北京人民艺术剧院的话剧《天下第一楼》,于1993年5月18日至6月4日,赴台湾进行了12场演出。作为大陆上首家带有商业性演出的剧团。在台北、台中两市的演出中,可谓盛况空前。在可容纳2650席位的台北“国父纪念馆大会堂”中,台湾同胞以40多年来从未有过的惊奇之感,兴致勃勃地观看着这部有着十足京味儿的话剧。事先,谁也不曾想到《天下第一楼》,这样一部借助中国美食文化而展现旧京风情的话剧能飘洋过海,到台湾去演出,因为,邀请单位“台湾新象文教基金会”与北京人艺最初接触时,打算把老舍的《茶馆》请到台湾去,可 Beijing People’s Art Theater drama “the best in the world”, from May 18, 1993 to June 4, went to Taiwan for 12 performances. As the mainland’s first theater company with commercial performances. In Taipei, Taichung, the performance of the two cities, can be described as unprecedented. In Taipei’s “Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall”, which accommodates 2,650 seats, Taiwan compatriots watched this full-fledged Beijing drama with a sense of wonder never seen before for more than 40 years. Beforehand, no one had ever thought of “the best in the world”. Such a drama featuring the Chinese food culture that shows the style of the old Beijing can go to Taiwan to perform because the invitation unit “Taiwan’s New Culture and Education Foundation” When it first came into contact with Peking Man’s Art, it planned to invite Lao She’s “tea house” to Taiwan