Four people tell a story. Three are true but one is a lie. Listen. Laugh. Interrogate. Vote. Can you spot the liar? If you watch the above video, you should be able to get a pretty decent idea of how the Perfect Liars Club works. Similar to the game where people introduce themselves with two truths and one lie, this part theatre part storytelling experience … Continue reading Review: Perfect Liars Club
The Necessary Stage makes their foray into the Chinese theatre scene in this special commission for the annual Huayi Festival! Actor, Forty features Golden Horse Award-winning actress Yeo Yann Yann returning to the stage in a brand new monologue in collaboration TNS’ Alvin Tan and Haresh Sharma. Actor, Forty promises an honest, informal and conversational look at the way we take on various identities throughout our lives, similar … Continue reading Huayi Festival 2017: Actor, Forty by The Necessary Stage (Preview)
The VAULT Festival continues with its second week, bringing us even more off kilter, fringe works. Today, we caught surreal family drama Crocodile where baby blues get more than a little out of hand, and Happy, a musical about chemsex, addiction and depression. Crocodile by Joyous Gard In the grand literary tradition of bizarre transformations from the likes of Ionesco’s Rhinoceros to Kafka’s Metamorphosis, Joyous Gard carries on that … Continue reading VAULT Festival 2017: Crocodiles and Chemsex (1/2/17)
Theatre company Joyous Gard is headed by the spectacular sibling duo of Joe and Beth Eyre. Crocodile will be their debut production, after already accumulating a slew of theatre credits in their career, and premieres this February at the VAULT Fringe Festival (London). Crocodile is a darkly surreal comedy about a couple that gives birth to a crocodile, but are nonetheless determined to bring up baby properly, and … Continue reading VAULT Festival 2017: Crocodile by Joyous Gard (Preview)
The Esplanade has always been renowned for bringing in world-class acts at its amazing concert hall and theatre. They’ve got an exciting year ahead too, with a slew of shows at the 2017 Huayi Chinese Festival of the Arts right after Chinese New Year and Dream Academy’s Detention Katong from 17 Feb. But one thing that’s always bugged us is how there’s a severe lack of … Continue reading Esplanade Annexe: An All New Food Extravaganza Where Art x Life
Billed as a family friendly musical, you’d be surprised to know that it was none other than the great Andrew Lloyd Webber who penned the score, along with lyrics by longtime collaborator Tim Rice, who also wrote lyrics for musicals like The Lion King and Chess. As one of their earlier works, Joseph is nothing too complicated, more or less faithfully retelling the Biblical tale of Joseph and … Continue reading Review: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat by Bill Kenwright (UK Tour)
Chicago is one of the sexiest, most exciting musicals to come off Broadway, and this 2017, finally returns to our shores! Set in the roaring 20s, Chicago is based on real life events and follows struggling nightclub singer Roxie Hart’s meteoric rise to fame after she shoots her lover. Befriending cunning double-murderess Velma Kelly in the cell, the femme fatales enlist the help of smooth talking lawyer Billy … Continue reading Preview: Chicago @ Marina Bay Sands
Coming in fresh from a sellout run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, musical improv team Waiting For The Call presents Notflix, a nightly performance where the team reimagines your favourite film as a completely original musical! Notflix starts off with picking a film at random, with choices drawn from a bucket of slips audience members filled out before the show. This was their second night performing at the … Continue reading VAULT Festival 2017: Notflix by Waiting For The Call
Dream Academy presents an all new original musical comedy written and directed by Selena Tan! Set in the fictitious Geylang Girls Secondary School, this new musical is all about those angsty, difficult teenage years. From pimples to ponytails, boys to breaking the rules, this is one story that’ll appeal to both the young and young at heart. Detention Katong stars theatre stalwarts Suhaimi Yusoff, Neo … Continue reading Preview: Detention Katong by Dream Academy
Over the last eighteen months, eight young theatre makers trained under the directorship of Rodney Oliveiro and Serena Ho, cumulating in an all new batch of young & w!ld graduates. Now, they’re about to release their first public performance to showcase what they’re made of. Crossings is a fully devised double bill, consisting stories, characters and themes created by the young & w!ld batch via improv … Continue reading Preview: Crossings by young & w!ld
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