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The Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Center is Now Hosting COMMUNE FOR ARTS


by Stephi Wild - October 26, 2021

The Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Center is now presenting Commune for Arts, through December. Commune for Arts integrates creative arts into mental health care while providing a supportive environment to bring communities together....

VIDEO: Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Center Presents VOICE STARS: KONSERT 1


by Stephi Wild - October 13, 2021

The Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Center recently presented the first concert in its VOICE STARS series. This concert featured the 15 contestants who are disabled of different categories from Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei,  battling for the first time. ...

VIDEO: Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Center Previews VOICE STARS


by Stephi Wild - October 05, 2021

VOICE STARS is the first online reality show and international singing competition for the disabled, lead by a team of blind youths, organised by the Youth Development Committee of the Society of the Blind in Malaysia (YDCSBM), supported by The Actors Studio & The Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre...

JOM SEMBANG WITH JOE! Will Stream Next Week


by Stephi Wild - August 22, 2021

Joe was feeling left out after Faridah had her session. So, it’s Joe’s turn this month! What does this orang putih know about living in Malaysia? Join our Merdeka edition of “Jom Sembang on with Joe” on 28 Aug, 10am to find out. ...

S.O.S! Merging Psychological and Dramatic Techniques To Manage Mental Health Issues Will Be Hosted by The Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre


by Stephi Wild - August 15, 2021

Whether you are an educator, or a parent, caring for your young one’s mental health can be challenging. Faced with isolation during the pandemic, the importance of mental health is now more important than ever. This workshop jointly conducted by our experienced and qualified academics, Ms. Pang Chia...

INNER THOUGHTS Will Be Presenting at KLPAC This May


by Stephi Wild - April 11, 2021

Inner Thoughts will be presented at the  The Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre (klpac) May 6-9, 2021....

Past Shows

The Dead Bird
The Dead Bird
12/14 - 12/15/2018


The Dead Bird is a full-length dance performance adopting the structure and the existence of the four birds from "The Universal Tree and the Four ...

CRE
CRE
11/30 - 12/2/2018


CRE is a modern circus theatre extravaganza that takes you to another world where otherworldly creatures of different elements will enchant and excite the entire ...

Heart of Love


Shambala Kidz Leadership Preschool (SKLPS) is a kindergarten with core concept of training leadership quality of children, as Malaysia’s first high-end kids leadership kindergarten, it ...

Madama Butterfly
Madama Butterfly
11/22 - 11/25/2018


Madama Butterfly is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. The opera is set ...

PLAY! The Actors Studio Academy @ klpac Speech and Drama 2018 Graduation Showcase


The Actors Studio Academy @ klpac is proud to present PLAY! The Actors Studio Academy @ klpac Speech and Drama 2018 Graduation Showcase. This year, ...

MCE International Choral Festival 2018


UiTM Faculty of Music in collaboration with The Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre (klpac) are delighted to present the 9th Malaysian Composers Concert Series 2018. ...

Short & Sweet Malaysia 2018
Short & Sweet Malaysia 2018
9/7 - 11/4/2018


Celebrating 11 years with a NEW category Short+Sweet FILM! With festivals in 14 countries, there is no stopping the SHORT+SWEET mania. Malaysia is no exception ...

Malam Sayu Berpuisi


No microphones. No speakers. No cables. Malam Sayu Berpuisi is raw and wild just like the night. Held outdoors in the nights under a banyan ...

Musical MAD-ley!
Musical MAD-ley!
11/15 - 11/16/2014


End the year with a MUSICAL EXTRAVAGANZA featuring the talented kids of The Actors Studio Academy! Come on a crazy musical ride with the Actors ...

Faith Healer
Faith Healer
11/6 - 11/9/2014


The Actors Studio presents Brian Friel’s Faith Healer. Faith Healer is a play told in four parts by three individuals; the eponymous hero whose name ...

Paul Loosley’s Broadway On Film 2


Last year’s highly successful ‘Broadway on Film’ series seemed to have tapped into folks’ genuine love of film musicals; so much so that Paul Loosley ...

Ancient Inscription
Ancient Inscription
10/23 - 11/2/2014


Inspired by the oldest Chinese writing, the Oracle, ANCIENT INSCRIPTIONS transforms calligraphy into body movements, representing the spirit behind the evolution of Chinese writing. A ...

Short+Sweet Malaysia 2014 Festival


SHORT+SWEET Malaysia begins with a 10-minute theatre festival in 2008 and a dance segment was added in 2009 much to the delight of the local ...

World’s Best Movies - Music & Musicals


The World’s Best Movies screening is back again! Marathon A young man with autism, named Cho-Won, finds release only in running. As a child, Cho-Won ...

Asrama-Ra All Stars
Asrama-Ra All Stars
10/16 - 10/19/2014


Asrama-RA AllStars mengisahkan tentang sekumpulan pelajar sekolah yang sedang menjalani kem kepimpinan di asrama sekolah mereka sendiri, sambil diiringi oleh Cikgu Sabariah dan juga Cikgu ...

