New original plays, bigger audiences, a tighter community, more regional shows in the spotlight
Its three best entries each features at least one bright new talent at the helm
Some students may regard it as a hobby until they graduate, while others see it as a bona fide drama course for a long-term career. Regardless of its practitioners’ motivations, the recent developments in university-based theater organizations have transformed campus theater into a serious training ground for students’ professional, intellectual and moral growth once they leave the academe.
Starkly staged, these stories brim with depth, eloquence and conviction
Author and activist Alice Walker once observed that “poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution and the raising of consciousness.”...
Dulaang Unibersidad ng Pilipinas’ opening production for its new season is “Ang Katatawanan ng Kalituhan,” Guelan Varela-Luarca’s Filipino translation of...
Millennials will enjoy this stage adaptation of Edgar Samar’s young adult novel about a Pinoy gamer’s fantastical coming of age
One grabs the soul; the other drains it
Lhorvie Nuevo plays a woman whose lover tries to raise her from the dead in Tanghalang Pilipino's ‘Eurydice’
It’s a brilliantly mounted production that fuses fury, fear and, in its final moments, faint slivers of hope.
