The pioneering theater group Philippine Educational Theater Association (Peta) is among this year’s recipients of the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay...
Soxie Topacio, a stalwart of the Philippine performing arts with a prolific, decades-long career as an esteemed actor, director,...
Representing the two major streams of contemporary Filipino drama, they broke ground and changed the scene for good—and for the better
There is no way you can quantify the film credentials of Nora Aunor. She has won acting awards in cinema here and abroad, and the number just keeps growing.
Supertyphoon “Yolanda” showed the best and the worst of social media. In the immediate aftermath, at least, there was none of the irreverent humor that Filipinos are known for, we who make fun of anything and anyone, even and especially our own misfortune. The enormity of the tragedy was such that not even the worst kibitzers on social media had the guts to post any wisecrack.
Even if they lost their National Artist titles, they are still eligible for the honorable award in the future.
