Artists Talk: Wawi Navarroza in conversation with Jed Gregorio
In this episode of Artists Talk, Jed Gregorio speaks to Wawi Navarroza about the exhibition, Self-Portraits and the Tropical Gothic, shown at Silverlens…
These days, two women are lighting up the stage at the Peta Theater Center, where “Rak of Aegis” has returned...
In concert at the Philippine International Convention Center last year to celebrate her 40th anniversary in show business, Lea Salonga...
Finally, “Mabining Mandirigma” sounds like an actual musical. Which is to say the current staging—the Tanghalang Pilipino warhorse’s fourth run...
From start to end, “Madagascar: A Musical Adventure” looks polished and effortless, progressing from scene to scene with professional ease....
Not the man himself, of course, who turns 90 in March and whose theater pieces have long endured a reputation for being technically difficult. The critic Richard Corliss said it best in Time magazine: “His melodies [are] meant to challenge the ear, not soothe it,” and “his lyrics are often so complex, they have to be heard twice.”
Twin Bill Theater returns this month with the Asian premiere of Mark St. Germain’s “Dancing Lessons,” a two-hander between a man with Asperger’s syndrome and an injured Broadway dancer who becomes his instructor.
Why the title? That question, among a multitude of questions, loomed over “Binondo,” the self-proclaimed Tsinoy musical that trundled back to The Theatre at Solaire last weekend for a four-show rerun—a year after premiering in the same venue, through a production described by reviewer Cora Llamas as “unfocused” and “teleserye-like.”
Four productions from four member companies scored a collective 24 nods in the 2019 Philstage Gawad Buhay midyear citations.
The theme for Virgin Labfest 15, closing tomorrow at the Cultural Center of the Philippines, is “titibok-tibok,” the human heart as onomatopoeia.
From flooded Barangay Venezia to war-torn Saigon, and back.
