Preview: Noose & Kakis 2… My PSLE Is Better Than Yours

After a successful transfer to the stage in 2016, Channel 5’s hit news spoof television programme returns with more madcap sketches and sidesplitting jokes, as the crazy crew of Noose reporters and their stand-up comedian friends tackle the bastion of Singapore’s meritocratic society – education! . Starring the now familiar faces of Chua En Lai, Alaric Tay, Suhaimi Yusof and Kayly Loh as their various uproariously hilarious news anchors, … Continue reading Preview: Noose & Kakis 2… My PSLE Is Better Than Yours

Review: Sister Act presented by BASE Entertainment Asia

Glory to the risen…queen? Sister Act finally comes to our shores at Mastercard Theatres! Inspired by the 1992 movie of the same name starring Whoopi Goldberg, this international production boasts a production team that’s worked on Broadway/West End versions of the musical, and a stellar cast as well! Set in 1978, outspoken lounge singer Deloris Van Cartier (Dene Hill) witnesses a murder by soon to be … Continue reading Review: Sister Act presented by BASE Entertainment Asia

Review: Salome by The National Theatre

Salomé. A nameless dancer, wife to Herod the Great, shunned as a symbol of female seduction, and defamed in literature as a vengeful harpy directly responsible for the death of John the Baptist. Director Yaël Farber seeks to reclaim the myth and rid it of misogyny in this new production of the classic myth. This new play reframes Salomé as a victim of patriarchal persecution … Continue reading Review: Salome by The National Theatre

Review: Love Pings by I AM

I AM tackles the frenzied, anonymous modern love of Internet dating. Hong Kong, 2017. Much like every other metropolitan city out there, the yuppie citizens spend their days in offices and spend their nights at hip bars and nice restaurants. And like every young, ambitious person, one eventually stops to think: is there more to this life? Meet Jane (Heather Cooper), a typical office drone … Continue reading Review: Love Pings by I AM

Preview: Sister Act Press Call!

You gotta have faith, but you’re also gonna have fun at BASE Entertainment’s Sister Act. In lieu of the upcoming production of hit musical Sister Act at Mastercard Theatres, we went down to get a preview of what we had in store for us! Adapted from the hit 90s film of the same name starring Whoopi Goldberg, Sister Act is a madcap comedy adventure following the exploits of … Continue reading Preview: Sister Act Press Call!

Review: Old Joe’s Fish and Chill by be•wilder

be•wilder weren’t kidding when they said their company was all about international cultures and a myriad of backgrounds – their debut show Old Joe’s Fish and Chill features a multiracial cast with a multilingual script and characters with serious history. Set in a dystopian future where immigration has become heavily monitored and countries have been renamed to sound oddly similar to London postcodes, the titular Old Joe’s … Continue reading Review: Old Joe’s Fish and Chill by be•wilder

Review: The Buried Moon at the Rose Playhouse

Laura Turner’s The Buried Moon re-imagines The Tempest‘s Miranda and Caliban as two wayward British teenagers growing up in the Lincolnshire fens in the 2010s. Taking close inspiration from Shakespeare’s text, it’s a setting that works surprisingly well. Framing Miranda and Caliban’s history as a fundamentally tragic one and shedding light on what it potentially might have been, The Buried Moon manages to simultaneously demonize and sympathize with Caliban, while … Continue reading Review: The Buried Moon at the Rose Playhouse

Preview: TANGO by Pangdemonium!

For the first time since their inception, Pangdemonium! will be presenting an original play – TANGO by acclaimed local playwright Joel Tan! Receiving its world premiere in May, TANGO was inspired by true events from the blog “4 Relative Strangers” by James Williams, the pseudonym for the real Koh-Waites who outraged a Chinese restaurant in Singapore who couldn’t accept their presence as the adopted parents of two sons. … Continue reading Preview: TANGO by Pangdemonium!

Preview: Love Pings by I AM

Created by American performance artist and director Kate March, I AM is a passionate, all female creative collective based in Hong Kong that’ve won critical acclaim for their immersive and interactive theatre experiences, combining fashion, dance, live art and music that appeals to the modern, metropolitan theatre goer with their boundless imagination. In Love Pings, the ladies of I AM narrate the story of Hong Kong’s … Continue reading Preview: Love Pings by I AM

Preview: Old Joe’s Fish and Chill by be•wilder

New theatre company be•wilder consists of international artists and graduates of RADA’s MA theatre programme, and are proud to present their debut production inspired by Brexit and the refugee crisis: Old Joe’s Fish ‘n’ Chill.  Set in a once glorious, all-inclusive club famous for its fish and chips, Old Joe’s has since been hit by a terrorist attack, left for dead. Yet it remains the only … Continue reading Preview: Old Joe’s Fish and Chill by be•wilder