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Arts, Checkpoint Theatre, musical, Review, Singapore, Theatre

★★★★★ Theatre Review: Secondary – The Musical (2026) by Checkpoint Theatre

Note: the performance reviewed featured understudies in the following major roles: Risa Ann Wong as Lilin, Nadya Zaheer as Mandy, Izzul Irfan as Omar, Fahim Murshed as Reyansh, Coco Wang as Ensemble (Discipline, Rong, Vice-Principal, Hui Ling), Nurulhuda Hassan as (Ensemble: Humour, Nadrah, Welfare, Amira, Cik Sya) weish’s Secondary: The Musical returns with a surer, more confident restaging, deepening the emotional resonance of an already … Continue reading ★★★★★ Theatre Review: Secondary – The Musical (2026) by Checkpoint Theatre

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Arts, Chinese Theatre, Nine Years Theatre, Review, Theatre, Theatre Companies

★★★★★ Theatre Review: God of Carnage 《杀戮之神》by Nine Years Theatre

Polite company quickly gives way to violent, yet cathartic truth in Nine Years Theatre’s God of Carnage. It begins, as so many civilised disasters do, with good intentions. A carefully drafted statement, coffee and cake, and adults determined to behave. In Yasmina Reza’s God of Carnage, politeness is not resolution but provocation, and in Nine Years Theatre’s staging in Mandarin, that provocation unfolds with a … Continue reading ★★★★★ Theatre Review: God of Carnage 《杀戮之神》by Nine Years Theatre

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Arts, Review, Singapore, Wild Rice, Wild Rice @ Funan

★★★★★ Theatre Review: Hotel (2025) by Wild Rice

Ten years on, Hotel remains a five-star experience, and a love letter to Singapore’s resilience and ever-changing nature, alive with endless possibility. When we first watched Hotel in 2016, Singapore, and the world, were different. It was before the global pandemic reshaped how we gathered, before Wild Rice unveiled its own theatre at Funan, and before the leadership changes that now signal a new chapter … Continue reading ★★★★★ Theatre Review: Hotel (2025) by Wild Rice

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Arts, Malay Theatre, Review, Singapore, Theatre

★★★★★ Review: Geng Rebut Cabinet (GRC) by Teater Ekamatra

Timely, charged play that skilfully skewers the pitfalls of politics, and how change is almost impossible from within. Politicians have never had it easy. On one hand, they have to ensure that they gain the adoration of the citizens such that they can secure the popular vote and remain in power. On the other hand, how much change can they actually achieve, as they compromise … Continue reading ★★★★★ Review: Geng Rebut Cabinet (GRC) by Teater Ekamatra

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