actor or actress / performer / CL: 個｜个, 位, 名

to act (in a play) / to perform / to put on (a performance) / performance / concert / show / CL: 場｜场, 次

play / show / performance / exhibition / to perform / to act / to demonstrate / CL: 場｜场

to direct / director (film etc)

lecture / to make a speech

(of a story etc) to unfold / to play out / to develop (a technique etc) / to enact / (logic) to deduce / to infer

to play the role of / to act

to develop / to evolve / development / evolution

to perform on a musical instrument

maneuver / exercise / practice / to maneuver

vocal recital or concert

sung performance / to sing for an audience

to demonstrate / to show / presentation / demonstration

to develop / to evolve / to practice / to perform / to play / to act

to act the leading role (in a movie or a play) / to star / lead actor

to do a drill / to practice / training / drill

to act / to play a part

to screen (a movie) / to stage (a play) / a screening / a staging

performing arts

to evolve / evolution

acting / performing skills

to dramatize historical events / novel or play on historical theme

to appear (in a show etc) / an appearance (on stage etc)

broadcast performance / televised or podcast lecture

road show or promotional tour (for a product etc)

speech / to deliver a speech

evolution / gradual forward progress

Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong 羅貫中｜罗贯中, one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature / a fictional account of the Three Kingdoms at the break-up of the Han around 200 AD, consistently portraying Liu Bei's Shu Han 劉備｜刘备, 蜀漢｜蜀汉 as virtuous heroes and Cao Cao's Wei 曹操, 魏 as tyrannical villains

keynote speech

to put on a play / to perform / fig. to pretend / to feign

(PPT etc) presentation

show business

film director

broadcasting studio

role-playing game (RPG)

ever more critical / problems get more and more intense

maiden stage role / first performance / first public showing

leading actors (in a show) / starring

deductive reasoning

military exercises

piano performance

(theater etc) to tour / to be on tour / to give itinerant performances / abbr. for 巡迴演出｜巡回演出

to recur (of events, esp. adverse ones) / to repeat (a performance)

joint performance

theatrical performance / CL: 場｜场

to perform (e.g. on the stage) / to lecture

Investiture of the Gods, major Ming dynasty vernacular novel of mythology and fantasy, very loosely based on King Wu of Zhou's 周武王 overthrow of the Shang, subsequent material for opera, film, TV series, computer games etc

clade (biology)

to deduce / to infer / to derive / an implication

Dramatized History of Sui and Tang, novel by Qing dynasty author Chu Renhuo 褚人獲｜褚人获

to give a speech

exhibition match

performer

movie actor / movie actress

to lecture / to speak publicly

to rehearse (a performance)

inaugural lecture

military exercise / war game

commercial performance

keynote speech

cast (of a movie etc) / lineup of performers / troupe

joint military exercise

to perform a play

dummy run / to run through sth / to rehearse

performer / musician

performing arts circles / show business

benefit performance / charity show

to act together / to put on a joint performance

entertainer / performer

(of a play, movie etc) to begin

orator

to calculate / to perform calculations

(dialect) to perform / to act (in a play etc)

enka (Japanese genre of sentimental ballads)

an extra (in a movie)

acrobat

stuntman

inversion (geometry)

encore / to give an extra performance

inaugural speech

arms drill / to practice martial arts

to go on stage

audition / dress rehearsal / preview (of a theatrical performance) / dummy run

fashion show

succession (of changes in an ecological community) / naturally evolving sequence

performance place / CL: 處｜处

(theater etc) to tour / to be on tour / to give itinerant performances

drill / exercise / demonstration / to demonstrate

to prohibit performance

orator / speaker

substitute actor (esp. in fights of theatrical stunts) / stuntman

(of an actor) to bring (one's character) to life / to act brilliantly

to be intensifying / to be getting worse and worse / to start to run rampant

the theory of evolution (early translation, since replaced by 進化論｜进化论)

to repeat an old stratagem / up to one's old tricks

to plan a military mission on a sand table (idiom) / to rehearse a planned action or activity / to conduct a dry run

ventriloquist

Dramatized history of Republican China until 1927 by Cai Dongfan 蔡東藩｜蔡东藩, and later chapters by Xu Qinfu 許廑父｜许廑父

Dramatized history of successive dynasties (from Han to Republican China) by Cai Dongfan 蔡東藩｜蔡东藩

variant of 敷衍 / to elaborate (on a theme) / to expound (the meaning of the classics)