How to get the much-lauded veteran actor-director Bart Guingona out of his comfort zone and further challenge him as actor?
Chris Millado, Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) vice president and artistic director, was in grade school when martial law was declared. At the height of it, he joined the student movement at the University of the Philippines Diliman. Having been witness to the dark days of the Marcos dictatorship, he feels it is particularly imperative that millennials and the young generation do not fall victim to historical revisionism.
National Artist for Literature Nick Joaquin is known for his novels, short stories, poems, essays, reportage and plays, but once upon a time, he tried his hand at scriptwriting and apparently didn’t like it.
Mary Ann Topacio-Rogers was only 3-and-a-half years old when she lost her father, Roudel, due to a car accident.
Actor-director-producer Joel Trinidad, along with codirector Nicky Triviño, handpicked Lorenz “Loy” Martinez for the role of King Arthur in Upstart Productions Inc.’s latest musical production, “Monty Python’s Spamalot,” which opened last night (July 29, Friday) and will run all weekends until Aug. 12 at the Carlos P. Romulo Auditorium, RCBC Plaza in Makati City.
Soxie Topacio, a stalwart of the Philippine performing arts with a prolific, decades-long career as an esteemed actor, director, writer and teacher-mentor across theater, film and television, passed away Friday at around 9 o’clock, his home theater group the Philippine Educational Theater Association (Peta) said.
Four years ago, art connoisseur-patron and playwright-director Floy Quintos found himself repeatedly saying that word like an invocation at the chapel of St. Joseph the Worker in Victorias City, Negros Occidental. It was his fourth visit, but he found himself still staring at the “Angry Christ” mural by the late Filipino-American artist Alfonso Ossorio.
The Fringe Manila Festival opened its third year last Wednesday, Feb. 8, at Pineapple Lab with new, daring and...
For music purists, the unthinkable will happen on Feb. 11 at Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo (Main Theater) of the Cultural Center...
It took over three years for the much-requested rerun of the hit Sugarfree musical to happen
