T:>Works and National Gallery Singapore co-produce 24‑Hour Playwriting Competition 2025 to celebrate milestone anniversaries

At the intersection of two milestone anniversaries, T:>Works celebrates 40 years and National Gallery Singapore marks its 10th with a co-production of the 24-Hour Playwriting Competition 2025 and post-competition Dramatised Reading in 2026. The Competition will happen from 15 November 2025, 11am to 16 November 2025, 11am at National Gallery Singapore, joining T:>Works as the programme’s Venue and Programme Partner. A T:>Works legacy programme since … Continue reading T:>Works and National Gallery Singapore co-produce 24‑Hour Playwriting Competition 2025 to celebrate milestone anniversaries

★★★★☆ Review: DnA Fest – ‘The House of Janus’ and ‘Dido & The Belindas’ by T:>Works

Meditations on grief and love in these contemporary reimaginings and interpretations of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. An anniversary is often a cause for raucous celebration, to mark another year well-lived and full of success. But for T:>Works, their 40th anniversary is instead being commemorated by sombre reflection, with the first edition of DnA Fest. Conceived and directed by T:>Works Artistic Director Ong Keng Sen, DnA … Continue reading ★★★★☆ Review: DnA Fest – ‘The House of Janus’ and ‘Dido & The Belindas’ by T:>Works

T:>Works launches new DnA Fest to celebrate 40th anniversary

Marking its 40th anniversary, Singapore’s independent international arts company T:>Works, presents DnA Fest. Conceived and directed by T:>Works Artistic Director Ong Keng Sen, DnA Fest cracks open Henry Purcell’s 1688 Dido and Aeneas, reinterpreting the baroque opera through a dialogue between opera, nightlife, cabaret, documentary film, and a live DJ score. Unfolding across two weekends, 16-19 and 23-26 July, DnA Fest is a thrilling triptych … Continue reading T:>Works launches new DnA Fest to celebrate 40th anniversary

Bakchormeeboy Awards 2024: Revivals, restagings and hope for the future

There are a few things that make good theatre and live performance so uniquely powerful, but perhaps the greatest factor that leads to us appreciating it that much more lies in how it is quite simply, temporal. No two nights are the same, whether it is due to a difference in the audience members present, a change in actors’ delivery, or even something that seems … Continue reading Bakchormeeboy Awards 2024: Revivals, restagings and hope for the future

An Interview with T:>Works Artistic Director Ong Keng Sen on second edition of Per°Form Open Academy of Arts and Activations (POA)

Last Wednesday, the second edition of T:>Works’ Per°Form Open Academy of Arts and Activations (POA) welcomed artist Hira Nabi to deliver an opening keynote, where the filmmaker presented a lecture performance at 72-13. Titled How to Love A Tree, the presentation showcased footage of green landscapes and misty mountains, while Hira spoke of forest time and the spectre of colonialism, drawing us into a dreamscape … Continue reading An Interview with T:>Works Artistic Director Ong Keng Sen on second edition of Per°Form Open Academy of Arts and Activations (POA)

T:>Works presents second edition of Per°Form Open Academy of Arts and Activations (POA) this April

Returning for its second edition, T:Works once again hosts Per°Form Open Academy of Arts and Activations (POA) this April, and features the live gathering of 15 Per°Form Fellows from the Global South—Africa, Arab world, Asia, and South America. These fellows, intersectional practitioners across diverse disciplines of activism, film, fashion, design, curation, research, education, visual culture, spoken word, performance, will present their strategies for activating contexts … Continue reading T:>Works presents second edition of Per°Form Open Academy of Arts and Activations (POA) this April

Bakchormeeboy Awards 2023: The Year That Returned To Normalcy, A Time For Reflection

In 2023, Singapore’s theatre scene felt fully ready to take risks and pull out all the stops for the first true season following the pandemic years. We saw the return of blockbuster musical and stage productions, and plenty of new, experimental works filling in the spaces in between, be it through long-awaited collaborations or younger companies having their work see the light of day, or … Continue reading Bakchormeeboy Awards 2023: The Year That Returned To Normalcy, A Time For Reflection

T:>Works Unveils Winning Scripts of the 24-Hour Playwriting Competition 2023

Following the 2023 edition of the 24- Hour Playwriting Competition held at the Figment Club House in July, T:>Works is delighted to announce the winners from the Open and Youth categories. In celebration of these playwrights’ accomplishments, T:>Works will also present an afternoon of dramatised readings of select winning scripts on 3rd February 2024 at 72-13. This year’s judges – Aidli Mosbit, Chong Tze Chien … Continue reading T:>Works Unveils Winning Scripts of the 24-Hour Playwriting Competition 2023

★★★★★ Review: King by T:>Works

Modern take on Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde problematises society’s obsession with gender and performativity. In the novel Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, author Robert Louis Stevenson uses the core narrative of a kind man hiding a sinister alter ego to pass commentary on the stress of conforming to strict moral codes and social norms in Victorian-era London. In suppressing our true … Continue reading ★★★★★ Review: King by T:>Works

T:>Works’ King: An Interview with writer/performer Jo Tan and director Irfan Kasban

Back in 2020, at the height of COVID-19, theatremaker Jo Tan was invited by T:>Works to present a little one-woman show called King, as part of their annual N.O.W. Festival of Women. With pandemic restrictions in place, King, however, was relegated to becoming a live film, streamed online. Now, with the world open again, Jo is taking another stab at the play again, bringing it … Continue reading T:>Works’ King: An Interview with writer/performer Jo Tan and director Irfan Kasban