MERCH REVIEW: Shawn Mendes The Tour
While the punks were creative DIY-ers, we, postmodern millennials, are more into readymade stuff. We’re Duchampian like that.
In her forays into theater, film and TV, Cherie Gil has mesmerized audiences with her performance as the legendary diva Maria Callas in “Master Class,” stood toe-to-toe with theater stalwarts as the bitchy Baroness in “The Sound of Music,” and deteriorated with dignity as the impoverished heiress in “Arbol de Fuego.”
“Spring Awakening” builds up into an explosive confrontation between adolescents on the brink of self-discovery and the repressive adults who want them to conform to society.
Mike de Leon’s “Batch ’81” was a searing indictment of the violence and the brainwashing that happens behind closed doors...
Floy Quintos’ tightening of the myriad threads that almost dragged down the original production of Full House Production’s “Ang Huling El Bimbo” is a case in point.
Among the more redeeming aspects of Spotlight Artists Centre’s “Dirty Old Musical (DOM)” is its utter lack of pretentiousness. The audience, which filled the seats during the show’s first run in 2016 and is coming back for more in this rerun, knows what it’s getting into.
The issues at the front and center of Tony Kushner’s award-winning “Angels in America: Millennium Approaches”—HIV, AIDS, and the gay culture—might be more understood and acceptable today than when the playwright wrote his material 30 years ago, and its message remains powerful and poignant.
Tanghalang Pilipino’s (TP) “Coriolano” requires a second viewing, if only because there is a lot to take in in William Shakespeare’s lesser-known play on mob rule, patrician politicking and a domineering authoritarian leader who can swing the course of events in a city state.
In producing “Ang Apologia ni Sokrates,” a Filipino stage version of Socrates’ “Apology,” the Ateneo de Manila Philosophy Department dealt with the challenge of making a 4th-century intellectual one-man discourse relevant to college students with a short attention span.
Arthur Miller’s American classic, “All My Sons,” becomes painfully provocative Philippine drama that cuts close to home.
“Miong,” a remounting of its 1998 biopic of President Emilio Aguinaldo; and “The Quest for the Ibong Adarna
