Years from now, we will talk of Atlantis Theatrical Entertainment Group’s “The Band’s Visit” and remember how it was forced...
One main criticism against the Manila premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Cats” nine years ago was its lack of clarity....
The Cultural Center of the Philippines’ Little Theater better be sufficiently insured. Last we heard, the roof had been blown to pieces by a vocal supernova in the form of Sheila Francisco, in her first solo concert dubbed “Once in a Lifetime,” directed by Roselyn Perez.
God, that’s good! That’s the title of the tongue-twisting Act II opener of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s “Sweeney Todd:...
The experience of watching Ateneo Blue Repertory’s “Toilet: The Musical” (which concluded March 1 after a three-week run) approximated that of sitting in the middle of a Bornean rainforest, at three in the afternoon in May, to see some cool animals appear.
“August: Osage County,” the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play by actor-writer Tracy Letts, is set in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, a speck of a town of less than 4,000 people somewhere in the Great American Plains. The state is just north of Texas, so it’s perfectly acceptable to assume that they must speak in a sort of Southern accent there.
A marvelous sense of scale, local texture and atmosphere pervades “Lam-ang,” Tanghalang Pilipino’s new musical adaptation of the Ilocano epic...
Glenn Diaz’s “The Quiet Ones,” which won the biannual Palanca Award for Novel this year, begins like a thriller: a...
This year’s University of Santo Tomas (UST) National Writers’ Workshop, organized by the UST Center for Creative Writing and Literary Studies (CCWLS), had 15 fellows, the most number of participants since its revival seven years ago. We had a screenwriter (Nigel Santos); two playwrights (Gil Nambatac and Manuel Tinio); four essayists (Kristine Estioko, Ria Valdez, Bayani Gabriel and Riddick Recoter); four fictionists (Yan Baltazar, Pat Onte, Keanu Reyes and Karl “Kid” Orit); and four poets (Edmark Tan, Hans Malgapu, Soc delos Reyes and this writer).
The second and third installments of “This Is War,” a four-part series of dramatic readings by the Company of Actors in Streamlined Theatre, were a study in contrasts—contrasting Jameses, that is.
