Front Row

A group of artists coming together for the first time to organize an exhibition. In the process they learn how creation can pivot from one foot to the other. Originally conceived as an
exhibition of drawings it evolved into something more encompassing.

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A new theatre company is born. Theatrethreesixty. Throughout April, it is presenting a month-long series of performances.These will feature six stories about appropriating the past for the sake of surviving today, in hope for a brighter tomorrow. Echoes of the artisitic director's own journey in the creative arts?

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Why awards for the local performing arts scene are important, not just recognition for starving artists but also encouragement and impetus to engender development and growth of the industry.

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Five Arts Centre celebrates their 30th anniversary with a series of look-back performances, including a reprisal of their two minute solo shows called '2 Minute Solos: Art Meets Politics'. Lim Soon Heng speaks to Mark Teh of Five Arts Centre to find out more about this unique brand of environmental theatre.

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The third curated installation by a group that has created a platform for emerging designers, craftsmen and other creatives. Themed "Intimate Design Showcase & Market", this one-day event seeks not only to connect the creators and designers together but to engage the public.

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First-time director, Seshadri Kalimuthu, brings to our local stage a work by Japanese playwright, Koji Hasegawa. It presents the conversation between a teacher and a Yakuza. The Yakuza’s son has been missing from school and the teacher, Shin Ishioka – played by Japanese actor and educator–Doppo Narita, has been contacting the Yakuza and father of Hiroshi, Yuichi Nosaka.

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A painting by Indonesian artist Lee Man Fong, titled Bali Life in an auction last year fetched a record US$4.7 million. The most paid for a Southeast Asian work. What about this painting has made it so appealing and a compelling purchase? Southeast Asian works are drawing attention from investors and collectors, and perhaps the appeal is that these works are still affordable.

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Going backstage to talk to the writer, the production designer and musical director of the musical to find out how Sinbad the Sailor’s tales are being adapted for the musical stage. They give a sneak peek into the birth of this Australian-Malaysian production which will have its international premiere in Kuala Lumpur.

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Sharul is one of the headliners for the comedy show Super Kam and the League of Extraordinary Femmes 'The 2nd Kam-ming' and she joins us to discuss both her career in comedy and also what we can look forward to at the stand-up comedy show.

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Nigel Hurst is Gallery Director and Chief Executive of the Saatchi Gallery in London and he is in KL for the launch of the Malaysian Prudential Eye Exhibition that's happening this weekend. Shefah Szetu spoke to him over the phone.

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