The Philippine Legitimate Stage Artists Group, Inc. (PhilStage), the country’s only alliance of professional performing arts companies, announces the staging of the awarding ceremonies of the 2011 Gawad Buhay!: The Philstage Awards for the Performing Arts, on July 1, 7 p.m., at the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ Main Theater Lobby.
Outstanding Play: “Doc Resureccion, Gagamutin ang Bayan” (TP) Outstanding Musical Production: “Stageshow” (TP) Outstanding Classical Dance Production: “Don Quixote” (BM)
9 Works Theatrical’s production of the evergreen Broadway musical “Grease” in November last year grabbed 13 nods to lead the fourth-quarter citations of the 2013 Gawad Buhay!, the Philstage Awards for the Performing Arts.
Trumpets’ “The Bluebird of Happiness,” a musical adaptation of the 1908 play by Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck, with music by Rony Fortich and libretto and direction by Jaime del Mundo, dominates the 2013 Gawad Buhay!: The Philstage Awards for the Performing Arts with 16 nominations.
In his speech during the Philstage Gawad Buhay 2013 Awards held last week at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP), Chris Millado, the artistic director of that institution, hailed the event as more of a “celebration” and “not a competition.”
The Philippine Educational Theater Association’s “Rak of Aegis,” a musical-comedy production about a fictional urban-poor community coping with floods that features the songs of the iconic pop-rock band Aegis, grabbed the lead in the 1st/2nd-quarter citations of the 2014 Gawad Buhay!, the Philstage Awards for the Performing Arts, with 16 citations in the performance and technical categories.
There were only four productions—all musicals—from member-companies of Philstage in the last quarter of 2014. These were “Scrooge” by...
The Philippine Educational Theater Association’s (Peta) “Rak of Aegis,” a musical-comedy production about a fictional urban-poor community coping with...
It’s time once again to celebrate the excellence of the Filipino live ( ‘buhay!,’ get it?) performance
“Rak of Aegis,” Peta’s hit musical-comedy about a fictional urban community perennially beset by floods, and which uses for its...