The "little theater", a Western theater movement that has exerted tremendous inftuence on Chinese spoken drama, is making inroads into traditional Chinese theaters as well. Major theaters such as Kunqu opera (崑劇), Peking opera (京劇), Shaoxing opera (越劇), Henan opera (豫劇), Sichuan opera (川劇) have appeared in the forms of little theater, subverting and renovating the age-old theaters. This paper attempts to show the innovative and revolutionary characters of this new trend by examining eight recent productions of Peking Opera on both sides of the Taiwan Strait: in Mainland China, Beijing Peking Opera Troupe's Yan Xijiao (《閻惜姣》), Splashing Water in Front of the Horse (《馬前潑水》), Zhejiang Peking Opera troupe's The Red Duster (《紅拂》), and Li Liuyi's "Heroine Trilogy" (Mu Guiying, Hua Mulan, and Liang Hongyu) (《巾幗英雄三部曲》:《穆桂英》、《花木蘭》、《梁紅玉》); in Taiwan, Guo Guang Opera Company's Wang Youdao Divorces His Wife (《王有道休妻》) and Dialogues in Front of Jaojun's Tomb (《青塚前的對話》).