For a different kind of pleasure this summer, something “forbidden” comes from veteran actor-playwright-director Joel Trinidad as he directs “Forbidden Broadway” for Upstart Productions May 11-27 at RCBC Theater.
Filipino dancers Mia Cabalfin and Rhosam Prudenciado have been chosen for the Artist-in-Residence program of Kyoto Art Center in 2012.
Philippine Educational Theater Association’s (Peta) musical “Care Divas” will feature Repertory Philippines actress Joy Virata and will be staged at Onstage Theater, Makati (known as Rep’s current “home” theater) for one weekend this April.
The Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra (PPO) will give its final performance for its concert season on April 20 at the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ Main Theater, 8 p.m., with Russian pianist Sofya Gulyak, first woman grand-prize winner of the Leeds International Piano Competition, as featured performer, under the baton of Olivier Ochanine, PPO principal conductor and music director.
Four pianos from different manufacturers figured in the recent engagements of Cecile Licad in Manila and the provinces.
Just as easily as they party, Filipinos find an excuse to dance—for leisure or entertainment, as a manifestation of worship or as a social valve for relationships.
It was a scandal of epic proportions. In February last year, fashion designer Puey Quiñones was caught trying to pass off a department store-bought jacket as his own creation. Shea Gamboa, the furious bride-to-be whose groom Jhon Maala commissioned the suit for their wedding, tweeted about what people soon referred to as “a fashion scam.”
I woke up at 4 the past two mornings to tears flowing down my cheeks. They came unbidden, no gulps or sobs, just a waterfall of tears, and are in relation to the man struggling for life in the hospital room across the hall—the love of my life, my husband, Angelo Castro Jr.
Because we are surrounded by a world of sound, we are not always aware of all the noise that we generate in our minds,” says meditation teacher and international speaker Anthony Strano in his book “Seeking Silence.”
On Saturday, Ambassador Bienvenido R. Tantoco Sr. turned 91, a genuine blessing indeed. But the even greater blessing is how, in his twilight years, the founder and chair of the Rustan Group of Companies—the foremost retail chain in the country—has chosen to focus on a cause that brings him back to the beginnings of his retail empire—the rehabilitation and redevelopment of Paco Market in Manila.
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