Performing arts

Wild Rice play Girls Girls Girls is a docudrama inspired by the lives of 20 queer women

(Back row, from left) Cast members Eve Voigtlander, Tan Rui Shan, Mehr Dudeja, Yap Yi Kai and (front row, from left) Farah Ong with director Deonn Yang.

Theatre review

Immersive theatre BIG BIG Small Small lifts audiences above banal existence and into the stars

Joanna Dong asks questions of existence amid Dawn Ng’s painting-sculptures.

ST’s picks of the best shows at SIFA 2026

The Straits Times’ arts team of editor Ong Sor Fern and writers Clement Yong and Shawn Hoo picks their best watches.

Singapore International Festival of Arts attendance breaches 100,000, ticket sales jump 40 per cent

Automata: Crawling Under Tiger at Singapore International Festival of Arts 2026.

Trump says he will ‘transfer’ control of Kennedy Center to Congress after court setback

A federal judge in Washington on May 29 ordered that the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts remove President Donald Trump's name from the building's facade and all official branding, finding that the board's decision to add it was unlawful.

Theatre review

Lee Hye-young’s more muted Hedda Gabler takes some joy out of Ibsen

Hedda Gabler is played by South Korean actress Lee Hye-young.

Calling all diva dogs: S’pore theatre company SRT to hold pup auditions for Legally Blonde musical

The search will take place at event The Proud Pet Parade on June 6 at New Bahru.

Sydney light show called off after malfunctioning drones crash into water

Fireworks explode over the harbour illuminating the Opera House and Harbour Bridge on the opening night of the annual Vivid Sydney festival in Sydney on May 22.

Life After... depression: Turning to theatre to spotlight mental health, tackle youth concerns

Ms Priscilla Khong, 45, executive director of Gateway Arts, at the Gateway Theatre on April 1.

Singapore hopes to be a creative node for South-east Asia: President Tharman

President Tharman Shanmugaratnam on stage at the International Society for the Performing Arts (ISPA) congress at the Singtel Waterfront Theatre. With him is emcee Munah Bhagarib.

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