There is often a temptation to stage Shakespeare with all the elegance that centuries of history have infused into the...
Ateneo Blue Repertory’s “Skin Deep,” which runs until tomorrow, Sept. 30, at the Gonzaga Fine Arts Theater, Ateneo de Manila University, follows seven individuals at a futuristic “beauty resort,” where they undergo physical makeovers that only end up exposing their insecurities, as well as the resort’s own sinister secrets.
In lesser hands, Stephen Sondheim’s “Company” would have come out as little more than a comedy about relationships, with single...
The tricky thing about “Charot!”—Philippine Educational Theater Association’s (Peta) 51st season ender—is that it functions more as a primer on federalism than as a proper narrative.
A boomer, a Gen X and two millennials took stock of the past 12 months in Manila theater. The result is this first collective appraisal by our Theater reviewers since Lifestyle began its Theater section six years ago, under Theater editor Gibbs Cadiz.
Tanghalang Ateneo’s “Marisol” sees the title character (played by CJ Lubangco) attempting to navigate an increasingly surreal.
Repertory Philippines’ “Stage Kiss” gets most of its laughs from the line that separates performance and reality. In telling the...
The Marikina community theater circuit has been alive and kicking these past weeks, with a pair of small but ambitious productions telling stories deeply rooted in history and in our collective experiences of childhood.
Like many biblical adaptations before it, Trumpets’ “Joseph the Dreamer” interprets this story of a son sold to slavery as...
With its two-night performance of “Bulawan”—the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ (CCP) 50th anniversary concert—the CCP reaffirmed the values...
