‘Makbet’ by way of Nonon Padilla this way comes
It’s a reunion for the director and his former Tanghalang Pilipino actors–Irma Adlawan, who plays Lady Macbeth, and George de Jesus III, as Macbeth
It’s a reunion for the director and his former Tanghalang Pilipino actors–Irma Adlawan, who plays Lady Macbeth, and George de Jesus III, as Macbeth
From all indications, “Oro” was a worthy film effort derailed by a string of bad decisions, made not only by its creators, but by the Metro Manila Film Festival’s executive committee.
Clear, coherent and sound storytelling above all else—that’s our tacit takeaway from this year’s Virgin Labfest, the annual festival of “untried, untested, unstaged” plays which ends the third and
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.
Mara Marasigan, the daughter of actress Irma Adlawan, recounted on her Facebook account this afternoon that their family home in Cavite was burglarized last night at around 11 p.m. Her
The filmmaker, playwright and debuting stage director and his terrific ensemble create a profoundly moving ode to rediscovering one’s cultural roots
Denisa Reyes, this year’s recipient of the Gawad CCP Para Sa Sining for dance, wishes she has more opportunities to do theater productions.
‘Mga Buhay na Apoy,’ opening Oct. 2, just won first prize for full-length play in this year’s Palanca Awards
The actress Irma Adlawan, who hails from Cavite, was born in Tondo, Manila, in 19-forgotten to a retired colonel of the Philippine Air Force, Pedro Adlawan, and Conrada Santonil, housewife. She attended St. Mary Magdalene School in Kawit, Cavite, then Maryknoll College, UP Manila, and finally took up Speech and Drama at UP Diliman, completing the course save for her thesis.
Some students may regard it as a hobby until they graduate, while others see it as a bona fide drama course for a long-term career. Regardless of its practitioners’ motivations, the recent developments in university-based theater organizations have transformed campus theater into a serious training ground for students’ professional, intellectual and moral growth once they leave the academe.
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