  10 Salisbury Road
  Kowloon, Hong Kong
  Tel: (852) 2721 0116
  Website: www.lcsd.gov.hk
• Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence
  Website: www.lcsd.gov.hk/hkmcd/
• Hong Kong Museum of History ("The Hong Kong Story" Exhibition Guided Tour)
  100 Chatham Road South, Tsim Sha Tsui
  Kowloon, Hong Kong
  Website: http://hk.history.museum/
• Hong Kong Science Museum
  Tsim Sha Tsui East
  Kowloon Peninsula, Hong Kong
  Website: http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/Museum/Science/
• Hong Kong Space Museum
  10 Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui
  Kowloon, Hong Kong
  Website: http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/Museum/Space/e_index.htm