Coming off a hugely successful and critically acclaimed extended run, Dulaang UP’s “Ang Nawalang Kapatid” will stage benefit shows on July 4-6, and 11-13 (Friday to Sunday only) in celebration of UP Department of Speech Communication and Theater Arts’ 55th anniversary.
In a 1997 article we wrote on the most significant theater events of the previous year, we quoted Tanghalang Pilipino artistic director Fernando Josef as lamenting that the Cultural Center of the PHilippines (CCP) Playwriting Contest’s “No Winner” results had basically represented to him the dearth of playwrights in Philippine theater.
“Fake” by Floy Quintos (UP Playwrights’ Theater, directed by Tony Mabesa) is a dramatization of the Code of Kalantiao hoax,...
Dulaang UP’s 3rd offering for its 39th season, “Ang Huling Lagda ni Apolinario Mabini” is a full-length musical with book and lyrics by Floy Quintos, and direction and choreography by Dexter M. Santos.
In whatever shape or form, the starving, honest artist who loses his battle against a more commercial world—in his lifetime, anyway—has become a favorite-topic-cum-stereotype in many plays and movies.
With Filipino indigenous culture as their “peg,” directors Floy Quintos and Alex Cortez, under the supervision of Nes Jardin, Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) 2015's creative director, staged “Fused,” a 40-minute after-dinner extravaganza Saturday night that showed delegates in Cebu City the best of Filipino music, dance and fashion.
What lies in the minds of young children that gestates as they grow older, is sometimes never forgotten, and one day is realized, whether in the reality of life itself or in a beautiful fantasy translated in an art form?
What is it about Floy Quintos plays? “The Kundiman Party” is a world away from Quintos’ “Angry Christ”...
“Ang Huling Lagda ni Apolinario Mabini” is Krina Cayabyab’s first full-length musical, and she says the challenges are immense but surmountable.
Pride Month at Arts Above? That’s the idea behind Artist Playground’s (AP) programming for June—well, sort of.
