About Dr. Dennis Law

Dr. Dennis Law retired from a career as a well-known surgeon in Denver, Colorado in 2001.  Dr. Law started in the field of entertainment by producing Warriors of Virtue in 1996, a high budget family feature film distributed by MGM, Warner Brothers and Columbia Artist worldwide.  In China, he also produced a prize-winning CCTV children’s film Xiwa as well as the acclaimed television series April Rhapsody.  After the acquisition of The Centre in Vancouver for Performing Arts in 2002, Dr. Law became the C.E.O. and President of The Centre and its associated production company Sight, Sound & Action.  Dr. Law has utilized The Centre to act as a launching site for a new genre of musical theater known as Action-Musical.  In order to support these unique productions, he owns the theatrical production company in Beijing, Law Brothers Chinese Performing Arts International.  Since 2002, nine Action-Musicals (Of Heaven & Earth, Terracotta Warriors, Senses, Heartbeat, Tang Concubines, Phoenixia, Heartbeat Hawaii, Monkey King and Senses, Las Vegas Ed.) have been performed nearly a thousand times in major venues of many cities of North America and China, a feat that is without equal in the history of Chinese performing arts abroad.  In 2005, Dr. Law was nominated for a Toronto Dora Award for Best Direction of a Musical for the show Heartbeat.  In addition, among three shows that were entered into competition for these Dora Awards, the productions gathered a total of seven nominations, while Tang Concubines won Dora Awards for Best Costume Design and Best Choreography in 2007 and Monkey King won for Best Choreography in 2010.   During the summer of 2008, three Sight, Sound & Action productions were mounted in thirty-seven performances as an Action-Musical Festival to celebrate the occasion of the Beijing Olympic Games.   The world premiere of the first Chinese Rock-Musical, Monkey King, was history making for Chinese musical theater both in Beijing and worldwide.  In 2011, Monkey King became the first theatrical work ever to be shot and produced as a 3D high-definition movie and Blue-Ray DVD, and this 3D cinematic version went on to win the Best Foreign Film Award at the Korean 3D Film Festival in 2012.  Dr. Law continues to dedicate himself to giving Chinese performing arts a proud legacy in the international marketplace.  His current production of Terracotta Warriors 3D truly makes entertainment history by being the first 3D theatrical show ever.