Arts & Culture

Few Chinese composers can attest to having the same amount of reverence as Maestro Peng Xiuwen does. The late music doyen (1931-1996) left behind a legacy as a leading light in the contemporary Chinese music scene, essentially the founding father of the genre of ‘Chinese orchestral music’ whose efforts led to the spread and export of Chinese music across the …

Westlife, the Irish boyband who disbanded in 2012, have reunited since October last year, with an exciting announcement of new music and a new tour. Formed in 1998, the band consists of Kian Egan, Nicky Byrne, Shane Filan, Brian McFadden and Markus Feehily, who were hugely popular in the late 90s and early ‘00s for their pop hits such as …

WILD RICE, one of Singapore’s renowned theatre company, is all set to open the door of its latest 350-seat theatre at the Funan lifestyle complex. Although the official opening will be taking place in September 2019, but the company will be having a Housewarming Season in July 2019 itself, ahead of the grand launch. Housewarming Season is a programme that …

WILD RICE announces its upcoming Housewarming Season, which offers audiences a sneak peek of the company’s new theatre at the Funan lifestyle complex ahead of its official opening in September 2019. The programme will feature sold-out smash-hits from the 2018 Singapore Theatre Festival, as well as a brand-new production by the rising talents of Young & WILD, WILD RICE’s award-winning …

Sociologist Teo You Yenn has been named a finalist for Straits Times (ST) Singaporean of the Year 2018 for her book This is What Inequality Looks Like which is described as having ‘sparked a national conversation on socio-economic inequality in Singapore’. The book is based on You Yenn’s three-year study which started in 2013 and involved speaking to over 200 …

The Necessary Stage’s Theatre For Seniors (TFS) has established itself as a professional theatre group with skilled senior actors in Singapore. For its 10th year anniversary, TFS is presenting a production jointly devised and performed by seniors called It Takes All Kinds. One of the hallmarks of TFS since its establishment in 2008 was the well-loved Encore series of short …

The Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) has received the arts entertainment (AE) licence application for the RuPaul’s Drag Race: Werq the World live show – based on the Emmy award-winning reality television series RuPaul’s Drag Race – and will assess the performance in accordance with the AECC, said Minister for Communications and Information S Iswaran on 15 Jan. Responding to Nee Soon Member of Parliament …

Major-General William Farquhar did more for the success of Singapore than Sir Stamford Raffles, said Ambassador-at-large Tommy Koh at the launch of the book, 200 Years of Singapore and the United Kingdom, held at the National Museum of Singapore. The book, published by Straits Times, features a collection of essays by scholars, historians and subject specialists from Singapore and the …

Checkpoint Theatre is kicking off their 2019 season with a tender and lyrical look at life and art-making through the eyes, words and works of artist-writer Dana Lam. Still Life is a new play directed and dramaturged by Claire Wong and performed by Dana Lam and Jean Ng. Presented in collaboration with TheatreWorks, the play will run from 28th February …

Chee Soon Juan, the Secretary-general of the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) just launched his new book entitled Never on Bended Knees. The book features a collection of Mr Chee’s thoughts and observations in Singapore spanning the last two decades. In her introduction of the book at the launch on 26 Jan held at SDP’s headquarters, assistant treasurer of SDP Dr …