Urban Drama: Hong Kong’s Lyric Theatre is Finally Taking Shape

Christopher DewolfAugust 9, 2023

UNStudio founder Ben van Berkel explains how West Kowloon’s latest star venue is meant to connect with the city, inside and out...

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Eugene Ma Wants to Shake Up Hong Kong Theatre

Molly GroganJune 29, 2023

After success in the United States, Hong Kong-raised actor, director and educator is pushing the limits of Hong Kong theatre...

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A Hindu Epic Takes the Stage in Hong Kong

Molly GroganJune 9, 2023

Theatre director Tang Shu-wing has adapted the Bhagavad Gita into a play that channels the spirit of yoga...

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We Are Gay: Candace Chong and Tony Wong’s Dark New Collaboration

Molly GroganOctober 27, 2022

Two Hong Kong theatre heavyweights pull no punches in their new play about a love triangle gone awry...

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GayBird and Ata Wong Hack Our Technological Future

Molly GroganOctober 27, 2022

One of Hong Kong’s most enigmatic composers and performers teams up with Ata Wong for an unusual performance ...

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Home is a Plural Word: Playwright Pat To Yan’s Creative Evolution in Germany

Molly GroganOctober 12, 2022

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...

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Reimagining Hong Kong in Theatre Without Animals

Molly GroganJune 14, 2022

Young theatre collective Ima Collab explores imagined communities in a new Cantonese version of Jean-Michel Ribes' droll 2001 play...

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The Vanishing City: Tit Hong Lane and the Future of Hong Kong

Molly GroganMay 13, 2022

On and On Theatre Workshop director Chan Ping-chiu looks back at his childhood home in Central to understand how Hong Kong is changing...

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Unlocking the Potential of Dance: Six Mouths at the Cattle Depot

Simon CartledgeMay 5, 2022

Unlock Dancing Plaza transforms the Cattle Depot Artist Village into an interactive stage for an unusual dance production...

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To Be A Machine: Is Hong Kong the Last Place Where Lockdown Theatre Has a Place?

Molly GroganMarch 17, 2022

Dublin’s Dead Centre explores transhumanism in the final performance of a provocative virtual production...

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Ontroerend Goed’s Mischievous Optimism

Molly GroganMarch 2, 2022

A Belgian theatre company uses interactive performances to investigate the appeal of magical thinking in a time of crisis...

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Shakespeare’s Sonnets Hit the Hong Kong Stage

Molly GroganDecember 17, 2021

Ata Wong spent years developing #1314, a thoughtful, startling interpretation of the bard’s poems...

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Larger Than Life: In Love With an Android at Le French May

Molly GroganMay 6, 2021

Le French May's new Cantonese version of a play by Martial Courcier explores the role artificial intelligence plays in our lives....

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How Covid-19 is Reshaping the Performing Arts

Simon CartledgeMarch 25, 2021

The pandemic has forced Hong Kong's performers and their companies to rethink the nature of live performance. Will the changes last beyond Covid?...

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The Date That Must Not Be Named: Stage 64 Looks at the Tiananmen Square Massacre

Zabrina LoSeptember 4, 2019

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...

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Banned in China, Anthony Wong Finds a New Home in Theatre and Indie Films

Elizabeth KerrJuly 25, 2019

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....

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Shax, the Hong Kong Theatre Group That is Shaking Up Shakespeare

Zabrina LoJune 20, 2019

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....

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Guiding Principles: A New Play Takes Hong Kong’s Educational System to Task

Amanda SheppardOctober 23, 2018

The pressure of Hong Kong schooling take centre stage in a new version of the acclaimed Hong Kong Repertory Theatre production....

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Hong Kong’s Turbulent Times on Stage in Loong Hong-man’s A Floating Family

Elle KwanMarch 2, 2017

Award-winning playwright Loong Hong-man examines Hong Kong society on stage in a trilogy staged for this year’s Arts Festival....

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Hong Kong Actor Gabby So Brings Her Struggle to the Stage – in New York

Elle KwanNovember 16, 2016

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....

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Stages of Enlightenment: Theatre in Hong Kong

Elle KwanJanuary 21, 2016

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?...

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