Going barefoot, eating ramen, catching Pokémon–what it takes to get Jef Flores on that stage
“I like rehearsing barefoot,” says Jef Flores. “I like feeling the floor with my toes. It helps me think and keeps me balanced.”
“I like rehearsing barefoot,” says Jef Flores. “I like feeling the floor with my toes. It helps me think and keeps me balanced.”
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 multi-awarded playwright (nine wins in the Palanca Awards so far) likes “Archie” comics because, “like me and my friends, he’s not perfect. He loves his family and friends and will do everything he can to help them. He aims to please everyone which, of course, leads him to all sorts of trouble.
The 2013 Gawad Buhay! Best Actress (for ‘Der Kaufmann’) is crowdsourcing funds for her stint at the famed arts school
Ballet Philippines’ “The Blue Moon Series,” a showcase of some of its most well-loved pieces featuring the choreography of such dance stalwarts as Alice Reyes, Agnes Locsin, Tony Fabella, Denisa Reyes, Bam Damian and Alden Lugnasin, among others, took the lead in the third-quarter citations of the 2014 Gawad Buhay!, the Philstage Awards for the Performing Arts, with collective 16 citations in the creative, performance and technical categories.
Outstanding Original Libretto Rody Vera, “D’Wonder Twins of Boac” (Peta) Outstanding Translation or Adaptation Rody Vera, “Der Kaufmann” (Tanghalang Pilipino) Outstanding Musical Direction Josefino (Chino) Toledo, “San
Tanghalang Pilipino’s “Ibalong,” a dance-musical reimagining of the Bicolano epic, topped the 1st/2nd-quarter citations of the 2013 Gawad Buhay!, the Philstage Awards for the Performing Arts, with 15 citations in the performance and technical categories.
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