Pangdemonium

Once upon a time, in a marvellous multiverse of musical fairy-tale heroes and villains…The Witch, the Wolf, the Giant and the Stepmother have unleashed pandemonium on the kingdom. Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Jack (of Beanstalk fame) and the Baker assemble to avenge the evils dealt to the people. On their mission to save their world, they venture into the woods.But their path is booby-trapped with blips, as they get entrapped by Daydreams, ensnared by Desires, and enslaved by Wishes. And then things 

Into the Woods (2023)

Cast

Meet Emma – professional actor, consummate performer, chameleon-like make-believer.Meet Emma – pathological pretender, compulsive liar, hopeless addict.&nbsp;Committed to&nbsp;rehab, she desperately clings on to her alter egos and imagined personas, as her world spirals into a surreal abyss. Friends, family members and fellow addicts morph into figments of fantasy, her sense of self fragments, and she is forced to ask: which version of me is the real me?&nbsp;Together with Emma, we embark on a thrilling, tr

People, Places & Things (2023)

Singapore Repertory Theatre

One of the most successful Singaporean shows of all-time,&nbsp;The LKY Musical,&nbsp;returns this September.Presented by Aiwei and Singapore Repertory Theatre, this&nbsp;will be the first large-scale musical to take place here in over two years!Watched by over 50,000 people during its first run in 2015, this home-grown&nbsp;musical tells Lee Kuan Yew’s story -&nbsp;from his student days in 1941 to Singapore’s independence in 1965.&nbsp;Starring&nbsp;Adrian Pang&nbsp;and&nbsp;Kit Chan, with music by&nbsp;Dic

The LKY Musical (2022)

She’s a loving wife. A devoted mother. And a woman slowly losing her grip on reality.

She is suspicious of her husband: what is he up to? Why is he so eager to go on his business trip?

She misses her son: why did he move out of their home? What is he hiding from her?

She feels uneasy about her son’s girlfriend: is she good for her son? Is she who she says she is?

Her doubts about her husband begin to border on paranoia. Her “empty nest” pining for her son starts to seem like lovesickness. Her ne

The Mother (2021)

Wild Rice

A sharp satire on theatre-making in a pandemic and an irreverent look at the unlikely collaboration of three wildly different Singaporean artistic directors,&nbsp;The Commission&nbsp;is the entertaining live sequel to the circuit-breaking short film,&nbsp;The Pitch.

When Singapore Repertory Theatre’s Gaurav Kripalani, Wild Rice’s Ivan Heng, and Pangdemonium’s Adrian Pang collaborated for the first time on the short film&nbsp;The Pitch, it seemed like just a (virtual) stage they were going through.

Lit

The Commission (2021)

“This is not about how much you love your son.
It’s about protecting him.
In these circumstances, love is not enough.”

Nicolas appears to be your average 16-year-old – sullen, silent, and secretive.

Except it seems like only yesterday that he was a happy, lively boy with a bright future, and a smile that would light up the room.

Shuttling back and forth between his divorced parents, Pierre and Anne, his behaviour becomes increasingly erratic: Pierre’s new partner Sofia observes that Nicolas is “u

The Son (2020)

“Fight for the right to pee for free,&nbsp;
wherever you like,&nbsp;
whenever you like,&nbsp;
for as long as you like,&nbsp;
and with whomever you like!”

In a fictional “most expensive city in the world”, a “cross-border water crisis” has led to a government ban on private lavatories. The woeful water shortage sees the erection of pay-to-pee public toilets operated by an all-powerful corporation, Urine Good Company, owned by the megalomaniac Caldwell B. Cladwell. Breaking the laws against gratuitous 

Urinetown: The Musical (2019)

Sex.&nbsp;Violence.&nbsp;Blurred lines.

An undergrad and a lecturer begin a precarious flirtation. Two workmates go on a date that each remembers very differently. A long lost bogeyman returns to draw new blood from old scars.&nbsp;

Eight bodies collide. Eight souls crisscross. Eight lives get entangled in a web of pain, shame and heartbreak. And the world as they each know it will never be the same again.

