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Latest episodes
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24 min
Missing From The Scene
What does it mean for something to be missing from the scene, and what can its absence tell us about the world we live in? In Missing From The Scene, artist Sharon Chin brings toge…
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21 min
Curtain Up! Celebrating 10 Years
The Philharmonic Winds of Malaysia is celebrating a decade of music with Curtain Up! Celebrating 10 Years, a concert featuring everything from the sweeping drama of The Phantom of…
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21 min
Turandot
A princess, a series of impossible riddles, a mysterious prince, murder, romance and some of the most spectacular music ever written for the stage. That's Turandot, Puccini's epic…
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19 min
Tribute to Brian Tan with The klpac Orchestra
Music has a way of keeping memories alive, and The klpac Orchestra is celebrating 20 years of making music with a special tribute to the man who started it all, the late Maestro Br…
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29 min
Brand New Day: A Symphonic Broadway Celebration
Some of musical theatre’s biggest hits, an all-star cast, eight dancers and a 73-piece orchestra. Brand New Day: A Symphonic Broadway Celebration brings the magic of Broadway to KL…
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18 min
Rocking for a Cause 2026
The Falcons, Sons of Adam, Freedom, The Strollers, Alleycats and Heavy Machine are just some of the names that feature in the history of Malaysian music. This October, their music…
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17 min
The Relationsh*t Chronicles
Ghosting, situationships, terrible first dates and the things we do for love. They’re all fair game in The Relationsh*t Chronicles, a comedy made up of nine stories inspired by rea…
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24 min
Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook: The Bouquet and the Wreath (Rebirth)
Contemporary Thai artist Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook has spent more than four decades exploring some very big questions through very ordinary things: flowers, beds, words, the human bo…
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20 min
Lisa Macuja Elizalde's Snow White
Lisa Macuja-Elizalde has spent decades on stage and behind the scenes, from an internationally celebrated ballet career to founding and leading Ballet Manila. We last spoke in 2024…
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25 min
Socrates in D# Minor
What do the Big Bang, evolution, alien life, death and the possibility of nothingness have to do with the human experience? Presented by EJKLS Seni, Socrates in D# Minor explores t…
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24 min
Kaleidoscope VIII: Infinite Beats
For its eighth edition, HANDS International Drumming Festival returns with Kaleidoscope VIII: Infinite Beats, bringing percussion artists from five countries together for a celebra…
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37 min
Vivaldi to Borneo: The MPO’s 2026 Season Ahead
Classical music can take you just about anywhere, from the sounds of frogs and crickets in the Baroque era, to the mystery of Vivaldi, the drama of Shakespearean ballet, and even t…
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30 min
Vivaldi to Borneo: The MPO’s 2026 Season Ahead
Classical music can take you just about anywhere, from the sounds of frogs and crickets in the Baroque era, to the mystery of Vivaldi, the drama of Shakespearean ballet, and even t…
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20 min
3 Days In Chow Kit Road
What was Chow Kit Road like in the late 1970s? 3 Days in Chow Kit Road takes us into the bustling markets, colourful streets and neon-lit nightlife of one of Kuala Lumpur’s most ic…
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26 min
The Whale
What would you do if you had one last chance to make things right? That’s the question at the heart of The Whale, Samuel D. Hunter’s play about isolation, forgiveness and the compl…
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24 min
Brahms, Schumanns & Wolf
Four composers, a tangled web of friendship, admiration and influence, and some truly beautiful music. Brahms, Schumanns & Wolf, a new concert presented by The Poetics Collective u…
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27 min
Saffron Crossings
For three generations, the same ship carried members of one Malaysian family between South Asia and Malaysia. That ship was the SS Rajula, and for artist Rajinder Singh, it’s not j…
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23 min
Susan
Two dead husbands. A woman on trial. A question that refuses to go away: who exactly is Susan? A one-woman play that began as a 10-minute piece has now become a full-length product…
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26 min
The Secret Drawer
“When history happens, no-one is spared.” In The Secret Drawer, two women uncover the hidden histories of their fathers, men whose lives were shaped by theatre, social activism and…
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20 min
Todak◉Gundik
You may know the famous story of the swordfish that attacked Singapura. But in Todak◉Gundik, writer Kee Thuan Chye brings that legend together with the story of a Sultan’s favoured…