Formed in 1988, under the leadership of Qi Shu Fang, the Qi Shu Fang Peking Opera Company consists of top leading musicians and actors from China, and maintains the highest professional standards in performing and promoting the Chinese theatrical tradition, Peking Opera. The Qi Shu Fang Peking Opera Company has not only performed before appreciative audiences in the Chinese community, but also played to sold-out house at the Symphony Space in 1990 and for six consecutive years, participated in Lincoln Center's "From Chinatown with Love." In addition, Qi Shu Fang and her company have staged performances and lecture demonstrations at various colleges and universities including Harvard, Yale, Columbia, New York University and Swarthmore College.

Qi Shu Fang's Peking Opera Company is a lightning-bolt reminder of what theater in its deepest theatricality is all about. Astonishing acrobatics are expected in Peking Opera. The whirling and tumbling aren't just great gymnastics, they are levitated emotion. The acting is highly stylized, therefore quite real; there's a lot of knockout humor, as well as romance and the martial arts. This is true spectacle, but spectacle that comes from subtle, breath-catching human skills making many worlds out of an almost bare stage. Broadway should get on its knees.