Mamma Mia – here we go again, as the hit ABBA jukebox musical returns to Singapore this week! Last staged in 2018 to glowing reviews, Mamma Mia! is Judy Craymer’s ingenious vision of staging the story-telling magic of ABBA’s timeless songs with a sunny, funny tale of a mother, a daughter and three possible dads unfolding on a Greek island idyll. Mamma Mia! remains one … Continue reading Preview: Mamma Mia! by BASE Entertainment Asia
A testament to the ceaseless persistence of the essence of dance. Founded in 2008, for over fourteen years now, China’s TAO Dance Theater has been exploring the very essence of dance itself. Led by artistic directors Tao Ye, Duan Ni and Wang Hao, the company has distilled the art of dance to its core aspects, manifested as minimalist productions that focus entirely on the infinite … Continue reading ★★★★★ Review: 13 & 14 by TAO Dance Theater
At its quaint location just off Ann Siang Hill, the Singapore wing of WOAW Gallery has gone back to basics with their latest exhibition. With the interior now completely white and leaving most of its cube-like space open to walk about, London-based artist Murray Clarke’s photorealistic paintings are given total attention, hung on the walls in their full glory. Marking his first solo exhibition in … Continue reading Art What!: Murray Clarke’s A Place I Know at WOAW Gallery
The second part of National Gallery Singapore’s free exhibition See Me, See You: Early Video Installation of Southeast Asia is now open, bringing visitors a new line-up of refreshed works by five artists – Heri Dono (Indonesia), Krisna Murti (Indonesia), Hasnul Saidon (Malaysia), Ray Langenbach (USA/Malaysia) and Vincent Leow (Singapore). This is the world’s first-ever retrospective survey of early video installation of Southeast Asia, uncovering new perspectives of the region’s history of video installation art. As … Continue reading Art What!: See Me, See You – Early Video Installation of Southeast Asia (Part 2) at National Gallery Singapore
Love and survival in the Weimar Republic. In a country with strict rules and authoritarian government, where does one find peace, comfort and release? The answer to that lies in the freedom of a club, offering a safe space for self-expression, for entertainment at the end of a long day, and perhaps even to learn something new, as encapsulated in Kander and Ebb’s classic musical … Continue reading ★★★★★ Review: Cabaret by Sing’theatre
Double crossing moles and a convoluted revenge plots weigh down this cross-country collaborative effort. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, international theatre collaborations are few and far between. But with things finally more or less back to normal, opportunities have risen once again for old friendships to be reignited, and projects once shelved to be put back on the production line once more. In the works since … Continue reading ★★★☆☆ Review: Immortal Variables (八仙变数) by Nine Years Theatre and Hsing Legend Youth Theatre (Contemporary Legend Theatre)
As the daughter of legendary Indian classical dance artists K.P. Bhaskar and Santha Bhaskar, Meenakshy Bhaskar has a lot to live up to when she took over Bhaskar’s Arts Academy as Artistic Director. In her first year, she found herself fully helming the projects her mother had been working on, dealing with collaborators and stakeholders, and most of all, learning the ropes of what it … Continue reading An Interview with Meenakshy Bhaskar, choreographer of Bhaskar’s Arts Academy’s ‘Radin Mas’
After their sold-out performance at da:ns festival nine years ago, the acclaimed TAO Dance Theater is set to take the stage at Esplanade once again as part of da:ns focus – Connect Asia Now (CAN), a weekend that spotlights contemporary dance works by Asian artists focusing on distinct voices and creative impulses from the region. Presenting a double bill of two works choreographed by TAO Dance Theater … Continue reading da:ns focus 2023: An Interview with Tao Ye on movement, performance, and his signature ‘Numerical Series’
In what is one of the most feel-good musicals to come to Singapore this year, the Michael and BASE Entertainment Asia’s production of West End smash-hit & Juliet has delighted local fans to no end. Bringing together songs by Max Martin, who’s produced some of pop’s greatest hits, from Britney Spears’ .’..Baby One More Time’ to Katy Perry’s ‘Roar’, Ariana Grande and Iggy Azalea’s ‘Problem’ … Continue reading I Want It That Way: An Interview with ‘& Juliet’ stars Lorinda May Merrypor, Jesse Dutlow and Blake Appelqvist
GOFY, a Singapore-grown creative community uniting urban artists from the Southeast Asian (SEA) region, is proud to present the second edition of For Art’s Sake (FAS) with artworks installed in 21 commercial venues across the island. Spurred by the success of the inaugural edition in 2021, GOFY has gathered 63 emerging artists from six countries with a total contribution of 80 art prints to do … Continue reading Art What!: GOFY returns for second edition of For Art’s Sake, with 63 emerging Southeast Asian urban artists
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