Due to numerous requests from all theater lovers, Upstart Productions proudly brings back the Off-Broadway smash hit “Forbidden Broadway,” a cabaret revue sharply spoofing show tunes, characters and plots of contemporary and current Broadway musicals.
It was 1997. Liesl Batucan was appearing as Luisa in the long-running Broadway musical “The Fantasticks.” She was being directed by Baby Barredo of Repertory Philippines, her “theater Mama”: “She molded me, honed me, sharpened me, guided me, inspired me and at times, as needed, scolded me. But the end result was that she brought out the best in me,” Batucan recalls.
Married to a photographer, Susy Henderson is a London housewife who is blind as the result of an accident. A chain of events leads three criminals (two ex-convicts, and a ruthless killer) to her house when she is alone. The three are searching for a musical doll that contains 20,000 pounds of heroin.
Upon entering the theater, one notices an annoying crack of light that seeps through one side of a door, glaring at the audience, on the set of Repertory Philippines’ staging of “Wait Until Dark.”
“We’re the ultimate leading man and woman for this play—we have steamy scenes and you’ll sweat when you see them,” declared Nonie Buencamino, referring to his partnership with fellow multiplatform actor Ana Abad Santos in Red Turnip Theater’s season-opener, “Time Stands Still.”
Tanghalang Pilipino’s radical musical reimagining of Apolinario Mabini returns Feb. 19-March 13
MANTRA for the week: “Loving myself gives me the capacity to love others.”
TP’s planned 2016-17 season opens with the Virgin Labfest. While the annual festival of new plays had always been a...
‘I have always loved working with TP. I have always loved being at CCP. It resonates with me and is soul-enriching’
The 25-year-old composer-arranger is the musical director for the CCP concert ‘The Ensemble: Breaking the Fourth Wall’–featuring 16 performers
