Fun night out hearing new voices on the local comedy scene. If there’s something to be said about Singapore’s comedy scene, it’s that more than ever, there’s an increasing number of opportunities for newcomers to arrive on the scene and get a chance to try it out. And over at the Merry Lion Club on Circular Road, Singapore’s ‘Home of Comedy’, that opportunity is ripe, … Continue reading Laughter Is: Going Places at Merry Lion Club (Review)
Piss-perfect performance to round off Pangdemonium’s 2019 season. If Les Miserables was the musical that brought the romance to revolution, then Mark Hollmann and Greg Kotis’ Urinetown is almost certainly the one that takes the piss out of it. Wrapping up Pangdemonium’s 2019 season, Urinetown is the rare satirical musical that dares to poke fun at the musical genre and convention, yet, is in itself a more than competent production … Continue reading Review: Urinetown by Pangdemonium
LONDON – Embarking on a UK tour following its successful run in London and Basingstoke, award-winning Proteus’ adaptation of Macbeth takes Shakespeare’s macabre tragedy to the tumult of the trading room floor. Directed by Mary Swan, the artistic director, this Macbeth is a gripping corporate thriller set in London during the stock market crash of 1987. A Great Storm, a Black Monday, a market crash … Continue reading Touring the UK 2019: Proteus Theatre’s Macbeth (Preview)
30 years on from the launch of his signature album, and Dick Lee can still turn out an unforgettable concert. There’s good reason why Dick Lee is known as ‘The Mad Chinaman”, sharing that title with one of his most iconic albums, released in 1989. There’s a manic, unrestrained energy that emanates from the man in every move and every word, tempered by a timeless … Continue reading Review: Dick Lee’s The Mad Chinaman 30th Anniversary Concert
50 years on and still one of the absolute best vocal groups around. The Manhattan Transfer are undoubtedly one of America’s greatest treasures. Comprising Janis Siegel, Alan Paul and Cheryl Bentyne, along with newest member Trist Curless, the multiple Grammy Award-winning pop/jazz vocal quartet returned to the Esplanade Theatre after eight years on Tuesday, performing tracks from their latest album, along with all their greatest … Continue reading Esplanade’s Mosaic Music Series: The Manhattan Transfer (Review)
Western composition meets Eastern arrangement. Hailing all the way from Canada, the Sound of Dragon Ensemble comprises some of Vancouver’s very best musicians with a spectacular repertoire of works at their fingertips. As the opening act of Ding Yi Music Company’s 4th edition of the annual Chinese Chamber Music Festival, the ensemble was led by Taiwanese conductor Chen Chih-Sheng, and stand out from the crowd … Continue reading Review: Sound of Dragon Ensemble (Ding Yi Chinese Chamber Music Festival 2019)
Espionage and apocalyptic plots keep us constantly on our toes in this immersive experience. LONDON – If you ever fancied yourself a dashing MI6 agent, then Colab Theatre’s Spy City is the immersive theatre experience likely to let you live out those dreams. Imagining themselves as undercover agents, players spend the exhilarating Spy City chasing down and running away from enemy agents right in the heart of London as they … Continue reading In London’s (Off) West End 2019: Spy City by Colab Theatre (Review)
An investigation into the truth behind Alexander Litvinenko’s assassination as an epic vaudevillian drama. LONDON – Oftentimes, the truth is like a many-layered cake: the more you chip away at it, the more you discover. And sometimes, what you discover is a dark conspiracy far beyond anything you could ever imagine. Adapted from Luke Harding’s non-fiction book of the same name, Lucy Prebble’s A Very Expensive Poison zooms in … Continue reading In London’s (Off) West End 2019: A Very Expensive Poison at The Old Vic (Review)
LONDON – What’s a Christmas without a Christmas musical? Birmingham Repertory Theatre’s highly acclaimed Nativity! The Musical is back for a third year as it tours the UK this October to December, ready to shower all Brits with Christmas cheer, fun and joy. Every child in every school has one Christmas wish, to star in a Nativity, and at St Bernadette’s School they’ve decided to mount a musical … Continue reading Touring the UK 2019: Birmingham Repertory Theatre’s Nativity! The Musical (Preview)
LONDON – Ambassador Theatre Group Productions, Paula Wagner, Nice Productions and LPO have announced that the smash hit Pretty Woman: The Musical will preview from Valentine’s Day 2020 at the Piccadilly Theatre where it will play for a strictly limited engagement of 46 weeks. Based off 1990 smash hit film of the same name starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere, Pretty Woman: The Musical features original music and lyrics by Grammy Award winner Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance, … Continue reading In London’s West End 2020: Pretty Woman – The Musical at the Piccadilly Theatre (Preview)
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