Centre 42’s The Vault: Sau(dara) by Bhumi Collective

In 1985, Malaysian playwright Leow Puay Tin wrote the phenomenal 3 Children. Three years later, the production was jointly put to stage by Krishen Jit and Ong Keng Sen, after an earlier production at Kuala Lumpur’s Five Arts Centre, and represented one of the first major cross-Causeway productions in the English language, with a four member cast that starred Lim Kay Tong, Lok Meng Chue, … Continue reading Centre 42’s The Vault: Sau(dara) by Bhumi Collective

Museum Musings: Embodiment | Sentience at The Private Museum

In conservative Singapore, it’s next to impossible to find an exhibition dedicated almost entirely to a gallery of nudes. But perhaps that’s where The Private Museum comes into the picture, most recently daring to do the extraordinary, and providing an avenue for art on the margins to be displayed in its fully glory. Commemorating the 5th anniversary since the passing of one of Singapore’s great … Continue reading Museum Musings: Embodiment | Sentience at The Private Museum

Review: Kinky Boots presented by Base Entertainment Asia

Full of heart and high heels, Kinky Boots delivers its message of acceptance loud and proud.  It’s been a long time coming, but there’s never been a better time for multi-award winning musical Kinky Boots to have finally found its way to Singapore. With a touring cast direct from Broadway, the Harvey Fierstein/Cyndi Lauper musical is feel good entertainment at its very best, boasting infectious numbers and … Continue reading Review: Kinky Boots presented by Base Entertainment Asia

Preview: Close Company by RAW Moves

RAW Moves returns this October with yet another genre busting experimental dance performance. Collaborating with Australian, Adelaide-based artist Alison Currie, the premiere of Close Company will continue their 2018 theme of Competition, as the work examines the notion of co-dependency by dancers in and around the audience. Comprising of three parts, each act succeeds the last by being performed in increasingly smaller spaces. With the audience sharing the … Continue reading Preview: Close Company by RAW Moves

Nine Years Theatre’s Lear Is Dead 李尔亡: An Interview with Nelson Chia and Timothy Wan

There is more than a passing similarity to Shakespeare’s King Lear and a certain recently deceased leader from our very own country. Besides being former heads of a nation and possessing three children, Lear, when translated to Mandarin, also happens to begin with the Chinese character 李, or ‘Lee’. Appropriately enough then, for their very first Shakespeare adaptation, local Mandarin theatre company Nine Years Theatre … Continue reading Nine Years Theatre’s Lear Is Dead 李尔亡: An Interview with Nelson Chia and Timothy Wan

Singapore Trilogy by L’Arietta Productions: An Interview with Reuben Lai and Nora Samosir

Next week, local opera company L’arietta Productions premieres A Singapore Trilogy, a set of three chamber operas with music composed by National Arts Council Young Artist Award winner Dr. Chen Zhangyi. For the first time, all three operas will be performed together in their entirety, each celebrating our country’s most prominent obsessions – kopi, food and shopping! Bringing her wealth of knowledge to the scene is theatre veteran Nora … Continue reading Singapore Trilogy by L’Arietta Productions: An Interview with Reuben Lai and Nora Samosir

Review: Watching by Toy Factory

Apprehension towards NS hints at deeper family matters. Have you ever sat on the couch and gone on a TV marathon that lasts for so long that your vision gets blurry, your body goes limp, and it begins to become hard to tell reality from fiction? Toy Factory’s Watching covers precisely that feeling. Written and directed by Toy Factory associate artistic director Stanley Seah, Watching follows teenaged Tony … Continue reading Review: Watching by Toy Factory

SSO Marks EU-ASEAN Friendship and 100th Birthday of Goh Keng Swee

The Singapore Symphony Orchestra (SSO) will be playing music fit for kings and queens this Saturday as part of the Baroque Festival, and perhaps, there is no better opportunity than this to celebrate EU-ASEAN friendship as they collaborate with the European Union (EU) and also commemorate the 100th birthday of the SSO’s founding patron, the late and former Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore, Dr Goh Keng … Continue reading SSO Marks EU-ASEAN Friendship and 100th Birthday of Goh Keng Swee

Museum Musings: President’s Young Talents 2018 at Singapore Art Museum

The Singapore Art Museum (SAM) returns this October with the 7th edition of the President’s Young Talents 2018 exhibition. Held at SAM at 8Q from 4th October 2018 to 27th January 2019, the latest edition of the exhibition features five Singaporean contemporary artists – Yanyun Chen, Weixin Quek Chong, Debbie Ding, Hilmi Johandi and Zarina Muhammad. Inaugurated in 2001 by SAM, the President’s Young Talents … Continue reading Museum Musings: President’s Young Talents 2018 at Singapore Art Museum

Touchdown from Broadway: An Interview with the Fabulous Angels and Female Leads of Kinky Boots

For the first time ever, multi-award winning musical Kinky Boots will be staged in Singapore! Written by theatre veteran Harvey Fierstein with music by the legendary Cyndi Lauper, Kinky Boots plays at the Sands Theatre at Marina Bay Sands for just two weekends. The raucous but heartwarming musical tells the story of the fictitious Price & Son shoe factory, as newly crowned owner Charlie Price attempts to save it. Little … Continue reading Touchdown from Broadway: An Interview with the Fabulous Angels and Female Leads of Kinky Boots