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Review: PINJAM DULU SERATUS: A Timely Glimpse Into The Dangers of Debt
by Rakaputra Paputungan - February 24, 2026
On December 20, 2025, Teater SOIA held their first standalone performance at Teater Kecil, Taman Ismail Marzuki. Titled PINJAM DULU SERATUS (“Lend Me A Hundred”), it’s an original play tackling online gambling and online lending services, prevalent problems in modern day Indonesia....
Review: Dreamlike Voyage, Troubled Undercurrents in MUSIKAL PERAHU KERTAS
by Rakaputra Paputungan - February 08, 2026
What did our critic think of MUSIKAL PERAHU KERTAS at CIPUTRA ARTPRENEUR?...
Review: The Long Unending Tale of IMC’s DRACULA: REQUIEM
by Rakaputra Paputungan - February 01, 2026
What did our critic think of DRACULA: REQUIEM at Indonesian Musical Company?...
Review: Teater Mantuli’s LENTERA HARAPAN is a Meaningful Production With Room to Grow
by Rakaputra Paputungan - January 27, 2026
On November 15th, 2025, the team from Broadway World Indonesia attended Teater Mantuli’s Lentera Harapan, the company’s third production, staged for its second show at Gedung Kesenian Jakarta. The show was directed by Khenny Gracia and produced by Robert Gunadi....
Review: JEMARI Touches Hearts, With and Without Words
by Rakaputra Paputungan - January 04, 2026
What did our critic think of JEMARI at FANTASI TULI?...
Review: FESTIVAL MUSIKAL INDONESIA 2025 and All 12 Shows
by Rakaputra Paputungan - December 27, 2025
What did our critic think of FESTIVAL MUSIKAL INDONESIA at EKI Foundation?...
Review: How Founding Fathers Found Love in MAHAR KEMERDEKAAN
by Rakaputra Paputungan - December 12, 2025
On August 24, the theater production company Broadwayang put on their latest production, Mahar Kemerdekaan (“The Dowry of Independence”) at Gedung Kesenian Jakarta. It’s based on the true story of Indonesia’s founding fathers and how their love lives intertwine with the struggle for independ...
Past Shows
Death and the Maiden
Jul 12 – Jul 13, 2013
Death and the Maiden tells the story of Paulina, who had been tortured and raped by soldiers of a military regime. Fifteen years later, after...
Phaedra's Love
Jul 5
Phaedra's Love involves six different characters. The two main characters are Phaedra and Hippolytus. Phaedra is a queen, married to Theseus, but she has not...
Endgame
Jun 28 – Jun 30, 2013
Endgame is a one-act play with four characters. It is a story of four people, each with their own oddity: Hamm and Clov, the servant,...
S. Teddy D. Exhibition Collecting Memories
Jun 1 – Jun 30, 2013
S. Teddy Darmawan is a visual artist who is never content with a single conventional medium. His works—swinging back and forth between two and three-dimensional—are...
Bila Malam Bertambah Malam (When Night Deepens)
Jun 21 – Jun 22, 2013
Bila Malam Bertambah Malam speaks of happy teenage love and of deeply buried old love, set against the background of caste differences in Bali. It...
Warm
Jun 14 – Jun 15, 2013
Dominated by body movements, Warm is a circus theater that is not just about pure acrobatics on stage, but also of ultra-bright lights and high-powered...
The Smell of the Soul
Jun 7 – Jun 8, 2013
The Smell of the Soul is an interactive and irreverently funny cabaret about death and chaos. Erasing the boundary between stage and audience, it invites...
On Sexuality and Women's Thoughts
May 28
How do women formulate themselves, and how are they formulated by men? This is a classic issue found throughout history. Philosophers and intellectuals, from Ancient...
Limousine Concert (France)
May 21
Limousine is an indie band from France, playing instrumental music to the tune of electronic pop-jazz. Through minimalist sounds, Limousine has created a calm and...
UPH Concert
May 18
How do music schools grow and develop in Indonesia? Our music schools are not limited to teaching Western (standard) classical music, but also teaching students...
Salihara International Performing Arts Exchange (SIPAX) 2013
May 6 – May 8, 2013
Dance, Discussion, Salihara Theater, Special Program, Theater The 2013 Salihara International Performance Arts Exchange (SIPAX) is an international event that brings together artists, performers, and...
Cultural Education, from theNational Movement Era to Today
May 7
Growth of a nation is determined by its education. Sriwijaya and Majapahit are known not only as centers of power, but also as centers for...
Kundalini of the Earth
Mar 2 – Apr 2, 2013
The paintings in this exhibition are composites of digitally printed images, satellite photographs, and participatory painting. On these canvases, we see faces of famous people:...
Post-colonialism & Historical Tourism in Poetry by Zeffry Alkatiri
Mar 26
How do we read history? Poet Zeffry Alkatiri chose poetry to help re-read history. He writes narrative poetry that chronicles history, relating to the presence...
Hanacaraka (There are Emissaries)
Mar 9
This dance piece is inspired by the Javanese alphabet, comprised of 20 letters: ha na ca ra ka / da ta sa wa la /...
Dance Performance by Andara Firman Moeis: Memo-Lusion
Nov 23 – Nov 24, 2012
How do memories play an influential role in human lives? Is the history of humankind not constructed from layers upon layers of past memories? These...
Iswargia Renardi Sudarno Piano Recital
Nov 10
In order to proficiently play various types of music by different composers and from different eras, one is required to have a high degree of...
Nicolas Stavy Piano Recital
Nov 4
Continuing the celebration of melayuonline 146 Claude Debussy, after Marie Vermeulin tour in January, Institut Français Indonesia (IFI) bring in Nicolas Stavy, piano soloists Competition,...
Awards Night The 2012 Ahmad Wahib Competition Awards Night
Nov 2
Ahmad Wahib is a controversial Indonesian Muslim scholar. His book, Pergolakan Pemikiran Islam: Catatan Harian Ahmad Wahib (1982, Islamic Intellectual Turbulence: the Diaries of Ahmad...
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