Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay is located on 6 hectares of prime waterfront land by Marina Bay . It is Singapore 's leading cultural entertainment and performing arts centre and is designed to meet the needs of a full-scale musical play.

The Esplanade was first nicknamed The Papayas but later a new nickname The Durian stuck on and since then it has been fondly referred to as The Durian because of the prominent spiky sunshade curtain adorning the two glass domes of the complex. The Esplanade is a new generation of arts centre in Singapore .