Six productions by five member companies bagged a collective 52 citations in the second semester of 2019 Philstage Gawad...
Michael Kooman & Christopher Dimond’s musical “Dani Girl” was the maiden production of The Sandbox Collective, and for their fifth...
Watching a restaging of a play can be a double-edged experience for a viewer, particularly if the original version was...
The Sandbox Collective is celebrating its fifth year with the restaging of its heartwarming maiden musical “Dani Girl,” this time with younger actors.
Sisters gone cuckoo and a pair of cancer-stricken kids were the unlikely stars of the two stage productions that played the Peta Theater Center’s Main Theater, during The Sandbox Collective’s multi-arts festival “The Imaginarium,” which ran Oct. 28-31.
She has enchanted us as Anna in “The King and I”; made us cry buckets as the mom of a child sick with cancer in “Dani Girl”; and had us in stitches when she took on the role of theater actor Belinda Blair in the play-within-a-play “Noises Off.”
A boy locks himself in his bathroom for a year. Two sadomasochistic sisters plot to kill their employer. Five men hired to carry out a murder end up killing themselves.
‘Art definitely has healing capabilities. It’s that realization that one must live in the now, and live life to the fullest’
One of the things one learns studying Literary Criticism is that objectivity in the classic sense is an impossibility. A theatrical review, for example, does not come out of nowhere, and is always deeply influenced by the values and life experience of the reviewer. The best he can do is be aware of his biases as he writes.
“Why is cancer?”—with a line like this, you know that you’re in for a different kind of show in The Sandbox Collective’s latest offering, “Dani Girl.” How in the world does one create a cancer musical?
