The parking spaces outside a Chinese shopping mall are distinctive: marked out in pink, signposted “Respectfully reserved for women”, and around 30 centimeters wider than normal.
The Philippine Educational Theater Association’s “Rak of Aegis,” a musical-comedy production about a fictional urban-poor community coping with floods that features the songs of the iconic pop-rock band Aegis, grabbed the lead in the 1st/2nd-quarter citations of the 2014 Gawad Buhay!, the Philstage Awards for the Performing Arts, with 16 citations in the performance and technical categories.
Tanghalang Pilipino’s “Kleptomaniacs,” written by Layeta Bucoy and directed by Tuxqs Rutaquio, is a brilliant experiment, a socially aware original Filipino rap musical. I wish it had worked out better. I was not happy with this play, for reasons that have nothing to do with its novel format and everything to do with storytelling.
A woman with her back against the wall curses the heavens as she slowly falls to her knees. A man punches the wall and flips over the dining table.
To listen to playwright Floy Quintos reflect on the evolution of his play “Fluid” is to attend a virtual lesson in playwriting.
Despite facing a whirlwind of adversities over the past year—mainly the NCAA controversy and the loss against the Green Archers in the most recent FilOil tournament—San Beda Red Lions player Ryusei Koga is staying positive and is determined as ever to improve as a person, student and athlete.
Though tiny in person, Zoe Saldana can slug it out, as her fighting form demonstrated in action films such as 2009’s “Avatar,” 2013’s “Star Trek Into Darkness” and 2010’s “Colombiana.” But what she really wants to fight for is the cause of women in cinema.
Because he stands a muscular 6’6” and weighs almost 300 lbs, Dave Bautista scares a lot of people. He is, after all, best known as the professional wrestler Dave “The Animal” Batista (that’s right, no “u”), an intimidating opponent in the squared circle. But it turns out that his biggest enemy was himself.
Of all the people involved with the explosive, ambitious film “Guardians of the Galaxy,” there is nobody happier than James Gunn—who happens to be the unlikeliest director of a Marvel film to date.
A panel full of knobs, screws and swatches of bright colors? A station that sees mortals darting across the floor, banging their heads to the beat?
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