Tag: Review

Arts, Film, Review, Singapore

★★★★★ Film Review: Amoeba dir. Tan Siyou

Girls just wanna have fun in this sincere, all-too-relatable portrait of confusing, rebellious teenage girlhood in restrictive Singapore. After its sold-out Singapore premiere at the 2026 Singapore International Film Festival, Tan Siyou’s debut feature Amoeba has continued to make the rounds across festivals, and now returns home for a series of screenings at indie cinema Filmhouse. The response has been more than warm, to say … Continue reading ★★★★★ Film Review: Amoeba dir. Tan Siyou

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Arts, Concert, musical, Review, Sands Theatre, Theatre

★★★★★ Theatre Review: Les Misérables The Arena Spectacular by Base Entertainment Asia

Spectacle meets soul in epic, transcendent reimagining of the musical theatre classic. Few musicals possess the cultural and emotional magnitude of Les Misérables. From its origins on the West End and Broadway to its global tours and cinematic adaptation, the work of Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, drawn from Victor Hugo’s monumental novel, has endured as a defining pillar of musical theatre. In its 40th … Continue reading ★★★★★ Theatre Review: Les Misérables The Arena Spectacular by Base Entertainment Asia

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Singapore, Arts, Theatre, Review, KC Arts Centre

★★★★☆ Theatre Review: Lord of the Flies by Sight Lines Entertainment

Metatheatrical interpretation of Golding’s classic is ambitiously and visually arresting, if occasionally more evocative than incisive. By now, Sight Lines Entertainment has carved out a distinct niche with its pragmatic approach to theatre, balancing original work with canny programming aimed at student audiences, a strategy that ensures both relevance and sustainability in a competitive arts landscape. Their latest offering, a new staging of Lord of … Continue reading ★★★★☆ Theatre Review: Lord of the Flies by Sight Lines Entertainment

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Arts, festival, Review, Theatre, Theatres

★★★★☆ Theatre Review: Tall Tales – Bananas and Ang Ku Kueh 谈谈: 香蕉与红龟粿 by The Finger Players X Shakespeare’s Wild Sisters Group

A multiplicity of riotous stories exuberantly told, even if they don’t quite add up. Tall Tales: Bananas & Ang Ku Kuehs holds a delectable premise: a Singapore–Taiwan puppet theatre collaboration drawing on the storytelling spirit of The Decameron, where tales of love, jealousy, greed and mischief multiply across cultures and generations. Directed by Oliver Chong of The Finger Players and Wang Chia-Ming of Shakespeare’s Wild … Continue reading ★★★★☆ Theatre Review: Tall Tales – Bananas and Ang Ku Kueh 谈谈: 香蕉与红龟粿 by The Finger Players X Shakespeare’s Wild Sisters Group

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Arts, musical, Review, Singapore, Theatre

★★★★★ Concert Review: Lea Salonga – Stage, Screen, and Everything in Between at the Esplanade Theatre

A masterclass in grace and storytelling—Lea Salonga returns to Singapore and reminds us exactly why she remains musical theatre royalty. After more than a decade away from the Esplanade Theatre stage, Lea Salonga’s return to Singapore feels nothing short of momentous. Bringing her Stage, Screen & Everything In Between concert to our shores, Salonga presents a sweeping, deeply personal retrospective of a career that has … Continue reading ★★★★★ Concert Review: Lea Salonga – Stage, Screen, and Everything in Between at the Esplanade 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, Music, Review, Singapore

Concert Review: Go Local! Happy Chinese New Year Concert by Ding Yi Music Company

The Lunar New Year is a time of reunion, celebration, and hopeful beginnings. At the Go Local! Happy Chinese New Year Concert, Ding Yi Music Company ushered in the festive season with warmth, vitality, and musical flair. Presented in collaboration with the China Cultural Centre in Singapore, the evening brought together Ding Yi’s musicians alongside guest artists from Hong Kong’s Windpipe Chinese Music Ensemble and … Continue reading Concert Review: Go Local! Happy Chinese New Year Concert by Ding Yi Music Company

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Arts, festival, Review, Theatre, Theatres

★★★★★ Theatre Review: Le Père (The Father) 父亲 by Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre

by D.Y. Mandarin adaptation of acclaimed Florian Zeller play finds heartbreaking new resonance; spotlighting the Asian sensibilities of a family at war with Alzheimer’s disease.  In theatre, there are few plays that break the trust between audience and performer in its storytelling; And with an unassuming title such as ‘The Father’, the audience is lured into a false sense of familiarity. But, when the naturalistic, … Continue reading ★★★★★ Theatre Review: Le Père (The Father) 父亲 by Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre

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Arts, Pangdemonium, Review, Singapore, Victoria Theatre

★★★★★ Theatre Review: Force Majeure by Pangdemonium

A storm of memory, art and family marks the beginning of Pangdemonium’s final season. Pangdemonium opens its 2026 season with Force Majeure, a quietly devastating meditation on art, family and the fragile structures that hold both together. Written by Stephanie Street and directed by Tracie Pang, the play reimagines Chekhov’s Three Sisters within a contemporary Southeast Asian context, where artists find themselves negotiating not just … Continue reading ★★★★★ Theatre Review: Force Majeure by Pangdemonium

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Arts, festival, Interview, Preview, Theatre, Theatres

★★★★☆ Dance Review: Diary VII ・ The Story Of…… by Mui Cheuk-yin

Mui Cheuk-yin transforms a chance encounter with a stray cat into a profound reflection on migration, memory and the circular nature of time. Diary entries often feel like streams of consciousness, a flow of thought. So for a dance piece to take inspiration from one, that results in a performance where there is no dramatic overture, no attempt to overwhelm. Instead, the theatre fills with … Continue reading ★★★★☆ Dance Review: Diary VII ・ The Story Of…… by Mui Cheuk-yin

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