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 […]
Art What!: If Walls Could Speak: – An Exhibition of 30 Award Winning Artists From Asia at the Ion Art Gallery (Preview)
This February, MAYINART presents If Walls Could Speak, an exhibition showcasing works of South East Asian artists. The exhibition focuses predominantly on the work of Indonesian artists from Java island, […]
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 […]
Music Is: SSO Babies’ Proms by the Singapore Symphony Orchestra (Preview)
Join presenter William Ledbetter and conductor Tianyi Lu for the annual SSO Babies’ Proms. Over four performances on Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th May (2pm & 4pm), William, Tianyi and […]
Preview: Fika & Fishy by Patch and Punnet
Local theatre company Patch and Punnet rings in 2020 with a brand new show, following their two productions of their original work The Adventures of Abhijeet in 2019. Now under W!ld […]
Music Is: VCHpresents Baroque Festival – Orpheus of Rome by the Singapore Symphony Orchestra (Preview)
This April, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra celebrates a golden age of music: the Baroque era. Leader of the famous Academy of Ancient Music, Bojan Cicic, directs this year’s Baroque Festival, […]
Music Is: Another Journey Begins! – Debut Concert of the Concordia Quartet (Preview)
Resound Collective, Singapore’s first professional chamber ensemble, has announced the launch of a new string quartet – the Concordia Quartet. Comprising four prize-winning musicians – Edward Tan, Kim Kyu Ri, […]
Preview: The Son by Pangdemonium!
Ass-kicking theatre company Pangdemonium! is back this February to start their 10th anniversary on the scene with Florian Zeller’s The Son (translated by Christopher Hampton). Following on from their sold-out production […]
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 […]
Music Is: The Genteel Horn of Mr Han by the Singapore Symphony Orchestra (Preview)
On Friday 13th March, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra celebrates its Principal Horn, Han Chang Chou, who is retiring from the orchestra this season. And to mark the occasion, they’ll be […]
Music Is: Concerts For Children – Journey Around The World by the Singapore Symphony Orchestra (Preview)
Join conductor and host Jessica Gethin on a Journey Around the World in the next edition of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra’s (SSO) Concerts for Children series. Over four performances on […]
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 […]
Huayi 2020: An Interview with Star Pianist Tony Yike Yang
At the tender age of 16, Chinese-Canadian pianist Tony Yike Yang took the music world by storm when he became the youngest-ever laureate at the prestigious 2015 Chopin International Piano […]
Music Is: Ding Yi Music Company’s Happy Chinese New Year Concert 2020 feat. Nathan Hartono (Preview)
As Singapore’s most acclaimed Chinese chamber music ensemble, Ding Yi starts off 2020 on an auspicious note with a new edition of their annual Happy Chinese New Year Concert. Playing […]
Review: Three Courses @ MeatSmith Little India (ARTWALK Little India 2020)
★★★☆☆ (Performance attended 18/1/20) Eavesdropping on millennial conversations while enjoying a good meal. ARTWALK Little India has never shied away from programming at least one interdisciplinary performance into its diverse […]
