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Ong Sor Fern

Senior Culture Correspondent

Theatre review: Brown Boys Don’t Tell Jokes offers detailed characterisation and serious themes

Arts Picks: Drum Tao, early Chinese mutual aid organisations and Vox Llinette concert

Commercial tenants in arts and heritage buildings contribute to foot traffic, bottom lines

Pesta Raya 2023: Music acts from keroncong to Dayang Nurfaizah, and theatre treats

I’d like to see more S’poreans appreciate local arts, and pay for it: Edwin Tong

Book review: Lady Macbethad reclaims real 11th-century woman behind the Scottish play

Arts Picks: Henry Purcell’s Dido, caregiving workshop and alcohol in Chinese history

Four new commissions, overseas shows for Singapore International Festival of Arts 2023

Objectifs expands into Artichoke space in 2024, seeks to raise $600,000

Arts institutions offer corporate training and retreat programmes with a twist

Drama Box, The Necessary Stage address issues of queer ageing in two plays

Theatre review: Tri Ka Tsai is a tuneful and subversive exploration of Hong Kong identity

Take a tour, watch a play: How the arts can give Singapore tourism a boost

Book review: Essays about Art Spiegelman’s Maus prove the graphic novel is a classic

Theatre review: Kafka’s Ape addresses racism in a tour de force performance

Arts Picks: Aliwal Urban Art Festival, Fan Shao Hua and Growing Home

Theatre review: Never The Bride is a choppy series of vignettes addressing gay marriage

Foodie treats in Taiwan’s laidback Yilan County

Arts Picks: The Culture Story’s Collecting Bodies, Asian Film Archive’s Anna May Wong double bill

Artsy heritage gems and laid-back getaways in Taipei

Year of revenge arts programming

Taipei Fine Arts Museum’s show revisits Taiwanese arts, entertainment of the 1980s

Huayi – Chinese Festival of Arts 2023 has live international acts for the first time in two years

Book review: Jim Crace’s Eden is a slice of storytelling heaven