This comedy inspired by Federico Fellini's filmmaking foibles and womanizing ways starts amusingly, but ultimately disappoints.
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Theatre Review (Singapore): ‘Gitanjali [I Feel the Earth Move]’ by The Necessary Stage
Despite a too-common plot, this entertaining play about an Indian Odissi dancer was well-acted and danced.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Mr. Landing Takes a Fall’ by Sari Caine
Inspired by 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?', this new production from Slightly Altered States is absurd, emotionally acute, Python-esque, brilliantly acted, and ultimately incomprehensible.
Read More »Theatre Review (Singapore): ‘The Arsonists’ at Hot Chocolate Theatre
Though the production is very problematic, it should be considered a feather in Hot Chocolate's cap that this brand-new amateur theatre could do something difficult.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Valley of Astonishment’ by Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne
Stories of synaesthesia inspired by Oliver Sacks, a celebrated mnemonist, and an ancient Sufi poem.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The McGowan Trilogy’ by Seamus Scanlon
This taut and suspenseful character play concerns a youth, a 'charming bad boy' with murderous urges, who lends his services to the IRA.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Embers’ by Samuel Beckett
'Embers' succeeds a good deal more dramatically than one might have expected from a radio play transferred to the stage.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Bauer’ by Lauren Gunderson
Rudolph Bauer's work was not shown for many years where it should have been shown, in the Guggenheim Museum. How was this modernist painter and influential Abstract Expressionist overlooked and silenced? The mystery is revealed in Lauren Gunderson's fine play in which she re-imagines Hilla von Rebay visiting with her lover Bauer long after his marriage to his maid Louise and von Rebay's release from the Guggenheim Museum project.
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Read More »Hot Chocolate Theatre, Singapore’s First Repertory Theatre, to Open with ‘The Arsonists’
Singapore has never had a true repertory theatre before.
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