Reviews of current and coming shows and events in Penang.
Oktoberfest, Friday 25th and Saturday 26th October 2019
October in Penang means it is time for Oktoberfest! For more than 40 years the Malaysian German Society (MGS) in Penang has held a true Munich-style Oktoberfest, and it is now a cultural highlight of the Penang calendar. Year after year it has become so popular that...
Story of Tolol, October 10th-13th 2019
penangpac has taken on the worthy and admirable mission of bringing English translations of successful Malay-language plays to Penang. The thought behind it is to try to attract a wide audience of theatre lovers from every background to join together and experience...
Iolanthe, September 20th & 21st 2019
Iolanthe is one of fourteen Gilbert & Sullivan comic operas that the pair wrote in the late 19th century. Gilbert wrote the words, and created the fanciful, upside-down, absurd worlds that create the, often satirical, comedy of the story, and Sullivan composed the...
Cresting the Waves, Until October 6th 2019
The exhibition opening and book launch for Singaporean contemporary artist Goh Beng Kwan was held at Daiichi Art Space last weekend. For a first-time visitor, Daiichi Art Space is a pretty and atmospheric venue, with a fine-dining French restaurant on its ground...
Ballet Illuminations, September 13th-15th 2019
The Singapore Dance Theatre (SDT) is coming back to Penang for the fifth time to present Ballet Illuminations at penangpac this month. SDT was founded back in 1988 and began with just seven dancers, but now boasts thirty-two company members plus apprentices and...
Jazz Showcase #3, September 14th & 15th 2019
Good news: the third instalment of Jazz Showcase is set to return to Penang on 14th and 15th September 2019 at penangpac. This edition will see the unprecedented collaboration of Malaysia’s leading jazz band, The WVC Malaysian Jazz Ensemble, and the local Big Band of...
Reformation, Saturday August 24th 2019
Globally-acclaimed pianist Stephen Hough is in Penang this weekend to play with the Penang Philharmonic Orchestra. Hough will be performing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor. It is a dramatic, dark composition which Beethoven wrote during the period when he...
Space Junk, Until September 17th 2019
Two years ago, on the 17th August 2017, two friends came together to collaborate for an exhibition at Luna Bar Café. These two friends, Hao and Wei Ming, have now come together again to create a new exhibition, which opened on 17th August 2019, in Ome by Spacebar...
The Lure of the Orient: A Cabinet of Curiosities at China House, until September 30th
Not just home to a profusion of cakes, ChinaHouse is currently also home to a profusion of antiques. Nestled above the café is an Aladdin’s cave of relics crammed into the small corridors of the traditional townhouse. Here there are 1000+ antiques, to be exact. This...