Theatre review

Theatre review

A Matter Of Taste at Michelin-starred Nouri serves up sensuous biography

Checkpoint Theatre and Restaurant Nouri’s collaboration A Matter Of Taste offers a biography of the restaurant’s Brazilian founder Ivan Brehm.

Theatre review

Agam Theatre Lab’s Kai Varisai fails to make a wish on its cursed monkey paw

Karls Karthikeyan lolls his tongue and jerks his head as an eccentric senior historian.

Theatre review

Tabitha Nauser and Frances Lee bring different shades of Mary Magdalene to Jesus Christ Superstar

Singaporean singer Tabitha Nauser (left) and Frances Lee as Mary Magdalene in the musical Jesus Christ Superstar.

Theatre review

Multiple Bad Things’ intriguing vignettes do not quite add up to an idea

Australian theatre company Back To Back Theatre’s Multiple Bad Things plays at the Singtel Waterfront Theatre as part of the Esplanade’s Studios season.

Theatre review

Handle With Care is a modest effort at unrehearsed storytelling with a box as the director

A Singapore audience trying out Ontroerend Goed’s Handle With Care.

Theatre review

Moments of brilliance in Mehr Theatre’s Blind Runner but play runs out of momentum

Iran’s Amir Reza Koohestani and Mehr Theatre Group present Blind Runner at Esplanade’s The Studios season.

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Nathania Ong is golden in SRT’s perfectly cast bubblegum pop musical Legally Blonde

Nathania Ong supported by a sparkling ensemble allows SRT to carry the blockbuster cultural weight of Legally Blonde with top-notch flair.

Theatre review

Fragments Of Tuah pretty to look at, but patchy narrative fails to engage beyond Malaysian shores

Performer Faiq Syazwan Kuhiri stars in Fragments Of Tuah which kicks off the Esplanade’s Studios season.

Theatre review

In National Service play Charged, a shoot-out challenges Singapore’s racial harmony narrative

Actor Irsyad Dawood in rehearsal for Teater Ekamatra’s staging of Charged, written by Chong Tze Chien.

Theatre review

Ants Chua’s debut Common Room is an anti-drama about how queer youth talk and play

Siti Sara Hamid (left) and Genevieve Tan in Common Room, staged by Checkpoint Theatre.

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MDDI (P) 046/10/2025. Published by SPH Media Limited, Co. Regn. No.202120748H. Copyright © 2026 SPH Media Limited. All rights reserved.