W!ld Rice is starting off the year with a bang, with a restaging of Harvey Fierstein’s La Cage Aux Folles, last staged at the Esplanade by W!ld Rice in 2012. Winning the 2013 Life! Theatre Award for Production of the Year, La Cage will once again feature Ivan Heng in the lead role as Albin – a family man by day, lascivious drag extraordinaire Zaza by night, … Continue reading Preview: La Cage Aux Folles by W!ld Rice
In 1999, The Necessary Stage worked with Singapore’s first openly HIV-positive person Paddy Chew to devise a monologue titled Completely With/Out Character, depicting Paddy’s experiences. Though well received, Paddy passed on a few months after the production, and few works since have so openly dealt with the condition of living with HIV. More than a decade later, Loo Zihan revisits the work, reinterpreting Paddy’s monologue and reconceptualising the … Continue reading Preview: With/Out [The Studios 2017]
Grab the opportunity to take home some art that won’t break the bank this April, as the Affordable Art Fair returns once again for its fourth edition, and marking the eight year the AAF has been around in Singapore! Being the leading showcase for affordable contemporary art, the AAF will feature both local and international galleries, all of which will be offering a diverse range of contemporary … Continue reading Preview: Affordable Art Fair – Spring Edition
Sing Jazz 2017 kicks off with a bang, with DJ acts, international jazz stars and local talent thrown into the mix. Check out the programme for the first day below: Main stage – MBS Event Plaza DJ Patrick Oliver – 430pm Locally based DJ Patrick Oliver starts off the events with an upbeat DJ setlist to get your blood pumping and excited for the rest … Continue reading Preview: Sing Jazz 2017 Day 1 (31 March)
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
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
The Finger Players opens their 2017 season with one of the biggest productions to date, held at the historic and gorgeous Victoria Theatre in an epic musical about the powerful bond between family members and filled with the nostalgia of nursery rhymes. Itsy takes place in a world of nursery rhymes gone dark where Little Miss Muffet’s Itsy Bitsy spider (the ever charming Broadway Beng Sebastian Tan) … Continue reading Preview: ITSY by The Finger Players
The Necessary Stage’s Theatre For Seniors troupe returns to the stage once again, and they’re in on TNS’ 30th Anniversary too! This March, the team will be directed by Peter Sau to restage two of Haresh Sharma’s works: Don’t Forget to Remember Me and Don’t Know, Don’t Care in this thrilling double bill. Both plays deal with families coming to terms with sudden illness that strikes … Continue reading Preview: Family Secrets by TNS’ Theatre For Seniors
The Esplanade’s 2017 Season of the Studios is titled Margins, and will feature four plays by The Necessary Stage’s Haresh Sharma, as various other artists tackle his long and illustrious history of works. Check it out this March and April, and here’s a glimpse of what’s in store: Fundamentally Happy Nelson Chia takes on this award-winning script by giving it the Nine Years Theatre treatment and … Continue reading Preview: Esplanade’s The Studios: Margins
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