Millions around the world are being pulled into the #MeToo minefield and the Time’s Up tsunam

This Is What Happens To Pretty Girls (2019)

Debora and Michael’s dinner guests are late. About one year late. That’s because it’s taken all this time for the couple to even dare to come face to face with Tamara and Bill, and their teenage son Curtis – the bully they believe is responsible for the suicide of their own son Joel.

For Debora and Michael, tonight is a nerve-racking step towards coming to terms with their loss; for Tamara and Bill, it’s a meeting they’ve been dreading but never expected to ever happen; and for Curtis, it’s going to be t

Late Company (2019)

Winner of five Tony Awards, Peter and the Starcatcher is a hilarious, hair-raising, and heartwarming prequel to the Peter Pan legend, and a celebration of the innocence, imagination and resilience of the Child.

Singapore, 1885: we join Molly (a precocious young Starcatcher-in-training) and three orphan boys on a secret mission – a perilous voyage across seas infested by treacherous pirates, fearsome savages, and dubious mermaids, to a faraway island ruled by an evil king. All for the sake of the mystical

Peter and the Starcatcher (2018)

The year is 2021. Climate change is wreaking havoc across the globe. Donald Trump has been re-elected US President for a second term. Brexit is in full effect and causing chaos all over Europe. In the wake of escalating wars in the Middle East, famine in West Africa, and relentless terrorist attacks by radical extremists, the UK – and many nations around the world – has enforced a ban on all immigration.

With the coastline around him and life as he knows it crumbling to dust, Leslie Chen is forced to aba

Dragonflies (2018)

The 2015 Winner of five Tony Awards, including Best Musical,&nbsp;FUN HOME&nbsp;is “a blazingly original heartbreaker, and a nonstop theatre of invention.” (Newsday)

Fun Home&nbsp;is a powerful coming-of-age tale based on Alison Bechdel’s best-selling autobiographical memoir of the same name. The result is a gripping portrayal of a daughter’s determination to connect with her enigmatic, volatile and brilliant father.

As we interact with Alison at three different ages, startling memories of her dysfunc

Fun Home (2017)

Tracie Pang

Adrian Pang

Stephanie Street

The year is 2021. Climate change is wreaking havoc across the&nbsp;globe, “Brexit” is causing chaos all over Europe and Donald&nbsp;Trump has been re-elected United States president for a second&nbsp;term. In the wake of escalating wars in the Middle East, famine in&nbsp;West Africa and relentless terrorist attacks by radical extremists,&nbsp;the United Kingdom - and many nations around the world - has&nbsp;enforced a ban on all&nbsp;immigration.

With the coastline around him and life as he knows it crum

Dragonflies (2017)

Producer

In 2007, an acclaimed production of this play was staged in Singapore, directed by Tracie Pang, and was described in a Flying Inkpot review as “absolutely unmissable”. A decade later, in response to overwhelming demand from our audiences, we are thrilled to announce the return of&nbsp;THE PILLOWMAN.

A writer of short stories is being questioned by the police regarding a series of child murders. What do his stories have to do with the gruesome deaths? Why is his brother, a gentle man-child with special ne

The Pillowman (2017)

An American businessman (Daniel Jenkins) with a shady past travels to China to seal a lucrative deal for his sign-making business, and soon realizes that much more than language gets lost in translation. Like Dorothy in Oz, he meets a colourful menagerie of characters, each one a crouching tiger with a hidden agenda – a gorgeous femme fatale (Oon Shu An), a three-faced politician (Adrian Pang), and a series of increasingly incompetent interpreters. As our dis-Orientated hero falls helplessly into intrigue w

Chinglish (2015)

Tami and Bill are ordinary parents doing their best to bring up their two teenage kids – Lisa, 16, full of attitude and angst; and Josh, who demands extraordinary attention, because he’s an 18-year-old boy with severe autism. Family life is a precarious balancing act revolving around Josh, his routines, his obsessions, and the rigid set of rules that have been created for them to get through each day.

