Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An early rehearsal for Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang's "The Monkey King" with the Monkey puppet. (Cory Weaver/San Francisco ...

SAN FRANCISCO — A rascally superhero born from a stone egg, the Monkey King is beloved in Chinese mythology, appearing in everything from a 16th century epic to modern comics, animated movies and ...

The Monkey King is having a moment in America — and it's been centuries in the making. The Monkey King — known as Sun Wukong in Chinese — first burst fully-formed out of a rock in the classic 1592 ...

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 ...