When the World Is Your Enemy, Play a Game
Musician, designer and artist Jing Wong has created an unusual immersive theatre experience inspired by role-playing games...
Molly Grogan
‘The Liar’ Confronts Reality in the Post-Truth Age
Hong Kong actor Tai Yin Chan joins Danish director Tua Biering for a new stage play that shakes us out of complacency...
Meet Caro Chan, Hong Kong’s Rising Chinese-Nigerian Star
Caro Chan is gaining attention from theatre to TV to standup comedy, all while navigating her identity as a Chinese Hongkonger with Igbo roots...
Hedwig and the Angry Inch Finally Comes to Hong Kong
Ivanhoe Lam has given the beloved musical a local adaptation to create a rollicking Hong Kong version of the genderqueer classic...
Crime and Punishment in the Age of Anger
Playwright Phillip Breen rethinks Dostoyevsky’s classic for an Asian metropolis under pressure...
Theatre du Pif’s Love Letter to Hong Kong
A fantastical new play taps into the writing of Xi Xi to explore the spirit of a place at risk of erasure...
Liu Xiaoyi’s Creative Revolution
A new Hong Kong performance is the latest in the Singaporean theatre maven’s attempt to foster an artist-led creative ecosystem...
What Do You Know About French Hong Kong?
After his play based on Gweilo, Hoi Fai Wu explores another facet of expat life in the documentary stage production Pas de deux à Hong Kong...
Good Fortune: A French Director Embraces Hong Kong
Nicolas Kerszenbaum’s ethnographic style of theatre bridges the gap between Hong Kong and Paris ...
“Miss Julie”: Amy Ng Brings a “Problem Play” to Hong Kong
August Strindberg’s 1888 play is rewritten to explore race and class in colonial Hong Kong...
Jordan Cheng: The Genial Striver of Hong Kong Musical Theatre
An actor’s talent is surpassed only by his commitment to Hong Kong...
The Old Man and the Sea is Now a Cantonese Opera
Ernest Hemingway's classic novella has been adapted by Cantonese opera legend Yuen Siu-fai and theatre director Tang Shu-wing...
Eugene Ma Wants to Shake Up Hong Kong Theatre
After success in the United States, Hong Kong-raised actor, director and educator is pushing the limits of Hong Kong theatre...
A Hindu Epic Takes the Stage in Hong Kong
Theatre director Tang Shu-wing has adapted the Bhagavad Gita into a play that channels the spirit of yoga...
Good Fortune: A Family Drama Rooted in Hong Kong Life
French director Nicolas Kerszenbaum plunges head-first into Hong Kong in a new project commissioned by French May...
Hong Kong’s Celebrity Accountant Tells the Story of His Family’s Renowned Restaurant
Before Roger Lee was a movie industry accountant and acclaimed screenwriter, he worked at the beloved Orchard Garden, whose story he has now put on stage in 'All Good Things'...
Sunny Chan is Putting the Spotlight on Sun Yat-sen — And Himself
Director Sunny Chan sheds light on his new musical about revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen for the Hong Kong Arts Festival...
We Are Gay: Candace Chong and Tony Wong’s Dark New Collaboration
Two Hong Kong theatre heavyweights pull no punches in their new play about a love triangle gone awry...
GayBird and Ata Wong Hack Our Technological Future
One of Hong Kong’s most enigmatic composers and performers teams up with Ata Wong for an unusual performance ...
Home is a Plural Word: Playwright Pat To Yan’s Creative Evolution in Germany
Known for intimate, immersive works in Hong Kong, Pat To Yan’s time in Germany has led to a new series of ambitious plays exploring dystopian futures...
The Troubled State of Performing Arts in Hong Kong
As the government reorganises its approach to culture, prompting fears of overt censorship, what does the future hold for performing arts in Hong Kong?...
Reimagining Hong Kong in Theatre Without Animals
Young theatre collective Ima Collab explores imagined communities in a new Cantonese version of Jean-Michel Ribes' droll 2001 play...
The Vanishing City: Tit Hong Lane and the Future of Hong Kong
On and On Theatre Workshop director Chan Ping-chiu looks back at his childhood home in Central to understand how Hong Kong is changing...
To Be A Machine: Is Hong Kong the Last Place Where Lockdown Theatre Has a Place?
Dublin’s Dead Centre explores transhumanism in the final performance of a provocative virtual production...
Ontroerend Goed’s Mischievous Optimism
A Belgian theatre company uses interactive performances to investigate the appeal of magical thinking in a time of crisis...
Shakespeare’s Sonnets Hit the Hong Kong Stage
Ata Wong spent years developing #1314, a thoughtful, startling interpretation of the bard’s poems...
Toolbox Manoeuvre: The Beat of Hong Kong on Stage
A percussion-based musical group is bringing together other artistic disciplines to channel the city's ethos into their work...
The People Speak: A Remarkable Moment in 100% Hong Kong
Twice delayed, 100% Hong Kong hit the stage in a remarkable moment of theatre that tapped into the heart of what makes this city so special....
Two Productions of The Plague Push the Boundary of Theatre
The Hong Kong Arts Festival has simultaneously commissioned two provocative productions of Neil Bartlett’s The Plague, an adaptation of Albert Camus’ famous novella...
Larger Than Life: In Love With an Android at Le French May
Le French May's new Cantonese version of a play by Martial Courcier explores the role artificial intelligence plays in our lives....