When this delicate balance is shattered, it literally becomes a matter of life and death for this family

Falling (2016)

Connie is a beautiful psychology student. Tristan is a charming slacker. They are both “guinea pigs” in a clinical experiment for a new “super-drug”. Sealed off from the real world and monitored by two bickering doctors, the attraction between Connie and Tristan becomes increasingly intense, passionate and out of control, even as their daily dosage of the drug gets stronger. Is this a chemical romance – a side effect of the drug? Or is it “the real thing”? A brilliant examination of the human brain via the 

The Effect (2016)

The LKY Musical&nbsp;tells the dramatic story of Singapore’s first Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew. It follows his life from his pre-war days as an idealist student through his transformation into a powerful political leader fighting for Singapore’s independence. Beginning with the challenge of surviving the Japanese Occupation through his years as a Cambridge student, his return to Singapore as a young lawyer, the formation of the PAP, and the political struggle with the communists. &nbsp;It ends with the

The LKY Musical (2015)

Billy has always felt like an outsider within his own family. Billy, you see, is deaf. He is also the only one who actually listens in his hopelessly dysfunctional, hilariously eccentric, fiercely argumentative tribe of bohemian weirdos.

Dad is an intellectual who behaves like a first-class idiot;

Mum is a mystery novelist who can’t solve the mystery of her own family;

Sis is a world-class opera singer in a downtown pub;

Big Brother is writing a thesis on speech while hearing voices inside his h

Tribes (2015)

Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay

“What’s the worst thing you can do to a man? It is not to fight him, to break him, to defeat him…."

Born into an upper middle class family, John Au Yong’s pleasures in life are sex and money. However, he begins to reflect about things that are really important in life when he meets his old college sweetheart, Anna. The impending meeting triggers memories of his past loves and losses, his boxed-in teenage years in Singapore, and his liberating experience in New York, which unlocks an unrestrained monologu

The Weight of Silk on Skin (2015)

Performer

Pulitzer Prize Winner Annie Baker has crafted a hilarious comedy that presents a gleefully voyeuristic peek at actors’ behind-the-scenes shenanigans, revealing their weird and wonderful idiocies and idiosyncrasies.

Vivacious Theresa, shy Shultz, angsty Lauren, and gregarious James: four imperfect strangers join an Acting Class run by “Earth Mother” Marty, each one hoping to start the year with a brand new chapter in their lives. But it soon becomes clear that this is much more than an Acting Class, as th

Circle Mirror Transformation (2015)

One sunny morning, 10-year-old Rhona goes missing.

Her mother Nancy (Karen Tan), retreats into a state of frozen hope for the next twenty years. Does “closure” mean forgiveness? Or revenge?

Agnetha (Janice Koh) is a pioneering psychiatrist with a controversial theory on serial killers. Does she really believe what she preaches, even as she fights her own demons?

And then there’s Ralph (Adrian Pang), a loner with a fractured history and a deadly obsession… Is he a monster? Or a misunderstood man-chi

Frozen (2014)

The Rise &amp; Fall of Little Voice&nbsp;tells the story of a shy, reclusive girl named LV – or Little Voice (played by the extraordinary Mina Kaye) – and her larger than life, boozy, out-of-control mother Mari (Denise Tan). Desperately missing her dead father, LV spends her time locked in her bedroom listening to his old record collection and perfecting astonishing impersonations of famous divas including Shirley Bassey, Marilyn Monroe, Barbra Streisand, Edith Piaf, and Judy Garland…

When Mari starts da

The Rise & Fall of Little Voice (2014)

Adaptation

Cow. Slob. Pig. How many insults can you hear before you have to stand up and defend the woman you love?

Winner of the Outer Critics Circle Award for ‘Outstanding Off-Broadway Play’, and nominated for the Olivier Award for ‘Best New Comedy’, FAT PIG tells the story of Tom (Gavin Yap), a handsome, young professional who meets a sweet-natured, sexy, funny and intelligent girl named Helen (Frances Lee) – who just happens to be “plus-sized”. Tom finds himself irresistibly attracted to Helen and her refreshin

Fat Pig (2014)

In Pangdemonium’s Gruesome Playground Injuries, Pulitzer Prize finalist Rajiv Joseph has crafted “a perfect dissection of contemporary love-lost relationships.” (Idaho Statesman), and one of the most startlingly original and screwed-up love stories of modern times.

