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‘Aurelio Sedisyoso’ is a spectacle—a loud and arduous one

The brains behind Tanghalang Pilipino’s award-winning “Mabining Mandirigma” are back with a new musical, “Aurelio Sedisyoso,” a so-called “rock...

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From the acclaimed team of ‘Mabining Mandirigma,’ a new rock musical

The same creative team that infused steampunk visual elements into Tanghalang Pilipino’s acclaimed “Mabining Mandirigma”—an original Filipino musical...

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Landmark martial law play ‘Pagsambang Bayan’ now a musical

The Tag-ani Performing Arts Society production has music by Jed Balsamo and Lucien Letaba, and direction by Joel Lamangan

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Liesl Batucan as Apolinario Mabini and Arman Ferrer as Emilio Aguinaldo. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO from Tanghalang Pilipino/Kurt Copon

Gawad Buhay awardee ‘Mabining Mandirigma’ returns

Tanghalang Pilipino on its 30th theatrical season for its mid-season offering presents the re-staging of the acclaimed and much-awarded “Mabining Mandirigma”, a steampunk musical, this December.

In ‘Koro/Nasyon,’ the ensemble as theater royalty for an evening

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Liesl Batucan is the new ‘Mabining Mandirigma’

Tanghalang Pilipino’s radical musical reimagining of Apolinario Mabini returns Feb. 19-March 13

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‘Kanser@35, The Musicale’: ‘Noli Me Tángere’ reinvigorated

The long-running stage adaptation of Rizal’s novel has benefited greatly from becoming a musical

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‘Mabining Mandirigma’ is essential Filipino theater

The show’s revelatory punch is not confined to its radical casting of a female actor–the exceptional Delphine Buencamino–as Apolinario Mabini

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