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“What’s the point of writing an award-winning play if, for decades, it has remained a manuscript in a glass-encased air-conditioned...
How many times can one spin variations on the theme of entrapment and escape, the need to flee what has...
Next year may well be a banner year for the venerable, 43-year-old Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP), in view of the heady mélange in store for audiences, budding artists and online addicts: operas, musicals, concerts, plays, indie films, dances, social media, art exhibits, workshops and master classes, and digital and multimedia offerings.
The Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) issued a statement on Wednesday, condemning the plagiarism act committed by UP student Mark Joseph T. Solis.
People have been wondering about those three portentous letters emblazoned on the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) logo: KKK. Is it something secret and revolutionary—as in that secret society of the Philippine Revolution?
It was a unique press conference in the sense that the two hosts—actors Reb Atadero and Arya Herrera—fielded all the questions to the panel of actors and directors. And the invited media persons kept prudently silent, because there was no open forum.
“August: Osage County,” the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play by actor-writer Tracy Letts, is set in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, a speck of a town of less than 4,000 people somewhere in the Great American Plains. The state is just north of Texas, so it’s perfectly acceptable to assume that they must speak in a sort of Southern accent there.
On its 10th year, the Pasinaya Open House Festival of the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) is set to grow bigger as it expands to various museums and galleries in Manila. The festival is on March 16.
The raves are still pouring in, even as Repertory Philippines’ “August: Osage County” is on its last weekend. The lion’s share of the praise goes to Baby Barredo, the company’s cofounder, artistic director and now the play’s main performer after an absence of more than a decade. Barredo remains at the top of her game at 72—an age she is not ashamed to admit.
It was a press conference more dramatic than usual, and on the stage of the Cultural Center of the Philippines at that, a brainchild of CCP vice president and artistic director Chris Millado.
