The Esplanade has an all new playground for visitors to hang, whether or not you’re attending an event or just want to chill out – enter the Esplanade Annexe, the latest arts and lifestyle wing of the Esplanade full of food, shops and culture! To celebrate the opening, the Esplanade invites YOU down to their Open House this May! Over one weekend, the new Annexe … Continue reading Preview: Esplanade Annexe Open House
For the first time since their inception, Pangdemonium! will be presenting an original play – TANGO by acclaimed local playwright Joel Tan! Receiving its world premiere in May, TANGO was inspired by true events from the blog “4 Relative Strangers” by James Williams, the pseudonym for the real Koh-Waites who outraged a Chinese restaurant in Singapore who couldn’t accept their presence as the adopted parents of two sons. … Continue reading Preview: TANGO by Pangdemonium!
Created by American performance artist and director Kate March, I AM is a passionate, all female creative collective based in Hong Kong that’ve won critical acclaim for their immersive and interactive theatre experiences, combining fashion, dance, live art and music that appeals to the modern, metropolitan theatre goer with their boundless imagination. In Love Pings, the ladies of I AM narrate the story of Hong Kong’s … Continue reading Preview: Love Pings by I AM
The Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre presents the inaugural SCCC Cultural Extravaganza this May. Titled 华彩2017, visitors will be able to participate and enjoy a myriad of activities lined up from 20 to 27 May in conjunction with the centre’s opening, celebrating the history and culture of the Chinese. Opening the festival will be award-winning local filmmaker and Cultural Extravaganza artistic director Royston Tan with the very … Continue reading Preview: Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre’s First Cultural Extravaganza (华彩2017)
New theatre company be•wilder consists of international artists and graduates of RADA’s MA theatre programme, and are proud to present their debut production inspired by Brexit and the refugee crisis: Old Joe’s Fish ‘n’ Chill. Set in a once glorious, all-inclusive club famous for its fish and chips, Old Joe’s has since been hit by a terrorist attack, left for dead. Yet it remains the only … Continue reading Preview: Old Joe’s Fish and Chill by be•wilder
Following the runaway success of the Tony Award winning Spring Awakening was never going to be an easy task, but that is the burden that Whisper House bears. Duncan Sheik’s next musical is considerably shorter and much more contained, with just a cast of six in its two act duration. Whisper House is a somewhat experimental musical. For one thing, its subject matter is a little unexpected – a … Continue reading Review: Whisper House at The Other Palace Theatre
The Rose Playhouse, the London Bankside’s first Tudor theatre, is proud to present the world premiere of Laura Turner’s The Buried Moon! Directed by Almeida Theatre Resident Director Jake Smith, The Buried Moon reimagines two characters from Shakespeare’s final play – Miranda and Caliban from The Tempest. Set in the Lincolnshire fens which is said to have inspired Caliban, a young woman struggling to relate to her father after her … Continue reading Preview: The Buried Moon at the Rose Playhouse
Hailing from Naples in the south of Italy, the world’s oldest opera house Teatro Di San Carlo presented a brilliant performance of Giselle at Mastercard Theatres this weekend. Often considered one of the great classical ballets, Giselle is a technically demanding piece, and dancers who have mastered the role hailed as brilliant in the annals of history. With such prestige to their name, Teatro Di San Carlo did not … Continue reading Review: Giselle by Teatro Di San Carlo
Based on the popular children’s book of the same name by theatre practitioner Zizi Azah, The Esplanade presents a glorious stage adaptation directed by Daniel Jenkins that tingles with creativity with its all star creative team. Spreading the message of acceptance with the simple story of a pair of mismatched socks, Fatimah follows our young heroine with a sunny disposition who dares to be different. When told … Continue reading Review: Fatimah and her Magic Socks by The Esplanade
“If music be the food of love, play on.” The immortal lines mark the beginning of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, and in Original Impact’s latest production at the Blue Elephant Theatre, have never rang more true. Director Sam Dunstan’s take on the classic tale of crossdressing and mistaken identity is given a distinctly teenage makeover here, with the play opening to the tropical beats of Ed Sheeran’s ‘Shape of You’ … Continue reading Review: Twelfth Night by Original Impact
