Category: Review

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★★★★★ Theatre Review: Charged (2026) by Teater Ekamatra

Haunting revival interrogates the fragile foundations of Singapore’s racial harmony with unsettling force. Duration: 105min Singapore likes to tell itself a comforting story: that we are a multiracial nation where harmony is one of our greatest achievements. And while that may be true to a large extent, beneath the familiar choreography of Racial Harmony Day celebrations, bilingual policies and shared national rituals lies the assumption … Continue reading ★★★★★ Theatre Review: Charged (2026) by Teater Ekamatra

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Theatre Review: Just Maybe by Orangedot Productions

A production that seeks to challenge our assumptions about privilege, fairness and access to justice, with too many unresolved storylines. What does justice look like when life is not lived in black and white? Just Maybe follows Kayleigh, an ambitious law student who believes she has earned everything through hard work. When she is required to complete 20 hours at Pro Bono SG before graduating, … Continue reading Theatre Review: Just Maybe by Orangedot Productions

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art, Arts, Checkpoint Theatre, Drama Centre Black Box, Review, Singapore, Theatre

★★★☆☆ Theatre Review: Common Room by Checkpoint Theatre

Checkpoint Theatre tackles queer themes by presenting an honest depiction of queer co-living that succeeds more as an act of representation than a piece of theatre. Duration: 90min Although Singapore has made significant strides towards LGBTQ+ acceptance, many queer Singaporeans continue to negotiate conservative workplaces, families and social expectations. For those unable to live fully out in public, chosen family and queer kinship become not … Continue reading ★★★☆☆ Theatre Review: Common Room by Checkpoint Theatre

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Arts, musical, Review, SOTA Drama Theatre

★★★☆☆ Theatre Review: Be A Star – A Musical Fable by Musical Theatre Limited

A nostalgic musical throwback to a simpler time, when dreams were big and morality came a little too neatly packaged with a happy ending. Duration: 135min (including a 15min intermission) There is an admirable sincerity running through Musical Theatre Limited’s Be A Star, one that feels increasingly uncommon in contemporary musical theatre. Originally conceived as Lost in Transit in 2005 by lyricist Stella Kon and … Continue reading ★★★☆☆ Theatre Review: Be A Star – A Musical Fable by Musical Theatre Limited

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Arts, Comedy, Review, Sands Theatre, Theatres

★★★★☆ Theatre Review: Slava’s Snowshow (2026) by Base Entertainment Asia

The modern classic of clown theatre returns to give Singapore a taste of Russian winter once more, exploring solitude, despair and hope in a singular, brilliant snowstorm of an experience. Clowns are often mistaken for entertainers when, in truth, they are philosophers. Their language simply happens to be slapstick. That perhaps explains why Slava’s Snowshow has endured for over thirty years. Returning once again to … Continue reading ★★★★☆ Theatre Review: Slava’s Snowshow (2026) by Base Entertainment Asia

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★★★★★ Dance Review: Dracula – Ballet at its Darkest by BIG Live

Bram Stoker gave us Dracula. Joel Burke made him ballet. Somehow, it feels like one of the most natural reinventions of the world’s most famous vampire yet. “Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make.” Bram Stoker’s most famous line has echoed through popular culture for well over a century. Since Dracula was published in 1897, the Count has lived countless … Continue reading ★★★★★ Dance Review: Dracula – Ballet at its Darkest by BIG Live

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★★★★☆ Theatre Review: The Nether by HuM Theatre

Blurring the lines of reality, morality, and the limits of humane pleasure. Over the years, the internet has evolved into a sprawling virtual world of limitless possibility, offering both unprecedented connection and discovery alongside a seedy underbelly capable of accommodating humanity’s darkest impulses. Jennifer Haley’s The Nether imagines the natural endpoint of that evolution, asking what happens when virtual reality becomes so sophisticated that it … Continue reading ★★★★☆ Theatre Review: The Nether by HuM Theatre

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Arts, Pangdemonium, Review, Singapore

★★★★★ Theatre Review: A Mirror by Pangdemonium

Tracie Pang deftly handles Sam Holcroft’s puzzle box of a play-within-a-play with confidence and a stellar team to produce the theatrical event of the year. There are theatre productions you admire and those you enjoy. And then there are productions that leave you walking out of the theatre almost hesitating to speak, not because you have nothing to say, but because you are still trying … Continue reading ★★★★★ Theatre Review: A Mirror by Pangdemonium

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★★★☆☆ Theatre Review: And Then There Were None by The Winter Players

The Winter Players’ ambitious staging of And Then There Were None is a flawed but encouraging step forward for the young company. There is no questioning the ambition behind The Winter Players’ latest production of And Then There Were None. Agatha Christie’s celebrated murder mystery is one of the most demanding works to stage, requiring a large ensemble, meticulous technical precision and sustained suspense over … Continue reading ★★★☆☆ Theatre Review: And Then There Were None by The Winter Players

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Arts, Film, Review, Singapore

★★★★☆ Film Review: Sheep in the Box 箱の中の羊 dir. Hirokazu Koreeda

Koreeda’s retreads familiar ground with themes of found family and the process of grief in this futuristic fairy tale with mixed results. Sheep in the Box sees award-winning filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda return to his specialty of family, grief, and the fragile systems we build to survive both, but refracts them through a near-future setting that is conceptually rich, emotionally uneven, and structurally overextended. It is … Continue reading ★★★★☆ Film Review: Sheep in the Box 箱の中の羊 dir. Hirokazu Koreeda

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