Performing arts

Concert review

Jazz and pop spice up Singapore International Piano Festival under Albert Tiu’s direction

American Conrad Tao played 15 short pieces reflecting a melting pot of cultures, where jazz, popular music and atonality found healthy parity.

Groceries for entry: How a night of music with local artistes fed some 280 families in Singapore

Chief executive of food charity Food From The Heart Robin Lee receiving food items on stage at Beatback, representing the donations made by concertgoers on June 28.

ST More than Grades

Born with hearing loss, Singapore Rhodes scholar spotlights disability through theatre

NUS theatre studies graduate, Jade Ow, 24, was born with moderate to severe deafness, and faced many challenges growing up.

NDP 2026: Orang Laut song pays tribute to S’pore’s coastal native communities in parade show

Orang Laut singer Asnida Daud’s performance of a song that she composed, arranged and wrote with her husband and son will feature in the parade’s third act.

Opera review

Singapore Lyric Opera’s Madama Butterfly digs into the psychology of its star-crossed lovers

Singapore Lyric Opera’s staging of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly features its artistic director and soprano Nancy Yuen in the lead role of Cio-Cio-San.

Against odds, Agam Theatre Lab organises first Singapore international Tamil theatre festival

Horror play Kaivarisai (The Monkey Paw) replaces Obsession’s one wish willow with the cursed monkey paw for a tense drama of human desire in 1935 Malaya.

Singapore Lyric Opera reinterprets Puccini’s ‘problematic’ Madama Butterfly

Director Harry Fehr (left) and soprano Nancy Yuen, who stars as Cio-Cio-San in the Singapore Lyric Opera’s staging of Madama Butterfly from July 2 to 4.

Theatre review

Pangdemonium’s Tracie Pang signs off with grippingly subversive censorship play A Mirror

Coco Wang Ling (left) and Ghafir Akbar as an assistant and her boss in A Mirror.

The Nether is a whodunnit play for the AI age

HuM Theatre's The Nether tackles internet fetishes and how they translate to real world actions.

Want to sing? Singapore choirs for every singer, from dabbler to pro

Try the viral one-day choir Sing Song Social Club, which meets once a month to learn a song, with no experience or audition required.

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