Of the 20 songs by Sugarfree featured in “Sa Wakas,” the jukebox musical woven around the music of the late great pop-rock band that’s on its last weekend at the Peta Theater Center, nearly every other number has been a chart-topper, or at least a staple of the radio- music TV loop for years.
With the success of the recently concluded rock musical “Sa Wakas,” Sugarfree fans will never hear the band’s music the same way again.
Ateneo Blue Repertory is staging its first original musical this February, written and composed by Ejay Yatco.
The experience of watching Ateneo Blue Repertory’s “Toilet: The Musical” (which concluded March 1 after a three-week run) approximated that of sitting in the middle of a Bornean rainforest, at three in the afternoon in May, to see some cool animals appear.
The Sandbox Collective’s recently concluded “festival of the absurd,” dubbed “The Imaginarium,” proved to be the ultimate devotional exercise for theatergoers.
Gates Professional Schools in Quezon City, in line with its Victoria University-Switzerland MBA Industry Speaker Series, recently hosted a roundtable discussion with Pericles Lewis, founding president of Yale-NUS College in Singapore, at Mabuhay Palace in Manila
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If you want an evening of genuine surprise at the theater, the kind that makes you go, “I never thought they had it in them,” then the Ateneo is the place to be these days, where Blue Repertory’s “In the Heights” and Tanghalang Ateneo’s adaptation of “Waiting for Godot” prove nightly that youth and inexperience are never hindrances to putting up a show whose quality matches its ambition.
If any production from the festival deserves a second, longer life, it’s ‘Maniacal,’ the trenchant backstage drama written and directed by George de Jesus
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A few months ago, young composer Ejay Yatco had to ask his classical music teacher if he’s doing Beethoven right....