We follow Kayleen (Seong Hui Xuan - Rabbit Hole) and Doug (Alan Wong - The MTV Show) from age 8 to 38, leaping back and forth over the course of their lives in a deliriously disjointed time-continuum. Doug is full of life and absurdly “acciden

Gruesome Playground Injuries (2013)

NEXT TO NORMAL tells the extraordinary roller-coaster story of Diana (West End star Sally Ann Triplett - Chicago, Cabaret, Mama Mia! Among dozens of other shows), a woman battling bipolar disorder coupled with schizophrenic hallucinations; and her hapless husband Dan (Adrian Pang - Pangdemonium’s Rabbit Hole, Swimming With Sharks), who fights to keep her mind stable and his family intact. Things get even more complicated when Diana defies her Doctor (Juan Jackson - Cats, The Rocky Horror Show), and resorts 

Next to Normal (2013)

Pangdemonium - producers of the acclaimed Spring Awakening and the hit Swimming With Sharks - brings you the Singapore premiere of the Pulitzer Prize winning RABBIT HOLE, a poignant, powerful and surprisingly humorous portrait of a family searching for what remains possible in the most impossible of situations.

Becca (Janice Koh) and Howie (Adrian Pang) are struggling to recover from a shocking accident. Caught in a maze of memory, longing, guilt, blame, sarcasm and tightly controlled rage, Howie lashes 

Rabbit Hole (2013)

Dream Academy

Crazy Christmas is an annual MUST-SEE! Catch this year’s star studded cast with a great big band and a bevy of dancing gals we like to call the Merry Miss-el’toes. Crazy Christmas gets bigger, better and brighter every year as Singapore’s finest entertainers together with the likes of Marilyn Monroe, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Audrey Hepburn and good ole’ Charlie Chaplin bring you song, dance, laughter and love. This year, we celebrate movie magic as the Silver Screen meets Silver Bells! Apart from our favou

Crazy Christmas (2012)

Winner of both the Tony and Laurence Olivier Award for 'Best Play' - God of Carnage reunites the powerhouse acting duo Lea Salonga (Tony and Olivier Award-winner, Miss Saigon) and Adrian Pang (Best Actor, ST Life! Theatre Awards) in a fast paced comedic satire described as a "comedy of manners... without the manners."

God of Carnage is a viciously funny and biting comedy that takes place in the aftermath of a playground fight between two schoolboys. Their parents decide to meet to "talk" it out. What sta

God of Carnage (2012)

HOLLYWOOD.

A megalomaniac movie mogul [Adrian Pang] with a murky past, a bite that’s even worse than his bark, and whose motto is “live and let die”.

A struggling film producer [Janice Koh] with clear ambitions and a shady agenda: damsel in distress? Or manipulative, man-eating femme fatale?

A fish-out-of-water wannabe screenwriter [George Young], idealistic and hungry enough to do anything to make his way up the corporate food chain.

With the hottest screenplay in town up for grabs, the line be

Swimming With Sharks (2012)

Orsino, the Duke of Illyria, pines for the love of Lady Olivia. Lady Olivia, however, is in mourning for her dead brother and refuses to entertain any proposals of marriage.

Meanwhile, a storm brews across the coast, causing a terrible shipwreck. A young, aristocratic-born woman named Viola is swept onto the Illyrian shore. Alone in a strange land, she assumes that her twin brother, Sebastian, has been drowned in the wreck. She decides to try and look for work that she can do to get by. A sea captain tel

Twelfth Night (2012)

SPRING AWAKENING is the explosive, electrifying and exhilarating musical that breaks all the rules of musical theatre. Full of heart, humanity and humour, it tells the tale of a group of teenagers embarking on a turbulent journey of self-discovery, each one experiencing a dramatic psychological/emotional/spiritual/sexual awakening: Meet The Misfit, The Idealist, The Innocent, The Rebel, The Mama’s Boy, The Runaway, The Abused… and for these youths growing up in 1892, the only means of expressing their emoti

Spring Awakening (2012)

A motley crew of men come together to laugh about life, argue about women, and fight about everything else. Their comic high-jinks lead to a game of poker… except that these men, poker is never just a game: for Stephen [Adrian Pang] poker is an obsessive power trip; for Sweeney [Daniel Jenkins] it’s a distraction from his domestic dilemmas; for Frankie [Keagan Kang] it’s an extension of his manhood; for Carl [Julian Low] it’s a hopeless addiction; for Mugsy [Andy Tear] it’s an escape from his loser’s life; 

