The Works

As kids many of us had toy musical instruments: toy pianos maybe, or drums, guitars, organs or trumpets. Plenty of classical musicians started on the real instrument at four or five. But one Hong Kong musician still likes to make serious music, but wit...

Comedian Patrice Thibaud and musician Philippe Leygnac met in 2003. They created their mime show “Cocorico” for the Th

In the first “Fast and Furious”, blond blue-eyed undercover cop Brian O’Conner (played by Paul Walker) infiltrated the multi-ethnic world of street racing and car stealing. He was supposed to be apprehending Dominic Toretto (played by Vin Diesel) but w...

Two weeks ago the doyen of clarinettists Richard Stoltzman joined us on The Works. He was in Hong Kong for a project called “The Intimacy of Creativity”. It included six emerging composers, a Grammy award winner, a Pulitzer Prize winning composer and a...

For more than 16 years, Riverdance has been celebrating Irish music, song and dance. Since it first appeared in 1994, it has thrilled more than 22 million people in over 350 venues in 40 countries and across 4 continents. And that doesn’t even count al...

Avid fans of the comic book “Thor” have been watching the production of the movie every step of the way, eagerly mopping up titbits of information from the location. Many were not happy when Kenneth Branagh was chosen to direct. They also groaned when ...

As some people say: “Hong Kong will be a nice place if they ever get it finished.” We’re always tearing down old buildings and putting up newer and taller ones. It seems like we, or at least our property developers and government, don’t much care about...

In our studio performance, Tina Karen Lo and Joanna Li bring together the piano and the guitar. They’ll be giving us a preview of their upcoming concert on 4th May which includes works by Diabelli, Giuliani, and Ponce, as well as an adaptation of the B...

Gavin Au is a Hong Kong-based artist. In his first solo exhibition “Still sitting on the wall” he’s reflecting on recent events in mainland China and Hong Kong.He sees the exhibition as, in part, a dialogue with a series of photographs by Chinese photo...

Neil Burger's "Limitless" is about a drug that can make you smart, give you the ability to use 100% of your brain instead of the 20% or so we supposedly normally use. Eddie Morry (Bradley Cooper) plays a writer who knows he has a great novel inside him...