Theatre review

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.

Theatre review

Sleek police drama An Interrogation demands more than actors can deliver

In An Interrogation, the young but rising detective Ruth Palmer (Nadya Zaheer) has a hunch that the suave and slick Cameron Andrews (Salif Hardie) is her guy.

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.

Theatre review

Promenade theatre work reflects Drama Box’s deep engagement with Pulau Ubin

In The Middle Of The Water is a promenade theatre work written by Kok Heng Leun and performed by Chng Xin Xuan.

Theatre review

Singapore singer Jacintha steps beyond comfort zone in Lush Life to mixed results

Lush Life is a biographical theatre work inspired by the life of jazz singer Jacintha Abisheganaden.

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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.