‘Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike’ is a winsome foursome
Rep’s staging strikes a fine balance between pathos and all-stops-out comedy
Rep’s staging strikes a fine balance between pathos and all-stops-out comedy
‘Sa Wakas,’ Jan. 12-Feb. 5, Power Mac Center Spotlight, Makati City The critically acclaimed homegrown musical featuring the music of the rock band Sugarfree returns with a fresh cast. First
They play squabbling siblings in Rep’s 80th season opener, ‘Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike’
Yearend lists, film critic Richard Bolisay wrote early this year, are only “the writer’s vain idea of playing favorites and revealing his ‘preferences…’” So it goes with theater. There
‘Prepare to be devastated,’ says director Bart Guingona. ‘It packs the kind of power only the theater can deliver’
‘The last time I was on stage was in 2010,’ she says–then this year she got a Gawad Buhay for her stunning turn in ‘The Normal Heart’
A casual look at Celia Diaz-Laurel’s resume reveals a storied, active life punctuated by awards and recognition for her humanitarian work (The Community Chest Humanitarian Award, The United Nations
Star of stage and screen Irma Adlawan won her first Gawad Buhay—the annual Philstage Awards for the performing arts held Thursday night at the Repertory Globe Theater in Onstage Greenbelt One—when she was honored as Outstanding Female Lead Performance in a Play for Tanghalang Pilipino’s “Mga Buhay na Apoy”, the Kanakan Balintagos (aka Auraeus Solito) drama in which she played the matriarch of a troubled family rediscovering and finding healing in its mystical, indigenous roots.
This June, the Peta Theater Center partners with The Necessary Theatre to bring back Bart Guingona’s production of Larry Kramer’s “The Normal Heart,” which had its Asian premiere in
Nine sly, gentle, witty vignettes on love and its complications, acted out by a captivating foursome
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