The World Gourmet Summit (WGS) returns for its 21st edition, and this year revolves around the theme titled United Nations Gastronomic Assembly (UNGA), uniting the great chefs of the world from 16 countries over four weeks! WGS is organised by A La Carte Productions, a division of Peter Knipp Holdings, a company dedicated to becoming a one-stop solution centre for all F&B and hospitality needs, … Continue reading World Gourmet Summit 2017
The 60s were a sexy, exciting time, as evidenced by Hairspray. But have you ever wondered just how fabulous things were in Singapore? In one of the biggest local productions since W!ld Rice’s Hotel, Tropicana brings together some of Singapore’s very best talent from the arts world to create a bang up period musical that’s bound to set hearts flutter and pine with nostalgia for the swingin’ 60s. … Continue reading Part 1 – Preview: Tropicana The Musical
It seems Phoebe Gloeckner’s graphic novel has seen a resurgence of interest in the past few years, with a film adaptation starring Bel Powley, Kristen Wiig and Alexander Skarsgard in 2015. The film’s director and writer Marielle Heller subsequently adapted the work for stage as well, and we see it presented here in Southwark Playhouse’s production. The Diary Of A Teenage Girl is a coming of … Continue reading Review: The Diary of a Teenage Girl at Southwark Playhouse
Chronicling 5 years in the life of ex-New Orleans Saints football defensive back Steve Gleason after being diagnosed with ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis), Gleason is an intimate look at the declining health of a man who had it all and the immense love and support he receives and an incredible strength within he uses to carry on living. Gleason’s story is a heartbreaking one: the film … Continue reading Review: Gleason dir. Clay Tweel
Henrik Ibsen’s classic play gets an update in this new adaptation by playwright Patrick Marber. Bringing the play to life is Ivan van Hove (director of the critically acclaimed A View From The Bridge), and presented by the National Theatre. Known as one of the great female roles in theatre history, Ruth Wilson stars as the titular Hedda Gabler in this production, daughter of an esteemed … Continue reading Review: Hedda Gabler by The National Theatre
The Singapore International Jazz Festival (Sing Jazz) returns to Marina Bay Sands for the fourth year running and is bigger and better than ever! For just one weekend, an all star lineup from Grammy Award winning artists to the hottest DJ acts will be in town to perform some seriously sizzling sets. Music lovers will be pleased to know that some of the biggest jazz … Continue reading Preview: Sing Jazz 2017
Having received critical acclaim when it played on Broadway, we were very excited about the premiere of Constellations in Singapore. Written by Nick Payne in 2012, Constellations is a love story set across parallel worlds in a multiverse, where protagonists Roland and Marianne engage with a series of possibilities and alternate realities. Roland (Edward Harrison) is an inhibited and introverted beekeeper, surrounded by creatures with a singular purposes in … Continue reading Review: Constellations by Singapore Repertory Theatre
I Light Marina Bay returns for the 5th year, and the annual light festival is bigger and better than ever! Organized by the Urban Redevelopment Authority, this year’s edition follows the theme of nature and the city, and Asia’s leading sustainable light art festival also features a programme full of exciting workshops, flea markets, music and of course this being Singapore, tons of food! We … Continue reading Review: I Light Marina Bay 2017
50 years ago, Tom Stoppard became an overnight sensation when Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead first premiered. The Old Vic plunges straight into its 2017 season with a welcome return to this absurdist play focusing on the two minor characters from Shakespeare’s Hamlet who meet their untimely doom over the course of the play. One of the biggest draws to this production of course, is its … Continue reading Review: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead at The Old Vic
It’s 2017, and though we’ve seen plenty of musicals heavily incorporating dance into their direction, from Billy Elliot to Half A Sixpence, it feels like the days of epic, creative Gene Kelly type numbers are gone forever. Enter An American In Paris, definitive proof that romance told through dance still very much has a place on stage. Based on the 1951 film of the same name, An American In Paris follows World War … Continue reading Review: An American in Paris at the Dominion Theatre
