What truly unites a people or a country, and how do we achieve this? Can union only come at the expense of excluding others? How much of it is embedded in shared trial and tragedy? As with every year, the Singapore arts calendar starts off on a high note with not one, not two, but an entire festival’s worth of works with each edition of … Continue reading Preview: M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2020 – My Country and My People
Frontier Danceland is back this November with a new edition of their annual MILIEU programme. Everybody loves a good story. Stories can be told in a myriad of ways: with the strokes of a brush, the rhythm of music, the movement of bodies. With MILIEU 2019, Frontier Danceland brings together two exciting choreographers – Marioenrico D’Angelo (Italy) and Sita Ostheimer (Germany), to share their new stories … Continue reading Preview: MILIEU 2019 by Frontier Danceland
The 22nd annual Singapore Writers Festival (SWF) returns this November with the theme “A Language of Our Own”. Now headed by new Festival Director Pooja Nansi, this edition seeks to examine the role of languages in the formation of identities and communities at a time when the world is becoming increasingly globalised, yet fractured, bringing together a host of influential writers from both Singapore and … Continue reading Singapore Writers Festival 2019: A Greater Focus on Language with A Language of Our Own (Preview)
Marina Bay Sands’ hallmark food and wine extravaganza, Epicurean Market, is making a highly anticipated comeback from 13 to 15 December, setting the stage for another gastronomical celebration this holiday season. In its sixth edition, Epicurean Market will introduce an unprecedented format which sees the best of both its exclusive Signature Series and ever-popular food and wine show. The three-day event will kick off with … Continue reading Preview: Epicurean Market 2019 at Marina Bay Sands
LONDON – Taking audiences back to 1979 when Britain was on the brink of political collapse for the second time in a decade, Parabolic Theatre’s thrilling live-action board game Crisis? What Crisis? comes to The Colab Factory this autumn. The innovative immersive theatre company cracks open the government machine to give participants the chance to get hands-on with the levers of power. Crisis? What Crisis? puts … Continue reading In London’s (Off) West End 2019: Parabolic Theatre’s Crisis? What Crisis at The Colab Factory (Preview)
If the Singapore theatre scene is to continue to grow, then it must lay the groundwork for the next generation of theatremakers to inherit it when the time comes. For local theatre company Toy Factory, they’ve taken on that responsibility in the form of The Wright Stuff Festival, making its return this October as they mentor the playwrights of tomorrow. The Wright Festival began with … Continue reading Preview: Toy Factory’s The Wright Stuff Festival 2019
A lavish opening for Voilah! 2019 Although never positioned as such, it feels as if the underlying theme of the individual battling insurmountable odds runs through the latest SSO Gala’s set. Opening the 2019 Voilah! France Singapore Festival, the concert invites internationally celebrated conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy along with French cellist Gautier Capuçon to perform two pieces by Schumann, and a Tchaikovsky symphony to finish. The gala … Continue reading Voilah! 2019: SSO Gala – Vladimir Ashkenazy & Gautier Capuçon (Review)
“In a century torn by war, one man’s integrity burns like a flame.” This year, coinciding with the Bicentennial, Musical Theatre Limited presents a brand new musical – the first-ever musical about Dr Lim Boon Keng, one of Singapore’s most prominent public figures during the Colonial period. Dr Lim Boon Keng is considered one of Singapore’s most prominent historical figures, responsible for helping shape Singapore’s … Continue reading Preview: Lim Boon Keng – The Musical by Musical Theatre Limited
For three spook-tacular days this October, Halloween thrill-seekers can delight in a spine-chilling gastronomic extravanganza at PARKROYAL on Pickering’s acclaimed Lime restaurant. From 25th to 27th October 2019, the fourth instalment of the popular Halloween Scare-Feast will again provide intrepid diners with a creative culinary take on the October fright-fest as Chef Yap Wai Lunn serves up a spine-tingling repertoire of homemade dishes created to … Continue reading Hotels & Holidays: A Feast to Die For at PARKROYAL on Pickering
Giving the fans exactly what they want at their tour’s only Southeast Asian stop. There’s something altogether fascinating that each time entertainers who’ve made it big via a medium such as music, podcasts or video, they’re compelled to translate that to the most universal and timeless medium of all – live entertainment. For as much as one can accumulate billions of views on one’s YouTube … Continue reading Laughter Is: The Try Guys Legends of the Internet Tour 2019 (Review)
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