A mere kilometer from the Magallanes MRT station, in a nondescript building called Whitespace, a play of diminutive scale rages with astonishing explosive power, one that ravages the robust human façade and inflicts damaging blow after blow upon the fragile emotional soul.
Twenty-five productions, including 15 musicals, seven reruns and seven brand-new Filipino pieces, have already been announced for 2019.
A puppet figures in Tanghalang Pilipino’s (TP) premiere of Malou Jacob’s “Batang Mujahideen.” It is the character of Fatima, who...
In 2017, Manila saw two plays by the American playwright Sarah Ruhl—“Eurydice,” mounted by Tanghalang Pilipino using a Filipino...
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.
The country's three biggest dailies all bore similar banner photos last Tuesday: policemen in tears during a recent gathering in the wake of the abominable massacre of their colleagues in Mamasapano, Maguindanao. Those were haunting images, to say the least, but they also inadvertently begged the timeworn question: Just how up close and personal can a picture get before it all becomes disruptive, disrespectful and distasteful?
It’s definitely a hit if there’s even a Facebook page pleading for your show’s return.
Sisters gone cuckoo and a pair of cancer-stricken kids were the unlikely stars of the two stage productions that played the Peta Theater Center’s Main Theater, during The Sandbox Collective’s multi-arts festival “The Imaginarium,” which ran Oct. 28-31.
One main criticism against the Manila premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Cats” nine years ago was its lack of clarity....
Only two shows from the 2013-2014 season are still running on Broadway: Disney’s “Aladdin,” and the jukebox musical “Beautiful,”...
