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Art What!, Arts, Preview, Visual Art

Art What!: Creative Intersections – SNAKES and LADDERS slithers its way into Funan

Funan ushers the new year with its signature public art initiative, “Creative Intersections,” themed “Snakes and Ladders.” The creative direction is to manifest the attributes of the Snake zodiac sign—creativity, insightfulness, and transformation—into diverse forms of art, workshops, and merchandise. Back for its fifth iteration till 16th Feb 2025, feast your eyes with no less than 23 exhibits-representing the efforts of 15 local artists and … Continue reading Art What!: Creative Intersections – SNAKES and LADDERS slithers its way into Funan

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Arts, Preview, Singapore

Preview: NUS Arts Festival 2025 – Crossroads

After a year-long hiatus, NUS Arts Festival returns with renewed vigour and purpose, this time themed around Crossroads. Inspired by how the arts acts as a space for the intersection of identities, perspectives, and forms in challenging, inventive new ways, the student-driven festival also celebrates both the university’s diverse student arts groups and seasoned practitioners. With Crossroads, the festival aims to present a journey into … Continue reading Preview: NUS Arts Festival 2025 – Crossroads

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Arts, Dance with Me, Review, Singapore

★★★☆☆ Review: Dance with Me by Frontier Danceland

Friendship secured by dancing through life, regardless of age. There’s never an age limit to dance, but certainly, what one can do with one body changes immensely as one ages. But as Frontier Danceland founder Low Mei Yoke and her friends prove, all it takes is a little compromise and continued effort to keep dancing, and through that process, hold on to steadfast friendships, in … Continue reading ★★★☆☆ Review: Dance with Me by Frontier Danceland

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Arts, Interview, musical, Preview, Singapore, SRT

SRT’s The Last Five Years: An Interview with stars Inch Chua and Nathan Hartono on their offstage friendship, and relationship advice for all

Considering how the pandemic took place in 2020, it’s wild to think how so much can change in just five years. What more the state of a relationship, one that is explored in Jason Robert Brown’s acclaimed musical The Last Five Years. Coming to the KC Arts Centre this February, Singapore Repertory Theatre’s (SRT) upcoming production will star local music darlings Nathan Hartono and Inch … Continue reading SRT’s The Last Five Years: An Interview with stars Inch Chua and Nathan Hartono on their offstage friendship, and relationship advice for all

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Arts, Chinese Theatre, Interview, Nine Years Theatre, Preview, Theatre

See You, Anniversary: An Interview with Nine Years Theatre’s Nelson Chia and Mia Chee on restaging their hit show and the importance of celebrating milestones

How do we measure the years in our lives? Following a sold-out run of 13 shows in 2022, Nine Years Theatre’s (NYT) hit original show See You, Anniversary returns to the stage in 2025, once again inviting audiences to immerse themselves in this heartwarming and thought-provoking production.Ranking among the best new shows of 2022, See You, Anniversary follows the love story of a couple who … Continue reading See You, Anniversary: An Interview with Nine Years Theatre’s Nelson Chia and Mia Chee on restaging their hit show and the importance of celebrating milestones

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Arts, musical, Review, Reviews, Sands Theatre, Theatre

★★★★☆ Review: Sunset Boulevard by Base Entertainment Asia

The sun never sets on an iconic musical. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard has always been one of the most strikingly gothic musicals in his canon, a sweeping adaptation of the original 1950 film that still resonates as an evergreen cautionary tale about Hollywood’s ruthless machinery that chews up and spits out anyone who dares to dream of making it big on the Sunset Strip. … Continue reading ★★★★☆ Review: Sunset Boulevard by Base Entertainment Asia

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Arts, Dance with Me, Interview, Singapore

Ballet by the Bay: An Interview with Hong Kong Ballet Artistic Director Septime Webre on reimagining Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland

As a surreal, high-concept literary masterpiece, Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland has always been fertile ground for adaptation, be it in film, theatre, or completely reimagined in other ways. For Hong Kong Ballet Artistic Director Septime Webre, it’s the perfect material to take ballet to the next level, as ALICE (in wonderland) arrives at the Esplanade this month. Originally choreographed for the Washington Ballet in … Continue reading Ballet by the Bay: An Interview with Hong Kong Ballet Artistic Director Septime Webre on reimagining Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland

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Arts, Interview, Music, Preview, Singapore, Theatre

Huayi 2025: An Interview with playwright Katherine Hui-ling Chou and director Lee Yi Hsiu on Siong Leng Musical Association’s ‘The Heart of Jun – Memoirs of Zhaojun’

Renowned through Chinese history as one of the legendary Four Beauties of China, Wang Zhaojun’s importance went far beyond her looks, with diplomatic importance in her marriage that helped establish friendly ties with the Han dynasty. And while she may have long departed from this world, echoes of her existence continue to exist in our modern day, one which Nanyin music specialists Siong Leng Musical … Continue reading Huayi 2025: An Interview with playwright Katherine Hui-ling Chou and director Lee Yi Hsiu on Siong Leng Musical Association’s ‘The Heart of Jun – Memoirs of Zhaojun’

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Arts, Pangdemonium, Preview, Singapore, Theatre

Preview: A Doll’s House, Part 2 by Pangdemonium!

Henrik Ibsen will always be a titan of contemporary theatre, and it’s no surprise that there remains great admiration and adulation for his work. Among them, A Doll’s House remains one of his most beloved, in its future-thinking feminist slant that saw an unhappily married woman break the chains of her nuptial prison, and slam the door behind her in an iconic final scene. Now, … Continue reading Preview: A Doll’s House, Part 2 by Pangdemonium!

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Chong Tze Chien takes the stage to chart the course for the next phase of the Singapore International Festival of Arts from 2026-2028

Singapore International Festival of Arts (SIFA), Singapore’s annual pinnacle performing arts festival organised by Arts House Limited (AHL), and commissioned by the National Arts Council (NAC), welcomes Chong Tze Chien as its Festival Director from 2026 to 2028. Chong succeeds Natalie Hennedige, who will conclude her four-year tenure this year with the 48th edition of SIFA, which runs from 16 May to 1 June 2025. … Continue reading Chong Tze Chien takes the stage to chart the course for the next phase of the Singapore International Festival of Arts from 2026-2028

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