Set to move to Magok, western Seoul, in 2022, the LG Arts Center released the program for its last season in Gangnam, southern Seoul, Friday. The center’s annual program CoMPAS21 will feature more domestic acts, as visits by international artists and art troupes are limited by the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic. Performances by foreign productions are to be available through screenings. Theater di...

‘Wicked’ cast members open up about being part of the iconic musical

Programming spans a broad range, from Vienna Philharmonic and Hong Kong Ballet to LoL music

The original Korean-language musical “Last Empress” opened its curtains in Seoul earlier this month. The musical, which had its premiere in 1995, shows the life of 19th-century Empress Myeongseong, who was assassinated by Japanese agents in the years before Japan annexed the Korean Peninsula. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of its premiere, the show went through some major changes to appeal t...

From Feb. 25-27, the company will have its premiere of the newly-produced “Hamlet.” The play was set to be staged last year in celebration of the theater’s 70th anniversary, however, it could not go onstage due to the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. The play will be streamed four times for three days. It will offer two versions -- one filmed from a single perspective as if watched from the audience se...

Musical stars Ock Joo-hyun and Jeong Sun-ah bewitch audiences

Stage actor Kim Seong-nyeo to play female Faust

Lingering concerns over COVID-19 kept South Korean people from going to cinemas during the Lunar New Year holiday, but recently eased social distancing is expected to brighten prospects for the virus-hit film industry, box office data showed Monday. The number of moviegoers reached a total of 707,000 during the four-day lunar New Year holiday weekend that began on Thursday, according to the data...

State opera troupe will perform five full-act opera works this year

Popular shows extend runs to make up for two-month break

Bourne, best-known for his contemporary ballet version of “Swan Lake,” which features muscular male dancers as the swans, is an internationally acclaimed British choreographer who has won the Laurence Oliver Award nine times. He was knighted in 2016 for his contribution to the world of dance. The online streaming of the four works will be available every Friday and Saturday, March 5-27. Each wor...

Middle-seat vacancy rule relaxed for performing art halls, cinemas

TvN hit drama “Hotel Del Luna” to be made into musical in 2022

With the COVID-19 pandemic pushing the art industry to shift online, the Seoul Metropolitan Government plans to launch a studio for online streaming in central Seoul to make way for virtual performances. The former Namsan Creative Center, which shut down last year, will be turned into a new studio for production and streaming of virtual art performances. According to the Seoul Metropolitan Gove...

The number of cinema closures soared to a 12-year high in 2020 in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, data showed Tuesday. A total of 81 movie theaters closed shop across the nation last year, nearly double from the 43 shutdowns a year earlier, according to the data from the Ministry of the Interior and Safety. The number was the largest annual tally since 2008, when 88 cinemas in Asia's four...