Larger Than Life
Larger Than Life
9/27 - 10/12/2014


LARGER THAN LIFE is a colourful journey through the annals of music theatre. Staged in glittering details, this spectacle of story-telling in music, in lyrics, ...

The Platform


An open mic night but for theatre. Each session is a series of 4 - 6 plays of 5 - 15 min in length followed ...

The Day I Met The Prince
The Day I Met The Prince
9/26 - 9/28/2014


Written by a Singapore scriptwriter Kuo Pao Kun, based on the French masterpiece Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. A kid meets a prince ...

Hidup Ini Senget
Hidup Ini Senget
7/31 - 8/3/2014


First appeared in the Short & Sweet 2013; it is a stunning performance that combines the art disciplines of the percussion together with theatre and ...

Inter God Dialog
Inter God Dialog
7/12 - 7/13/2014


As we humans extend our hands of friendship to members of other faiths, crisis churn among gods. Some of them lament the fact that they ...

Navarasa by Swaraa
Navarasa by Swaraa
7/12 - 7/13/2014


A truly unique east-meets-west musical experience when the Indian classical and semi classical music is given a touch of Western elements. Performed by a band ...

Ballet Illumination
Ballet Illumination
5/9 - 5/11/2014


Experience a medley of diverse and exquisite ballets by award-winning choreographers at Singapore Dance Theatre’s Ballet Illuminations tour this May! SDT will perform in Kuala ...

Mission Possible: The Last Cendol


MISSION POSSIBLE: The Last Cendol is about three senior citizens – Chan, Mat and Sugi who spend their boring lives in an old folk home ...

Dancing the Malaysian
Dancing the Malaysian
10/24 - 10/27/2013


Watch Malaysian culture and social norms interpreted in dance form. KIV returns for its fourth year with the theme “Dancing the Malaysian” in conjunction with ...

LAFAZ GEMA
LAFAZ GEMA
9/20 - 9/22/2013


Poetry immerses the heart of hearts, feeling of feelings Reflecting the world’s perspective of the poet. Poetry recites touching words, Among audiences, readers and reciters. ...

Romeo & Juliet
9/12 - 9/15/2013


The Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre Theatre For Young People Programme (T4YP) proudly presents Shakespeare’s most popular tragedy, “Romeo and Juliet“. The story revolves around ...

Eugene Ionesco’s MACBETT
Eugene Ionesco’s MACBETT
8/14 - 8/18/2013


MACBETT explores the irony of ambition through an epic, phantasmagorical dream-turned-nightmare. We invite you to this seismic, scary, seductive, symbolic and scandalous experience. After crushing ...

Our Sister’s Son
Our Sister’s Son
8/1 - 8/4/2013


Don’t we all have a relative who is a bit different? They could even be a brother, son or daughter… Our Sister’s Son is the ...

Outcast Dance Studio Presents: 2013 Student Recital


Outcast Dance Studio presents their annual student recital, headed by power house dance couple Gavin Chan and Sally Oh. Join them for an afternoon of ...

Boeing! Boeing!
Boeing! Boeing!
7/25 - 7/28/2013


The Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre Theatre For Young People Programme (T4YP) proudly presents Boeing! Boeing!. Playboy Bernard juggles three fiancees, all flight attendants, with ...

“God” Was One Of Us
7/18 - 7/21/2013


Who or what is “God” to us? Can we truly perceive the existence of something greater than ourselves? Join the T4YP Ensemble as they explore ...

Vignettes
7/18 - 7/21/2013


Physical theatre and humanity collide in this array of vignettes that spotlight the things we do to get what we want and need as human ...

What If “God” Was One Of Us


Who or what is “God” to us? Can we truly perceive the existence of something greater than ourselves? Join the T4YP Ensemble as they explore ...

BUMIPUTERA! Anak Lucky Lucky
7/12 - 7/14/2013


“You can become a Malay even if you are a Mat Salleh. Because MALAYSIA BOLEH!” MAHATHIR (not our former PM), an Indian Muslim, becomes a ...

Postcards From Rosa
7/11 - 7/14/2013


The Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre is proud to present the Malaysian premiere of Postcards from Rosa by award-winning playwright Desmond Sim from Singapore. A ...

Rashomon
Rashomon
7/12 - 7/14/2013


The coming together of three visionaries, each considered to be the best in their field, promises to bring this masterpiece to new dramatic heights. Director ...

Double Punctum
Double Punctum
6/20 - 6/23/2013


When photography encounters performing art, there is a meeting point of the crossing punctums. Pam Lim, William Mok together with director Loh Kok Man and ...

THE MOON SPEAKS FOR MY HEART
THE MOON SPEAKS FOR MY HEART
6/14 - 6/23/2013


THE MOON SPEAKS FOR MY HEART Teresa Teng – Her Life, Her Love, Her Songs Savour the sweet music and songs in this concert tribute ...

Borak Arts Series – Breaking Boundaries


With Malaysia’s arts scene at its infancy stage, how do arts organizations and their leaders grow and sustain themselves? Is there an arts eco-system to ...

