After controversy and a MET Gala dress, designer Puey Quinoñes is ready for the Philippine fashion scene once again
For the past few years, Puey Quinoñes found a new start in Los Angeles when his career in the Philippines met controversy. This…
The intimate charm of chamber music lured the full capacity audience of Balay Kalinaw (House of Peace) Conference Hall in...
It’s almost 7 p.m. on a cold November Friday in New York, and Liana Hunt is sitting in her dressing room in Broadway’s Winter Garden Theatre. Coffee in hand and still wearing her own clothes, she’s busy signing “Mamma Mia” posters. It’s one hour before the curtain rises.
Flashback, Palanggas! When we were invited to jet off to London on one of the fastest airlines to get you to Europe, KLM’s Royal Dutch Airlines (where we were pampered like royalty with meals provided by Michelin star-rated chef Jonnie Bore of De Librije, no less), we got to watch “Stomp!”, which was an awesome success at the CCP recently.
Watching Broadway shows doesn’t have to drain your New York budget if you know what to do. Here are the many ways you can get discounted tickets and how you can make the most out of your Broadway experience.
My first Broadway experience was a bit of a disaster. After a lovely pretheater dinner at Remi (buffalo mozzarella, white truffle pasta and tiramisu), I headed to the Neil Simon Theatre to watch “Hairspray.” The musical, set in the 1960s, was fun but jet lag hit me hard. I fell asleep twice—once before the intermission and once after. Whether I snored or not, I will never know.
In a dusty room near Times Square, set designer John Lee Beatty is putting the finishing touches on his latest project.
Music moves emotions. It is one art form powerful enough to move us to tears. I recall watching Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Phantom of the Opera,” the world’s most successful and popular musical. Sitting in the dark, I was blown away with awe and delight at the drama the musical could evoke from me.
It's the end of the Broadway rainbow for "'End of the Rainbow."
Prima Ballerina Lisa Macuja Elizalde isn’t the only Filipino artist staging what she calls her Swan Song series with last performances of “Swan Lake,” “Don Quixote,” “Giselle” and “Carmen.”
Two years after Buddy the Elf made Broadway audiences believe in an unlikely theatrical adaptation of a Will Ferrell movie — an adaptation without Ferrell — "Elf" the musical is back with yet another lead actor and all the joy we've come to expect from the industrious toy-maker in green tights.
