BALAG puts the spotlight on installation artist Junyee
BALAG, the Musical is based on the life story of installation artist, Junyee.
BALAG, the Musical is based on the life story of installation artist, Junyee.
In December 1941 Japanese warplanes, after bombing Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, zoom eastward in the Pacific Ocean to bomb Baguio and Manila. Air power in the country was virtually cut off, although some young Filipino pilots valiantly challenged the superior might of the Japanese Air Force.
Comfort and glam are what often come to mind when we hear success stories of Filipinos who migrated abroad. Time and again, we overlook the fact that these immigrants had an enormous amount of adjustment and coping to do before finally being able to say that they are settled down and happy wherever they are. But, there are even some who don’t find happiness in a foreign land at all.
The granddaddy of all plays on Andres Bonifacio, whether musical or straight, is composer Jerry A. Dadap’s “Andres Bonifacio: Ang Dakilang Anak-Pawis,” with Dionisio R. Salazar, a Palanca Award-winning playwright, and leading poet Rogelio G. Mangahas, as librettists.
On the opening show of the extended run of “The King and I” in Newport Theater, Menchu Lauchengco-Yulo and Nonie Buencamino, who respectively play lead characters Anna Leonowens and King Mongkut, reveal that they were—gasp—still “winging it.”
REPERTORY Philippines’ “No Way To Treat A Lady,” a musical comedy thriller with book, music and lyrics by author/composer Douglas J. Cohen, opens March 1 and runs until March 24, at Onstage Greenbelt 1. Audie Gemora directs.
The 2012 National Theater Festival (NTF) at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP), which will run from Nov. 8-18, will feature 16 theater groups from across the nation.
Repertory Children’s Theater’s “The Wizard of Oz” continues its successful run at Greenbelt 1’s Onstage.
It’s the end of the Broadway rainbow for “‘End of the Rainbow.”
Due to numerous requests from all theater lovers, Upstart Productions proudly brings back the Off-Broadway smash hit “Forbidden Broadway,” a cabaret revue sharply spoofing show tunes, characters and plots of contemporary and current Broadway musicals.
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