Dealer's Choice (2011) 

War rages throughout the country. A wounded sergeant informs King Duncan that his army, led by Macbeth and Banquo, managed to defeat the rebel forces led by the traitorous Thane of Cawdor. As Macbeth and Banquo return from battle, they meet three witches who predict Macbeth will become the Thane of Cawdor and King of Scotland, but that it will be Banquo's children who will rule the country for many generations. Immediately afterwards, Ross arrives with a message for Macbeth has inherited the title. Macbeth 

Macbeth (2011)

Anyone who has loved with an obsession, anyone who has experienced jealousy and betrayal, and anyone who understands that passion can manifest itself in pure ecstasy or the deepest despair, will relish this play's deliciously dark humour, and be moved by its uncompromising honesty, Closer&nbsp;is a bold and unflinching examination of everything that makes us all so fragile, so flawed, and so human.


Closer (2011)

Artistic Director

It's a bachelor's dream come true: three beautiful air stewardesses, each taking her turn as a girlfriend, each happily unaware of the others' existence. Impossible? Then come and see how Bernard, our modern-day Casanova, does it. And find out just how long, really, he can keep it all up...

Celebrating 10 W!LD YEARS,&nbsp;BOEING BOEING, W!LD RICE'S phenomenally successful smash-hit comedy returns! Directed by the inimitable Glen Goei, with a First Class cast led by Adrian Pang, a spanking new set and rav

Boeing Boeing (2010)

In recession-hit Buffalo, New York, best friends Jerry and Dave are among hundreds of unemployed steel workers. Desperate to earn some money to pay for his child support obligations, Jerry finds unlikely inspiration in the form of a touring troupe of Chippendales, and decides to form his very own STRIP ACT.

He assembles a motley crew and declared that they are even better than the Chippendales because his gang will go “all the way”…. But when it’s showtime, will the boys overcome their inner demons and p

The Full Monty (2010)

Don Pedro has just returned victorious from battle. Leonato, Governor of Messina, invites him and his sailors to his lavish home for a month of rest and relaxation. With the party come two dashing young officers, Benedick and Claudio.

Leonato's niece, Beatrice and Benedick, longtime adversaries pick up where they left off and attach each other with their vicious wits. Claudio falls instantly in love with Leonato's daughter, Hero.

Benedick, a confirmed bachelor, tries to dissuade Claudio from marriage,

Much Ado About Nothing (2009)

Katurian, a writer of 400 terrifying short stories, has been newly imprisoned in a nameless totalitarian country. Katurian is questioned by Tupolski and Ariel, who scale new heights of brutality - and black humour - with their version of the good cop/bad cop mind game. Along the way, the reasons for the storyteller's capture are revealed in a viciously entertaining cat-and-mouse game that has you on the edge of your seat.


The Pillowman (2008)

First staged in London and New York three years ago, this critically acclaimed play makes an exciting debut in Singapore under the direction of Tracie Pang ('Best Director' nominee - Life! Theatre Awards 2007) and stars a compelling cast of actors - Michael Corbidge ('Best Actor' nominee - Life! Theatre Awards 2007), Adrian Pang ('Best Actor' - Life! Theatre Awards 2007) and Dan Jenkins ('Best Supporting Actor' - Life! Theatre Awards 2007).

The Pillowman, written by celebrated Irish dramatist Martin McDo

The Pillowman (2007)

It is 1942, World War II. Bombs are raining down from the sky and the lights are going out all over the city. But for Sir, the ageing actor-manager of a struggling Skaespearean theatre group, the show must go on. Despite suffering from burn out and sheer exhaustion, he is adamant on staging the 227th performance of King Lear.

As Sir's rollercoaster emotions reduce him from a haughty thespian to a quivering wreck, it is up to loyal dresser Norman to hold it all together. Devoted for the past 16 years to t

The Dresser (2006)

1917 - A baby is abandoned on the steps of Singapore's famous Raffles Hotel. A childless English couple find the crying child and adopt her. They sail back to England with the child in their arms.

