Designed by the world-renowned architect Zaha Hadid, the Nanjing Poly Grand Theater is an ultra- modern facility in Nanjing. A bird-eye view reveals a spacecraft, which symbolizes that the youth should ride winds and waves and forge ahead. From its inception on Oct. 2, 2014 to October 2020, it held nearly 4600 performance events to an audience of 850,000. The 1,917-seat theater has 13 medium and high-end dressing rooms, and one VIP room.Over the past six years, the Nanjing Poly Grand Theater has continuously introduced quality performances from all over the world. It has become an important performing venue in Nanjing by hosting top artists like Winton Marsalis, Richard Clayman and Mikhail Pletnev, world-renowned orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra, the Russian National Symphony Orchestra, the French Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Czech Philharmonic and the Shakespeare Globe Theatre, and popular musicals such as The Sound of Music, The Bodyguard and Chicago.