Bonifacio Global City’s Arts Center Festival in Taguig was climaxed by Opera Gala, a presentation before a full house at the new MayBank Performing Arts
Ballet Philippines’ final offering for the season, “Wings,” took to soaring heights with its glowing production of “Swan Lake.” Tchaikovsky’s tragic tale of an enchanted
Ballet Philippines is set to restage the all-time great classic ballet “Swan Lake,” beloved for its haunting tale of love under siege, music by the
Resorts World Manila’s production of the Broadway musical “Annie” under its production outfit Full House Theater Company, and Ballet Philippines’ hybrid dance-musical production celebrating
In a bid to draw the non-theater-going crowd to the theater, Ballet Philippines scored a coup with the pop-culture musical based on the revival of songs from the disco-era pop group VST& Company.
Ballet Philippines’ “Awitin Mo at Isasayaw Ko,” a new dance musical featuring the songs of VST & Co., is playing its second and last weekend
Only three productions in the play/musical category—Tanghalang Pilipino’s (TP) “The Wong Kids in the Secret of the Space Chupacabra Go!” and “Pangarap sa Isang Gabi ng Gitnang Tag-araw” and Red Turnip Theater’s (RTT) “Tribes”—and another three in the dance category—Philippine Ballet Theater’s (PBT) “The Great Classics” and “Filipino Masterpieces,” and Ballet Philippines’ (BP) “Firebird and Other Ballets”—were up for citation in the 2016 third-quarter coverage of Gawad Buhay, the Philstage Awards for the Performing Arts.
Orchestral and vocal music, fired-up choreography, a slew of popular singing actors and dancers—trained in the classical style but now sashaying like John Travolta and
BEGINNING in New York in 1987, “Neofilipino” is a platform for Filipino choreographers to make dance the central force in collaborating with the other art forms. Dance artists aired experimental and provocative works that spoke of Philippine contemporary life through dance. This year’s “Take Off” premiers four original pieces by Raul Alcoseba, Jose Jay Cruz, Ma. Elena Laniog, Kris-Belle Paclibar-Mamangon and Ronelson Yadao, interpreted by the country’s leading performers: Candice and Carissa Adea, PJ Rebullida, Jed Amihan, Mia Cabalfin, and the UP Dance Company, among others.
The Philippine Educational Theater Association’s “3 Stars and a Sun,” a musical with a dystopian Philippine setting that employed the groundbreaking rap music of
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