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Tanghalang Pilipino actors taking their bows after a performance of “Nang Dalawin ng Pag-ibig si Juan Tamad” at the Theatre Centre Vishnevy Sad in Moscow, Russia. PHOTO BY SHERYL SONGSONG

How TP’s ‘Juan Tamad’ conquered Moscow

At the Aug. 23 gala in a packed 300-seater theater, four curtain calls were necessary before the applause died down for the TP ensemble's performance.

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The beguiling surprise of ‘Nang Dalawin ng Pag-ibig si Juan Tamad’

Where this production wins is in its brand of comedy—the way it unfailingly connects with its audience

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Yegads! Is this a ghost I see before me?

These stage veterans agree–‘A great theater is haunted’

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Jonathan Tadioan, all of 29, is playing the mighty part of Willy Loman, 63

The case of 29-year-old actor Jonathan Tadioan playing the role of 63-year-old Willy Loman in Tanghalang Pilipino’s production of “Pahimakas sa Isang Ahente”—Arthur Miller’s classic “Death of A Salesman” translated into Filipino by Rolando Tinio—can very well be the theater curiosity of the season.

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‘Kleptomaniacs’ and the promise of the first rap musical

New and unique. Distinctly Pinoy and wonderfully contemporary. Rap and fliptop, local hiphop and everything in between.

A debuting playwright, a new director–it could only be the Virgin Labfest

When Herlyn Gail Alegre learned that her one-act-play “Imbisibol” got accepted to Virgin Labfest 9, she couldn’t believe it at once. She was at home when a friend sent her an SMS saying, “Congrats sa Virgin.” It didn’t sink in immediately. After all, “Imbisibol” was one of the 166 one-act plays submitted to this year’s festival, which opens June 26 at the Cultural Center of the Philippines.

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Jonathan Tadioan–this character actor is a nice character

Jonathan “Tad” Tadioan considers his breakthrough role of the tormented Boy Pogi Resureccion in the play “Doc Resureccion: Gagamutin ang Bayan” (written by Layeta Bucoy and directed by Tuxqs Rutaquio) as his first major challenge in Tanghalang Pilipino, the resident drama group of the Cultural Center of the Philippines.

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Freedom, escape–exciting theater

How many times can one spin variations on the theme of entrapment and escape, the need to flee what has...

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