SHORT+SWEET Malaysia 2011 Musical Winners

S+S Musical 2011: Results. A big thumbs up and congratulations to all participants for making it an exciting 4 days. Here are the results for the S+S Musical 2011: Best Supporting Actor (Male): Kevin Chong – MY PRINCE WILL COME Best Supporting Actor (Female): Aminda Faradilla Omar – A TASTE OF LOVE Best Actor (Male): Nick Dorian – ORIENTAL...

Short+Sweet Musical 2011 – Licky Licky ! (Dustyhawk.net | 29th Sept)

Short and sweet, no no dear friends, Serge is not talking about the length of his solidus snake nor is he referring to the saccharine taste of it. He is talking about THE BIGGEST LITTLE FESTIVAL IN THE WORLD !! Yes folks, Short+Sweet is back for the third year running and starting from yesterday until October 30th, 2011, the Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts...

Short, Sweet and Explosive (New Straits Times | September 26 2011)

Showbiz: Short, sweet and explosive by Aref Omar | September 26 2011 With little bits of artistic creativity to entice and excite, Short + Sweet Malaysia is back. But this time, it’s bigger and better, writes AREF OMAR JUST like the unassuming little chilli padi, the Short + Sweet (S+S) Malaysia festival aims to make an explosive impact with its diminutive set...

A Twist of Tales (The Star Parenthots | 21 September 2011)

A Twist of Tales by Fiona Ho | 21 September 2011 It was one of those clammy evenings that were better suited for hot coffee and cake when I found myself hobbling about the rustic area of the Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre in Sentul last Friday. It was starting to rain by the time I located the entry and was greeted by the pleasant theatre veteran Sham...

Much Ado About Ian!

Ian Chow,  singer-songwriter extraordinaire and group theatre manager of klpac, The Actors Studio and penangpac speaks about his work in Christopher Ling’s upcoming Much Ado About Nothing. How did you come to be involved into the production? I started as a singer-songwriter in 2004 but started writing songs for theatre for the past 2 years. I started to...

Interview with the female cast of Much Ado About Nothing

Which character do you play in Much Ado About Nothing?  Tell us a little more about him/her. Devyani Gupta (Devyani): I’m playing two characters – Borachio and Margaret (one male and one female). I’m actually the only actor playing the opposite gender in this play. Borachio is an evil sidekick while Margaret is a shy maid. The interesting...

Interview with the male cast of Much Ado About Nothing

Which character do you play in Much Ado About Nothing?  Tell us a little more about him/her. Tung Jit Yang: Dogberry and Balthasar. Dogberry is a bumbling clown. Balthasar is sort of a bard. Nick Dorian: I play Benedick. He is a very noble man and is quite witty. But that being said, when it comes to love, he knows almost nothing about it and is quite a boy...

SHORT+SWEET MUSICAL 2011 (The Selangor Times | 23 Sep)

Short and Sweet Musical 2011 by Nick Choo from The Selangor Times. Please click on image below to view the full-sized...

Green Adventure (The Star | 9 Sep)

Green Adventure by Sheela Chandran | September 9 2011 Adventure Theatre, Washington’s longest running theatre company, aspires to make the green dream come true with Just A Dream. WASHINGTON-based Adventure Theatre’s staging of eco-play Just A Dream – The Green Play (JAD), seems like the perfect opportunity to enlighten children on the importance of...

T4YP Much Ado About Nothing (Dustyhawk.net | 23 Sep)

T4YP Much Ado About Nothing Love, deceit, tragedy and comedy came together in Much Ado About Nothing performed by the talented artiste of Theatre For Young People (T4YP). Talented indeed as yesterday at The Actor’s Studio @Lot 10, they perform the classic work of William Shakespeare. Serge was here to cover the event thanks to the good folks at KLPAC and...

Off The Press: Seeing Red – Review (Selangor Times | 9th Sep)

Passionately You “Don’t Duck It”

The Passionately YOU Cervical & Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign is a voluntary collaboration between Assunta Hospital, Asia Assistance, Jaya One and PJ Live Arts, supported by The Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre; is founded to encourage the community to support the cause for cervical & breast cancer awareness and early detection. It also helps...

World’s Best Movies (3rd & 4th Sept)

Film buffs will be pleased that The Actors Studio will be revisiting some classic films from across the globe and sharing them with you. From August to September, World’s Best Movies will be showcasing two films including Buffalo ’66 (1998) and Wings (1966). Date & Time: 3rd Saturday & 4th Sunday September 2011 @ 8:30pm Venue: Indicine, klpac...

The Story of Adam & Eve: It’s all about You (12th Sept)

Romanna Entertainment presents a creative fusion of modern and traditional music, The Story of Adam & Eve: It’s all about you. Peyman Khan, the musical director, wants to illustrate a new language with different genres to connect different cultures. He composed, arranged and sequenced the tracks specifically for these amazing heart-shaking movements...

Too Much CO2 (15th Sept)

Cao Min Pictures Sdn Bhd presents a film screening: Too Much CO2 The story is about a promising young man, hold the post of secretary of a politician. Because of his honest and frank disposition, he is always under the pressure of the public. At the end, he decided to resign. After resignation, he was temporarily stayed in his friend’s house.  He had nothing...

The 8th Kua Bu Dance Showcase ‘Wandering Within’ (16th – 18th Sept)

Kwang Tung Dance Company (KTDC) presents “The 8th Kua Bu Dance Showcase <Wandering Within> 2011″. Date & Time: 16 – 17 Sep @ 8.30pm; 17 Sep @ 3pm (students only); 18 Sep 2011 @ 3pm (Dance Tea Time – by invitation only) Venue: Pentas 2, klpac Tickets by Donation: RM35 (adults) / RM25 (students, sr. citizens & the...

MyDance Festival 2011 (9th-24th Sept)

MyDance Festival 2011 is presented by MyDance Alliance in partnership with Asia Dance Magazine and University Malaya The fourth MyDance Festival brings the exuberance and energy of dance to Kuala Lumpur. Experience the mystery of butoh, the magic of classical Indian dance or the physical spectacle of contemporary dance. Challenge yourself with masterclasses by...

Just A Dream – The Green Play (15th – 24th Sept)

SRT’s The Little Company in association with Adventure Theatre Washington DC presents Just a Dream – the hottest play about keeping the earth cool! When it comes to the environment, young Walter is far from enlightened. He’s a litterbug who believes sorting trash is a big waste of time. But one night, Walter dreams about a very different...

T4YP presents Much Ado About Nothing (22nd-25th Sept)

The T4YP 2011 ensemble presents its last performance for the season this September. Paying tribute to The Bard, they will be staging Much Ado About Nothing. Benedick and Beatrice, and Claudio and Hero are deeply in love. Beatrice and Benedick are deeply in denial. All is well. Then Claudio humiliates Hero. Hero has a fainting attack and pretends to die. And...

Paul Loosley’s George & Oscar on Film (18th, 25th Sept)

For this year’s second series ‘On Film’, Paul Loosley examines the broad cinema canon of a couple of fiercely intelligent Irish playwrights; both Dublin-born, a little more than a year apart, who, while both having much to say about society, were using their remarkable writing skills to say quite dramatically different things in quite contrastingly...