Philstage’s Gawad Buhay! gears up for its big night
It’s time once again to celebrate the excellence of the Filipino live ( ‘buhay!,’ get it?) performance
June 6, 2015
It’s time once again to celebrate the excellence of the Filipino live ( ‘buhay!,’ get it?) performance
The Theatre at Solaire stages the world premiere of “Sabel, Love and Passion,” a musical production starring Iza Calzado and the Philippine Ballet Theater with the special participation of
9 Works Theatrical’s production, directed by Robbie Guevara and led by the sterling tandem of Audie Gemora and Michael de Mesa, hits all the right notes
‘For a lot of people, when it comes to love there is no gender,’ says Audie Gemora about playing the fey Albin, opposite Michael de Mesa’s Georges, in 9 Works Theatrical’s production of the musical
Picture this. Lights dim. A momentous hush. Bells sounding as the curtains rise. The audience embarking on a collective gasp. And then immediately they smile. A feeling that is foreign and yet stays on even as the marquee closes. Staged all over the world from Germany to Korea, Mexico to Australia, one of Broadway’s most beloved hit musicals is finally in Manila. Welcome, ladies and gents, to the “La Cage Aux Folles!”
There are theater venues, and there are theater venues. And while the typical stage or concert venue remains a mere element of the actual performance—a location, if you will—to the audience, it can make or break what’s happening right before them.
Audie Gemora beams as he walks the stage of The Theatre at Solaire—the spanking new venue for live musical and theatrical productions which he says the integrated hotel-casino-resort’s management planned and spent huge amounts on based on a vision.
Gates Professional Schools in Quezon City, in line with its Victoria University-Switzerland MBA Industry Speaker Series, recently hosted a roundtable discussion with Pericles Lewis, founding president of Yale-NUS College in Singapore, at Mabuhay Palace in Manila
Hotel.
The Sandbox Collective’s recently concluded “festival of the absurd,” dubbed “The Imaginarium,” proved to be the ultimate devotional exercise for theatergoers.
If the Aliw Awards were still interested in upping its credibility —or if it wants to show that it does pay attention at all—then the race for the Best Female Concert Performer trophy should be over by now. The winner is Bituin Escalante, whose voice basically nuked the CCP Little Theater to the ground during her solo concert, “Everything in Bituin,” last Oct. 9.
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