IN A NUTSHELL
6/7 - 6/15/2013


Malays are lazy? Chinese are greedy? Indians are noisy? If we fail to function as a developed nation, who do we blame – the lazy, ...

BUNRAKU-Traditional Japanese Puppet Theatre


Witness the grace and grandeur of a 400 year old Japanese tradition, performed for the first time ever in South East Asia. BUNRAKU- Traditional Japanese ...

Our Man In Beijing
Our Man In Beijing
6/7 - 6/9/2013


“Our Man in Beijing” is a comedy about an Australian junior manager (John Williams) sent to Beijing to get a contract settled with a Chinese ...

3 CONDUCTERS, AN UNCOMMON JOURNEY


Mr. Joost Flach (Co-Principal oboist of MPO), Mr. Martin Rutherford (Music Director of Penang Philharmonic Chorus) and Ms. Cheryl Mah (Music Director of klpac SB) ...

Child Aid Asia @ KL 2013
Child Aid Asia @ KL 2013
5/31 - 6/2/2013


Should being poor prevent children from growing to their full creative potential? The Child Aid Malaysia Committee & The Actors Studio present a fund raising ...

Broken Bridges The Musical
5/16 - 5/26/2013


The Actors Studio Seni Teater Rakyat proudly presents Broken Bridges The Musical. Set in good ol’ Ipoh, Broken Bridges spans three decades from the 1950s ...

Ugly People
5/23 - 5/26/2013


The T4YP Ensemble opens SEASON 2013 with their take on the unsavory side of human behavior in the distinctly Malaysian writing of klpac’s Co-Associate Artistic ...

The Producers
4/26 - 5/11/2013


PAN Productions returns with the Mel Brooks’ smash hit musical, The Producers. Based on the 1968 film of the same name, the show follows the ...


The story begins at a fantasy world, Cisum, which comprises eight musical kingdoms that are perpetually protected by different music fairies. Here, unceasing indulgence in ...

Laugh Chinese Style
4/18 - 4/21/2013


Ugly People is a collection of short comedic skits revolving around the everyday Malaysian life. It features top theatre actors including The Joker Trio – ...

The Merry Wives of Windsor
4/17 - 4/21/2013


The Merry Wives of Windsor is a lesser-known Shakespeare comedy. It is raucous, farcical, and full of down-to-earth fun. Perhaps that’s why it seldom makes ...


The first part is a revisiting of favourites drawn from the past first three series of ‘Shakespeare on Film’ . A chance for folks who ...

A Christmas Carol
2/28 - 3/3/2013


Ebener Scrooge may be the greediest man in England. He has no charity or sympathy for anyone and takes great joy in avoiding social engagements. ...

Ruby Moon
2/28 - 2/3/2013


Life appears to be picture perfect in Flaming Tree Grove. At least until 6-year old Ruby Moon sets off to visit her grandmother and is ...


The Town of Noxville is the place where the dead lives (or dies) in joy and happiness. When newcomer Tommy arrives and plans on getting ...


Two men are forced to share a cell in a South American jail. One, Molina, is a romantic fantasist condemned for his sexuality. The other, ...

To Potong or Not To Potong
12/8 - 12/9/2012


Brian, a Chinese guy, is madly in love with a Liza, a Malay girl. So, he consults his two friends, one a Hindu, Mani and ...

Malaysia Composer Series 2012
11/26 - 12/2/2012


The Faculty of Music UiTM and The Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre Presents: Malaysia Composer Series 2012. This is the 3rd concert series for Faculty ...


Jake was born in the small kampong of Setapak in KL, the 2nd youngest of 10 children. From his youngest days he recalls staring intently, ...

TAKUT TAK
11/21 - 11/25/2012


Takut Tak? is a Rounded Note production in collaboration with the klpac. Founded by Jude James and Kamahlaan “Kam” Thiagarajan, a sound designer, it was ...


The Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre is proud to present klpac Orchestra’s Winter Concert 2012. Listen to the rhythm of November Rain with the klpac ...

Nadirah
11/1 - 11/11/2012


Nadirah is the popular and articulate Vice-President of her university’s Muslim Society. She convenes inter-faith meetings where students talk about how they should respect one ...

THE NEXT
11/1 - 11/11/2012


Xixi is a cute and clever little peacock. Xixi’s parents are always out station and rarely accompany her. Xixi used to keep her feelings in ...


The Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre proudly presents Halloween Concert with the klpac Junior String Ensemble. The klpac Junior String Ensemble will chill and thrill ...

PARAH
PARAH
3/1 - 2/5/2012


Who are the indigenes and who are the immigrants? Is there a grain of truth in even the most repellent stereotype? What power does a ...

Shades of NAKKEERAN Concert


Catch Nakkeeran, live in concert for the first time in Malaysia since his debut album ‘Shades of NAKKEERAN’ was globally released in 2011. Catch his ...

At A Plank Bridge
At A Plank Bridge
1/17 - 1/21/2012


AT A PLANK BRIDGE tells the story of two men during World War II, who meet accidentally on a back country road in Malaya 1945, ...

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