Back at the tail end of 2017, we watched Patch and Punnet’s debut production 2042, which included a play titled A Mother’s Love by Dwayne Ng, and starring Ng and Alia Alkaff. Now, Dwayne is back with a brand new play, once again dealing with the topic of motherhood as Single Mothers premiere at The Arts House this December. Directed by Isaiah Christopher Lee, Single Mothers will once again star … Continue reading Preview: Single Mothers by Dwayne Ng
★★☆☆☆ (Performance attended 5/12/19) New theatre collective shows potential, but lacks clear direction in this original triptych wandering and wondering about the nature of modern love. It’s never too late in the year to make a debut, and for The Assembly Point, December is as good a time as any to make their start on the local theatre scene, with their brand new, original work Affections. … Continue reading Review: Affections by The Assembly Point
Melbourne-based Malaysian-Australian musician and producer Yeo drops his awaited R&B-infused pop album Recovery Channel, taking his unique genre-bending sound and wry lyricism to a more personal space. Recovery Channel is a musical recollection of Yeo’s experience as a person of colour struggling to find confidence, a place to belong, and proof of his own humanity. The album explores themes of love, conflict and the rarity of hope. … Continue reading Music Is: Yeo Releases Debut Album ‘Recovery Channel’
There are far too many options to celebrate the end of the decade, but one that stands out has to be a celebration at Mount Faber, 100m above sea level! On 31st December 2019, the One Faber Group will be featuring exclusive one-night only New Year’s Eve (NYE) celebration menus across three venues – Arbora, Dusk Restaurant & Bar and Cable Car Sky Dining. All … Continue reading Food For Thought: Feast & Fireworks On The Hilltop at Faber Peak
The AirAsia Group and Universal Music Group (UMG) announced the launch of RedRecords, an innovative new label partnership focused on signing, developing and breaking new Asian artists and elevating ‘A-pop’ globally to new audiences throughout the region and around the world. The two companies announced the ground-breaking partnership at a press conference, held in Kuala Lumpur today. RedRecords will focus on discovering and developing talent … Continue reading Music Is: AirAsia Group and Universal Music Group Launch RedRecords
★★★☆☆ (Performance attended 4/12/19) A collection of choreographies wrestling with our complex relationship with our bodies and the societal expectations lumped upon them. No matter how unattainable perfection is, it’s curious how much we beat ourselves up for not achieving it. This is a phenomena that applies especially so to the concept of the physical body, the most immediate visual representation of us, bearing the … Continue reading Review: Puffing Bodies by Maya Dance Theatre and IPTanz
KUALA LUMPUR – ILHAM Gallery and Singapore Art Museum (SAM) present ILHAM x SAM Project: The Body Politic and the Body from 8th December 2019 to 12th April 2020 at ILHAM Gallery in Kuala Lumpur. The first collaboration between ILHAM Gallery and SAM, it explores the many facets of contemporary art and its genealogies in Malaysia. The Body Politic and the Body is conceived as a … Continue reading Arts in Malaysia 2019/20: ILHAM Gallery and Singapore Art Museum Present The Body Politic and The Body (Preview)
Yung Raja is, in a word, young. But in spite of his youth, the local rapper and occasional actor has already been making waves over the last two years as a mainstay across both local and regional festivals, breaking through as one of the hottest up-and-coming artistes, and as his Spotify profile reads, “hip hop’s next avant-garde bilingual artiste”, thanks to his unique compositions that … Continue reading Music Is: An Interview with Local Rapper Yung Raja
Come its 43rd year in 2020, the Singapore International Festival of Arts (SIFA) returns with a slew of new works from both local and international artists in the month of May. The festival has released the first wave of tickets for five productions that will be making their debut next year, with local theatre companies Nine Years Theatre, The Finger Players and The Necessary Stage, … Continue reading Singapore International Festival of Arts 2020 Releases First Wave of Tickets, Confirms Local Commissions and Crystal Pite’s Revisor
★★★★☆ (Performance attended 29/11/19) Pan-tastic end to W!ld Rice’s 2019 season reminding audiences of the magic of childhood and belief. The wonderful thing about W!ld Rice’s pantomimes is that while very much focused on creating a year-end show that children can enjoy, these same shows are also very much family affairs, allowing even the adult audiences to slip into the same mindset and simple joy … Continue reading Review: Peter Pan In Serangoon Gardens by W!ld Rice
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