First written by Chinese theatre doyen Kuo Pao Kun as a play, Lao Jiu has since seen 2 more revivals in 2005 and 2012, reincarnated as a showstopping musical. This time around, The Theatre Practice returns with a new staging of the hit show, and boy were we glad we managed to catch it. Lao Jiu (Sugie Phua), literally “the ninth child”, is the first and only … Continue reading Review: Laojiu The Musical by The Theatre Practice
Original Impact is proud to present the latest playful take on Shakespeare’s classic cross-dressing comedy – Twelfth Night! Directed by Sam Dustan, Twelfth Night recounts the events after a horrific storm separates brother and sister, leaving Viola in an unknown land and needing to protect herself….by dressing up as a man?! Bubbling with energy and youthfulness, expect a multimedia production with live music, bold physicality and sharp comedy, … Continue reading Preview: Twelfth Night by Original Impact
Esplanade’s 2017 PLAYtime! series features Fatimah and Her Magic Socks, adapted from the children’s book of the same name. Aimed at children aged 2-4 years old, Fatimah will convey the message of acceptance through a simple analogy of mismatched socks. The PLAYtime! series is an interactive experience and will appeal to kids with the 360 degree action, with actors weaving in and out of the audience, and audience members … Continue reading Preview: Fatimah and her Magic Socks by The Esplanade
If you’re a fan of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera, then you’re in for a real treat this May with not one but three former Phantoms performing onstage at the same time. They will be joined onstage by acclaimed Broadway and West End stars like Earl Carpenter, who was recently seen in the Singapore run of Les Misérables as Javert, Kieran Brown, David Shannon, Alastair Barron, Oliver Brereton, … Continue reading Preview: A Night at The Musical with Three Phantoms
Parents, please don’t take your kids to see this show, thinking that it’s as innocent as Sesame Street. It’s not. Robert Askins’ Hand To God is anything but godly, and makes it Singaporean debut with the Singapore Repertory Theatre at last, and will overturn everything you thought you knew about puppets and instill you with a deep fear of your inner demons…or perhaps even the devil himself. … Continue reading Review: Hand To God by Singapore Repertory Theatre
How much impact does your childhood really have on you? Plenty, as Resilience, a short but effective film tracing the relationship between childhood trauma and its lasting health impacts well into adulthood proves. More than ten years ago, Dr Robert Anda and Dr Vincent Felitti discovered their patients experiencing various behavioural, weight gain and heart disease issues all had things in common – histories of exposure … Continue reading Review: Resilience dir. James Redford
W!ld Rice has always been known to be one of the glitziest theatre companies in Singapore, but with its restaging of Harvey Fierstein’s La Cage Aux Folles, it can safely walk away with the title of the brightest – what with its one THOUSAND lightbulb set, framing the stage in a cage pattern reflecting the translation of the play’s title (the “caged madwoman”). But the set wasn’t … Continue reading Review: La Cage Aux Folles by W!ld Rice
We fell in love with Fringe type shows this year, and with the summer season hot on our heels, there’s no better, brighter time to be alive than at upcoming fringe festivals such as the Wandsworth Fringe and Brighton Fringe, where Iain Gibbons, last seen as a doctor in Rounds at the Blue Elephant Theatre, will be performing his solo show The Performance. And on 10 May, Bric A … Continue reading Preview: The Performance/Just Lose It
Coming hot on the heels of his Best Actor win at the recent Straits Times Life! Theatre Awards, Andrew Marko stars in yet another affecting play that not only tugs at audiences’ heartstrings, but also delivers a very powerful message about mental illness. In this solo show, Marko, brimming with boundless energy, stars as an unnamed six year old growing up with a depressed mother. … Continue reading Review: Every Brilliant Thing by Bhumi Collective
What exactly was it like when we mention the swinging 60s then, in our island city? Tropicana The Musical is here to bring audiences a taste of the sex, freedom and glitz of that era. The brainchild of producer and veteran actress Tan Kheng Hua, Tropicana The Musical was inspired by the real Las Vegas-style night club that first opened its doors to the public in 1968 in Orchard … Continue reading Review: Tropicana The Musical
