Theatre

ARTS

Singapore’s food and hawker culture take to the stage

The city’s favourite dishes are powering new plays about who we are

Dick Lee and Jacintha Abisheganaden married in 1992 and divorced in 1997 after "the music stopped".
ARTS

Jacintha, Dick Lee and the truth about their marriage

Upcoming theatre show looks at their past through layered storytelling and music

In acting, as elsewhere, the elites are accruing ever more riches, and the rest face uncertain prospects.

What nobody clutching their Oscar this weekend will tell you

AI, streaming and media fragmentation are changing the economics of acting

The immersive, multi-room show The Lighthouse is expected to draw a broad cross-section of audiences.
FEATURE

SIFA 2026: The best shows, from free outdoor spectacles to theatre classics

Singapore International Festival of Arts spills beyond stages into lawns, riverfronts and late night parties

In May, Inch Chua will unveil her one-woman musical, Myles – Soulmate In A Box, about love in the age of artificial intelligence.
ARTS

From indie music to theatre: How weish and Inch Chua reinvented themselves 

Two Singapore artists turn from experimental soundscapes to ambitious stage storytelling

Netflix has promised to keep Warner Bros films exclusively in theatres for 45 days.

Netflix co-CEO says Warner deal to put more films in cinemas

The streaming company has historically put only a limited number of pictures in select theatres for short runs

The wedding drama A Mirror is one of three plays Pangdemonium will stage before the theatre company closes at the end of the year.
ARTS

Pangdemonium’s closure raises questions about theatre’s survival in Singapore

Rising production costs, artist burnout and administrative burdens are testing practitioners’ resilience

Stoppard developed a distinctive style combining serious ideas with comedy.

Oscar-winning UK playwright Tom Stoppard dies aged 88

Over a six-decade career, he wrote for the theatre, TV and radio, as well as film, earning multiple awards

Netflix decided to respond to the robust returns of the "KPop Demon Hunters Sing-Along" not by taking the public temperature and extending its theatrical run to a second weekend or beyond, but by promptly announcing its arrival on the service the very next day.

Netflix missed another opportunity with ‘KPop Demon Hunters’

The company’s belief that theatres are dead led it to the nonsensical decision to pull the sing-along box office hit after just one weekend