Gear up for another year of quality theatre from SRT. Although we mourn the lack of their annual Shakespeare in the Park, we’re more than delighted at their lineup this year, featuring some of the most exciting new plays off Broadway, along with an older local favourite from a few years back… SRT starts off 2017 with English writer Nick Payne’s Constellations, which had fangirls … Continue reading Preview: SRT’s 2017 Season
Contemporary art, for the most part, is baffling. Whether it’s the abstract paintings of Rothko or Pollack, or the in your face attitude of Koons and Hirst, it’s easy to feel like there’s something missing in the era of modern art that the old masters possessed. The premise of Yasmina Reza’s Art starts with the purchase of one such painting, a seemingly blank, pure white canvas, with … Continue reading Review: Art at The Old Vic
Transferring to London from a sold-out season in New York, Nice Fish sets a high precedent for itself. Written by Academy Award winner and ex-artistic director of the Globe Mark Rylance alongside Minnesotan contemporary prose poet Louis Jenkins, Nice Fish is based off Rylance’s life growing up in the freezing American Midwest, and for the most part, features two friends out on an ice-fishing trip musing about … Continue reading Review: Nice Fish at the Harold Pinter Theatre
2017 marks the FIFTH year Pangdemonium introduced their Season Ticket, allowing buyers priority booking to all three of their shows in 2017 for some great seats. This year, they’ve added two new categories – a cheaper season ticket that gives you Cat 2 seats to all shows, as well as a premier, VIP category, which will grant exclusive access to meets and greets with cast … Continue reading Preview: Pangdemonium 2017 Season
It’s honestly surprising how it’s taken this long to bring Dreamgirls to the West End (a whopping 35 years since its debut on Broadway), but when you have a show with such high production value, the wait was well worth it! Inspired by R&B groups such as The Supremes, Dreamgirls follows the rise of fictitious R&B girl group The Dreams as they grow up and find their way in … Continue reading Review: Dreamgirls at the Savoy Theatre
Famed for bringing in world-class international cuisine, the exciting World Gourmet Summit returns to our shores for its 21st edition next March! This time, with a focus on sustainability, the WGS will unite more than 30 restaurants and 12 international chefs to form the “United National Gastronomy Assembly” (#UNGA). Chefs will be featured from countries from the likes of Canada, Hungary, Vietnam and Cuba, promising … Continue reading Preview: World Gourmet Summit 2017
After bringing you a preview of week 1’s offerings (hyperlink here), here’s week 2’s list of shows at the 2017 M1 Singapore Fringe Festival! Pretty Butch by Tan Liting Director Tan Liting takes on portrayals of gender in this ensemble performance featuring five characters grappling with living on the edge of masculinity and femininity in a society that harasses them for it. Pretty Butch explores the possibility … Continue reading Preview: M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2017 – Art & Skin (Week 2)
Passerby Projects’ latest production features a collaboration with Dream Bravely, with an original script by writer Sarah Howell, who also directed the piece that melds the mysteries of the internet with a mysterious death. In Search of Salt follows Gaya (Alison Wong), whose younger sister Sel passes a few months before the events of the play. Gaya begins to receive mysterious Facebook messages from her supposedly deceased … Continue reading Review: In Search of Salt by Passerby Projects and Dream Bravely
December is a period that’s often fraught with big commercial plays and musicals to capitalise on the Christmas spirit. Sometimes you get tired of all that, and need something a little more sincere, honest and heartfelt. And that’s why Dear Jay is a breath of fresh air and one production you should be catching. Blue Bean Productions’ inaugural production Dear Jay follows Leonard (Benedict Leong), a young man … Continue reading Review: Dear Jay by Blue Bean Productions
Tinged with a little controversy (as all good Fringe festivals should be), the 2017 M1 Singapore Fringe Festival starts off the year with a bang, offering some truly odd, unusual and amazing art from Singapore and all around the world. Taking place over two weeks from 4-15 January 2017, here’s our preview of the first week’s activities to give you an idea of what to … Continue reading Preview: M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2017 – Art & Skin (Week 1)
