Theatre review

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.

Theatre review

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.

Theatre review

The Nether is a dirty, disturbing look into online fantasies

HuM Theatre presents American playwright Jennifer Haley’s The Nether, featuring (from left) Janine Ng and Subin Subaiah, a speculative dystopian work tackling virtual fantasies.

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.

Theatre review

Gripping Langkawi murders in spin on Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None

The Winter Players’ staging of “queen of crime” Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None sets the whodunnit on a Langkawi island.

Theatre review

Wild Rice’s Girls Girls Girls is a loving homage to queer women’s stories

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.

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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.