Elijah Wong

Aug 15, 2023 | straitstimes.com | Elijah Wong

SINGAPORE – The stories of Guan Yin, the Buddhist goddess of mercy and compassion, come to life with the aid of sand art, music and other stage effects in a new show. Guan Yin The Musical, produced by Malaysia-based Asia Musical Productions (AMP) presented by Di Zang Lin Singapore, will run at Victoria Theatre from Nov 24 to 26. The show premiered in 2016 as The Story Of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva in Kuala Lumpur, and was restaged in Penang in 2022.

Aug 12, 2023 | straitstimes.com | Maud Ventura |Emma Ramadan |Elijah Wong

My HusbandBy Maud Ventura, translated by Emma RamadanThriller/HarperVia/Hardcover/272 pages/$28.99/Amazon SG (amzn.to/442QSP6)4 starsMaud Ventura’s 2021 debut novel My Husband begins with a statement that is often a harbinger of trouble in paradise: “We need to find a moment to talk.”Those dreaded words from her husband send the unnamed narrator, a 40-year-old Frenchwoman who works part-time as an English teacher and English-French translator, into a spiral.

Aug 2, 2023 | straitstimes.com | Elijah Wong

SINGAPORE – 2:22 – A Ghost Story is a play about things that go bump in the night. And the cast members come to the story with varying degrees of belief about the supernatural. The hit play, which won a WhatsOnStage Award for Best New Play in 2022, is on at the KC Arts Centre from Aug 15 to Sept 3. The prize is given out annually by London-based theatre website WhatsOnStage.com based on the public’s vote. Already a subscriber?