The Esplanade’s Pesta Raya Goes Online
Much like the recently concluded The Studios Online season, with the restrictions placed on live performances, Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay has made the move to shift their […]
The Studios 2020: An Interview with Playwright Lucas Ho (The Heart Comes To Mind)
Originally meant to have rounded off this year’s edition of Esplanade’s The Studios 2020, Checkpoint Theatre has faced multiple issues with staging and even recording Lucas Ho’s new play due […]
The Esplanade Takes The Studios Online and More With Lineup of Digital Content
Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay continues to roll out more online content to keep audiences engaged with the arts, even when stuck at home. Beyond archival content, this year’s […]
The Studios 2020: An Interview with Toy Pianist Margaret Leng Tan (Dragon Ladies Don’t Weep) [CANCELLED]
Playing a toy piano could easily come off as a gimmick, but for Margaret Leng Tan, the experimental artist has somehow managed to carve it into an entire career. Now, […]
Preview: The Esplanade presents The Studios 2020 – Lost & Found
Life is a lost & found box. At least, that’s how the Esplanade sees it come 2020, with their latest season of The Studios come March and April. Dealing with […]
Esplanade’s Mosaic Music Series 2020: Six Acts To Look Out For From Now to March (Preview)
Since first started in October 2004, the Esplanade’s Mosaic Music series have brought in some of the best music from the most creative artists from all over the world. While […]
Review: The Long Goodbye 小儿子 by Story Works X Dreamland (Huayi 2020)
★★★★☆ (Performance attended 7/2/20) Tackling dementia with both humour and heart. One of the most terrifying things about dementia itself, besides its effects, is the sheer length of time it […]
Review: Almost 55 乔杨 by City Contemporary Dance Company (Huayi 2020)
★★★★☆ (Performance attended 9/2/20) Age is no barrier to Qiao Yang in this dance-biopic of her life. While most of the narrative heavy-lifting in biopics is often done via text, […]
Huayi 2020: An Interview with Veteran Dancer Qiao Yang, Star of City Contemporary Dance Company’s Almost 55
The dance world has never been kind towards ageing dancers, with most performance careers ending in their 30s. But for 50-something year old dancer Qiao Yang, her age becomes a […]
Huayi 2020: An Interview with Huang Chih Kai, Director of Story Works X Dreamland’s The Long Goodbye
Dementia is one of the most terrifying conditions to possibly strike a human being. At the heart of Story Works X Dreamland’s The Long Goodbye is an accomplished author who has been […]
Review: Principle 原则 by Hong Kong Repertory Theatre (Huayi 2020)
★★★★☆ (Performance attended 1/2/20) Education is politics as two opposing ideologies go head to head in a school setting. Does school prepare students for the real world? While the academic […]
Review: Firebird – Piano Sensation Tony Yike Yang Solo Recital (Huayi 2020)
★★★★☆ (Performance attended 2/2/20) Piano prodigy’s plays like a majestic phoenix rising from the flames. Playing as part of the Esplanade’s 2020 Huayi – Chinese Festival of the Arts, award-winning […]
Review: 7 Sages of the Bamboo Grove 竹林七贤 by Toy Factory (Huayi 2020)
★★★☆☆ (Performance attended 31/1/20) Allegorical tale of a dystopian surveillance state preaches the value of the arts, but loses itself in a myriad of subplots along the way. During the rule […]
Review: Prism of Truth 眾相 by Ground Z-0 (Huayi 2020)
★★★☆☆ (Performance attended 31/1/20) Modern rework of Rashomon allows audience to play jury in a multimedia social experiment. In the field of conspiracy theory, so long as a claim cannot be […]
Huayi 2020: An Interview with Kwok Wing Hong, Playwright of HKRep’s Principle, and Anthony Chan, Artistic Director of HKRep
When a new principal joins a school, she establishes her power with a host of new rules and an authoritarian leadership, forcing everyone to go strictly by the book. In […]
Huayi 2020: An Interview with Goh Boon Teck, Director and Playwright of Toy Factory’s 7 Sages of the Bamboo Grove
In Chinese history, there existed a group of seven Chinese scholars, writers, and musicians of the third century CE. As the Jin dynasty came into being, the ‘Sages’ found their […]