1937 - Twenty years have passed. The house of Lim Chin Boon is in turmoil; the Master of the house is dying and has just received a letter from a young lady who could very well be the long-lost granddaughter from his first marriage. Emma West returns to Singapore to look for her family, only to find herself thr

A Twist of Fate (2005)

Newly-divorced Oscar Madison, a beer-guzzling, poker-playing sports reporter with limited house-keeping skills, invites his friend Felix Ungar to stay. There's only one hitch: Felix is a compulsively tidy hypochondriac, whose neurotic ways have found free reign after his wife unexpected throws him out.


The Odd Couple (2004)

Paul, a young, aspiring and at times, stuffy lawyer returns from his honeymoon to find that his quirky bride Corrie, had chosen a tiny over-priced tiny apartment up a wheezing six flights of stairs. it comes complete with a leaking skylight, no heat and a neighbour who regularly wanders through to reach his padlocked loft on the roof. In addition to this an uptight mother-in-law who doesn't approve of anything and you have a situation that is enough to test the patience of any young man.


Barefoot in the Park (2001)

Vernon is a successful but harassed composer in need of a lyricist. He's paired up with Sonia, a wacky, neurotic wordsmith whose love life has just taken a nose dive. Their relationship is anything but harmonious - but together they do make beautiful music!


They're Playing Our Song (1999)

The plays of William Shakespeare seem to be enjoying a revival of sorts. A spate of movies and theatre productions are going all out to bring his works to the modern audience, convincing them that the Bard isn't just grandiose, archaic literature for intellectuals and students.

With these new adaptations come interesting features such as Romeo and Juliet and Richard III in new historical contexts or Othello with an extra dose of sexual tension. As for the Singapore Repertory Theatre's recent version of H

Hamlet (1997)

You're invited to the Wingfield residence.

A dingy flat in the slums of Saint Louis in the years prior to World War Two. Inside, cheap furniture, an old typewriter, a picture of a father who deserted his family long ago, and a shelf full of tiny glass animals. Outside, the noisy street, the flashing lights of a dance hall, the cities and vast spaces beyond. The only way in is by the fire escape. It is also the only way out.

As their hopes and dreams slowly dissolve in the sea of despair and monotony t

The Glass Menagerie (1996)

The Perfect Servants
The Perfect Servants&nbsp;Miyako, now Kyoto, during the late Heian period at the end of the 12th century. The house of the lady is at one side of the stage and the house of the lord&nbsp;at the other. Two servants set Lord Ichimotsu and Lady Chibusa up on a date. When they are too lazy to go, the maid and valet disguise themselves as the lord and lady and meet instead.

The Magic Fundoshi
The Magic Fundoshi&nbsp;takes place in&nbsp;Naniwa, now Osaka, during the late Muromachi period

The Magic Fundoshi (1996)

When flower shop clerk Seymour Krelborn stumbles upon a "strange and interesting" plant during a solar eclipse, his life is changed forever. The plant brings him wealth, fame and love – everything, in fact, that he ever dreamed of. But the price Seymour must pay for his good fortune may just be more than he bargained for. It turns out that the plant needs human blood to survive, and Seymour is faced with a dilemma. Does he kill to feed the plant, and prosper, or does he let the plant die, and return to his 

Little Shop of Horrors: The Musical (1995)

The Magic Fundoshi&nbsp;is a trilogy of three plays performed in the Kyogen tradition. There are no masks, no elaborate sets or costumes and no specialized make-up -&nbsp;the appeal of Kyogen theatre lies in its utter simplicity; the capability to portray human beings at their best and their worst in the most hilarious way.

The Perfect Servants
At Miyako, now Kyoto, during the late Heian period at the end of the twelfth century. The house of the lady is at one side of the stage and the house of the lord

The Magic Fundoshi (1994)

Do you remember the fairy tales you were told as children? Do you recall Little Red Riding Hood meeting the Big Bad Wolf in the woods on her way to her grandmother's house? Or Jack getting 5 beans in exchange for his cow from someone he meets in the woods? What about Rapunzel, combing her long silken tresses in her tower in the woods? Or Cinderella, traveling through the woods to get to the prince's ball?

There is one element that these and many other fairy tales have in common, that is the woods. In eac

Into the Woods (1994)

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