[Review] Huayi Festival 2017: Actor, Forty by The Necessary Stage

Actor, Forty is a meeting of strengths for award-winning actress Yeo Yann Yann and The Necessary Stage team. Having worked together many times in the past, Yeo reunites with TNS for a unique collaboration, returning to her lesser known roots as a thespian. Taking Yeo’s life and career as a starting point, resident playwright Haresh Sharma has crafted a monologue that sparkles with its linguistic diversity and … Continue reading [Review] Huayi Festival 2017: Actor, Forty by The Necessary Stage

Preview: Detention Katong by Dream Academy

Dream Academy presents an all new original musical comedy written and directed by Selena Tan! Set in the fictitious Geylang Girls Secondary School, this new musical is all about those angsty, difficult teenage years. From pimples to ponytails, boys to breaking the rules, this is one story that’ll appeal to both the young and young at heart. Detention Katong stars theatre stalwarts Suhaimi Yusoff, Neo … Continue reading Preview: Detention Katong by Dream Academy

Preview: Crossings by young & w!ld

Over the last eighteen months, eight young theatre makers trained under the directorship of Rodney Oliveiro and Serena Ho, cumulating in an all new batch of young & w!ld graduates. Now, they’re about to release their first public performance to showcase what they’re made of. Crossings is a fully devised double bill, consisting stories, characters and themes created by the young & w!ld batch via improv … Continue reading Preview: Crossings by young & w!ld

Preview: W!ld Rice’s 2017 Season

2016 has been an incredible year for W!ld Rice, bringing back some of their most critically acclaimed hits such as Hotel and Monkey Goes West, along with introducing brand new, quality theatre during the Singapore Theatre Festival. 2017 looks set to be just as exciting, if not more so. Check out next year’s highlights below: Crossings by young & w!ld (15-19 February) W!ld Rice’s newest batch of young & … Continue reading Preview: W!ld Rice’s 2017 Season

Preview: BASE Entertainment 2017 Season

Marina Bay Sands has played host to some of the most exciting international acts since its inception. For 2017, the trend continues, and this is their exciting lineup in the months to come! Chicago (8-19 February) Chicago is one of the sexiest, most exciting musicals to come off Broadway. Involving nightclub singers, smooth-talking lawyers and a double-murderess, this production certainly won’t bet your usual cheery … Continue reading Preview: BASE Entertainment 2017 Season

Preview: SRT’s 2017 Season

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

Preview: Pangdemonium 2017 Season

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

Review: Projek Suitcase: Metamorphosis (Part 2) by Teater Ekamatra

This is Part 2 of our review of Teater Ekamatra’s Projek Suitcase 2016, following our review of half the plays. For the next four monologues, we started off with E Lee Loong and Rizman Putra’s By The Book. A political piece featuring Rizman Putra as an overbearing actor attempting to wrest control from his director during a rehearsal, vouching that they should go with his … Continue reading Review: Projek Suitcase: Metamorphosis (Part 2) by Teater Ekamatra

Review: Projek Suitcase by Teater Ekamatra

Teater Ekamatra’s annual monologue festival is back! Projek Suitcase isn’t just people standing around delivering lines though; it’s uniting artists from all kinds of disciplines, from sound designers to film makers, from actors to bharathanatyam dancers. This year, they’ve departed from simply uniting Malay artists to becoming all-inclusive and multi-disciplinary, regardless of race, language or religion. There were also some very familiar faces involved, from musician Bani … Continue reading Review: Projek Suitcase by Teater Ekamatra

Review: Monkey Goes West by W!ld Rice

If you’re a person of Chinese origin, chances are you grew up having watched at least one version of Journey To The West on television. Now, W!ld Rice is here to break those language barriers with its annual Christmas pantomime, and they’ve brought back the sellout Monkey Goes West for the second year in a row, and the bold move certainly paid off. Alfian Sa’at takes the classic Chinese … Continue reading Review: Monkey Goes West by W!ld Rice