‘This Is War’—the year’s first great performance
The second and third installments of “This Is War,” a four-part series of dramatic readings by the Company of Actors in Streamlined Theatre, were a study in contrasts—contrasting Jameses, that is.
The second and third installments of “This Is War,” a four-part series of dramatic readings by the Company of Actors in Streamlined Theatre, were a study in contrasts—contrasting Jameses, that is.
“Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,” the West End musical based on the 1968 movie, can be described as the children’s theater equivalent of the eye-popping spectacle of “Phantom of the
It would be gratuitous to begrudge the currently running Asian touring production of “Les Misérables” its unequivocal success at The Theatre at Solaire, where it plays to sold-out crowds
With its new production, “The Horse and His Boy,” the family-friendly Christian-oriented theater company Trumpets shows it can still evoke a sense of grandness and majesty in a production of smaller scale compared to its earlier lavish, fantasy-based musicals such as “The Bluebird of Happiness” and “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.”
In between rehearsals for “The Horse and His Boy,” a much-awaited production from Trumpets adapted by Luna Griño-Inocian from the C.S. Lewis novel and directed by Jaime del Mundo that will open this November, George Schulze, a theater actor who has starred in a number of musicals, makes the surprising confession that he was actually tone deaf as a child.
Unlike the adaptation of ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,’ this one will not be a musical—but the production ‘will still be epic!’
Its season got delayed this year, but Rep stalwart Joy Virata says the company is, against a competitive landscape, not relaxing its guard
G TÖNGI, newly appointed artistic director of Upstart Productions, spearheads Upstart Soundstage, a series of bi-weekly dramatic readings at Century City Mall on Sunday, June 15, at 7 p.m.
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.
From day one, even when he was still in his mother’s womb, Jaime del Mundo says he knew that his destiny was the theater. In 1960, his mother, nine months pregnant, attended a school musical in which her daughter was appearing. On the way back, feeling something, she decided to drop by the hospital. And whereupon she gave birth to Jaime.
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