In 2010, young lyric tenor Antonio (Arman) Ferrer auditioned for the role of the hero Tenyong in the iconic zarzuela “Walang Sugat” at the Irwin Lee Theater of the Ateneo de Manila, which was celebrating its centennial.
We were walking to Katipunan Avenue in Quezon City coming from Ateneo de Manila University, my grade school and high school alma mater: the legendary stage director Onofre R. Pagsanghan, myself, and a bright college student who was complaining about the religious instruction at the Ateneo.
There have only been a handful of performances of “Unspeakably Yours: The Underarm Monologues.” But word has spread about the hilarious but true anecdotes that deal with this taboo subject, the kili-kili.
In a dusty room near Times Square, set designer John Lee Beatty is putting the finishing touches on his latest project.
Philippine Educational Theater Association’s 45th season (2012-2013) lineup is hinged on cinema.
It’s not what you expect to discuss when you sit down with a playwright, especially one who’s opening on Broadway in a few days. But it’s really hard not to talk about food with Nicky Silver.
How many times can one spin variations on the theme of entrapment and escape, the need to flee what has become a destructively unsettled—or its flip side, becalmed—state? At the recent Virgin Labfest 7, which closed a couple of Sundays ago after a two-week run at the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ Tanghalang Huseng Batute, [...]
Last month, I dreamed of Rolando Tinio. It would have been likely if the dream content were tenor Dodo Crisol, the guy who gave me the complete Neruda collection and who died May 6, but it was Tinio who inexplicably appeared. He was sitting slouched in a mall lobby, in white sports shirt and olive-green [...]
“What’s the point of writing an award-winning play if, for decades, it has remained a manuscript in a glass-encased air-conditioned library in Makati City or a chapter in a textbook being read by students required by their professors in Literature or Humanities class? What’s the difference between ‘literariness’ and ‘theatricality’ of a play?” On its [...]
Now on its seventh year, Virgin Labfest, a festival that focuses on staging new plays, is breaking tradition. Instead of presenting four sets of trilogies, it will present only three sets. As an alternate, and a logical progression, it will now stage one full-length (two-act) play in lieu of the fourth set. The fifth set, [...]
Members of the diplomatic corps were in attendance at a reception hosted by the Consulate of the Republic of Lithuania for the 93rd National Day of Lithuania. Hon. Romualdas Vildius, consul ad honorem of Lithuania, greeted and welcomed guests before giving his welcome remarks. Guest of honor was the Department of Foreign Undersecretary for Policy [...]
