Theatre Review: One Love, A Legacy – Celebrating Joanna & Leslie Wong and Chinese Theatre Circle 《一缕柔情千秋业》

Documentary, biographical theatre tracing Chinese Theatre Circle’s roots, its impact, and the love that’s carried it for 45 years and beyond. For 45 years, Chinese Theatre Circle has been doing something no other company has done for as long and as fiercely as they have: keeping Chinese opera alive in Singapore. And to commemorate that, One Love, A Legacy: Celebrating Joanna & Leslie Wong and … Continue reading Theatre Review: One Love, A Legacy – Celebrating Joanna & Leslie Wong and Chinese Theatre Circle 《一缕柔情千秋业》

Preview: One Love, A Legacy – Celebrating Joanna & Leslie Wong and Chinese Theatre Circle by Chinese Theatre Circle

For more than six decades, Joanna Wong has devoted her life to Cantonese opera. She has performed it, taught it, modernised it and taken it around the world. Alongside her late husband, Leslie Wong, she also helped build one of Singapore’s most important Chinese opera institutions from the ground up. Now, as Chinese Theatre Circle (CTC) marks its 45th anniversary, that extraordinary journey is coming … Continue reading Preview: One Love, A Legacy – Celebrating Joanna & Leslie Wong and Chinese Theatre Circle by Chinese Theatre Circle

Esplanade’s The Studios 2026: An interview with Ingrid Voorendt, Associate Director, Back to Back Theatre on ‘Multiple Bad Things’

In a placeless warehouse at the end of the world, three employees are given a possibly pointless task. As they struggle to work together, the boundaries between cooperation and conflict begin to fray. What starts with politeness gradually descends into sly victimisation and bad behaviour, while language shifts from playful and absurd to threatening and deadly serious. In MULTIPLE BAD THINGS, award-winning Australian company Back … Continue reading Esplanade’s The Studios 2026: An interview with Ingrid Voorendt, Associate Director, Back to Back Theatre on ‘Multiple Bad Things’

Pangdemonium’s Falling: An Interview with star Andrew Marko on reprising an iconic role eight years on, and the difficulty of tough love

Maybe it’s because of good genetics, but Andrew Marko is the kind of man you look at and looks eternally youthful. Even in his 30s, there’s something about his demeanour that still suggests a child-like sense of wonder and innocence, while carrying the hidden weight of experiences he’s willing to put onstage. All that makes him the perfect candidate to return to the role where … Continue reading Pangdemonium’s Falling: An Interview with star Andrew Marko on reprising an iconic role eight years on, and the difficulty of tough love