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...
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How Justin Siu Made a Jazz Musical About Haruki Murakami
A brush with mortality inspired Hong Kong musician Justin Siu to pen The Jazz Winds of Haruki Murakami series...
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...
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...
Urban Drama: Hong Kong’s Lyric Theatre is Finally Taking Shape
UNStudio founder Ben van Berkel explains how West Kowloon’s latest star venue is meant to connect with the city, inside and out...
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...
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...
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...
Unlocking the Potential of Dance: Six Mouths at the Cattle Depot
Unlock Dancing Plaza transforms the Cattle Depot Artist Village into an interactive stage for an unusual dance production...
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...
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....
How Covid-19 is Reshaping the Performing Arts
The pandemic has forced Hong Kong's performers and their companies to rethink the nature of live performance. Will the changes last beyond Covid?...
The Date That Must Not Be Named: Stage 64 Looks at the Tiananmen Square Massacre
The founder of a theatre company dedicated to the memory of June 4 opens up about the struggle of keeping the flame alive in Hong Kong...
Banned in China, Anthony Wong Finds a New Home in Theatre and Indie Films
One of Hong Kong’s most acclaimed actors has found a second wind after his support for the Umbrella Movement blacklisted him on the mainland....
Shax, the Hong Kong Theatre Group That is Shaking Up Shakespeare
Rosalind Wong wants Hong Kong to love Shakespeare as much as she does – and now her unorthodox theatre company is collaborating with the Hong Kong Philharmonic....
Guiding Principles: A New Play Takes Hong Kong’s Educational System to Task
The pressure of Hong Kong schooling take centre stage in a new version of the acclaimed Hong Kong Repertory Theatre production....
Hong Kong’s Turbulent Times on Stage in Loong Hong-man’s A Floating Family
Award-winning playwright Loong Hong-man examines Hong Kong society on stage in a trilogy staged for this year’s Arts Festival....
Hong Kong Actor Gabby So Brings Her Struggle to the Stage – in New York
As she prepares to take the stage in New York, Hong Kong writer, producer and actor Gabby So recalls how she fought to bring her dreams to the stage....
Stages of Enlightenment: Theatre in Hong Kong
From improv in blackbox theatres to huge wonders of hypnotic circus, curtains are lifting on amazing theatre in Hong Kong. So where are these secret stages?...