If there is any one quality that embodies the productions that The Necessary Theatre stage—and most of these plays are directed by cofounder Bart Guingona—it is that they make you think.
The 4th Wall Theater Company (T4 Theater) brings back the original Filipino musical “Rivalry” with performances at the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino (CCP Little Theater) this weekend—Jan. 17 (8 p.m.), Jan. 18 (3 p.m. and 8 p.m.) and Jan. 19 (3 p.m.).
I had never really known Joaquin Pedro Valdes personally until I had him read for the part of Ken in John Logan’s “Red.” He was the last in a line of would-be Kens, each of whom was lacking in some way. Sure, I had seen him as a child actor in Trumpets’ “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,” but I had never really said anything to him before beyond a postperformance “Congrats!”
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