Soaring arias and human aspirations in ‘A Comedy of Tenors’
There’s no business like show business, and in the case of Repertory Philippines’ “A Comedy of Tenors,” the show must go on even when operatic tensions run high. The
There’s no business like show business, and in the case of Repertory Philippines’ “A Comedy of Tenors,” the show must go on even when operatic tensions run high. The
In its premiere production “Always Upon a Time,” Playshop Playhouse rises to the challenge of making classic fairy tales and Biblical parables relevant to a Gen Z audience and their parents by placing these tales within the context of a Filipino family.
Filipino plays and musicals have given us couples such as Crisostomo Ibarra and Maria Clara, Orosman and Zafira, Florante and Laura, Julia and Tenyong (“Walang Sugat”), Ada and Dodong (“Zsa
(UPDATE)–With 135 sold-out shows in 2014 plus the scheduled 60 this year, the Philippine Educational Theater Association’s (Peta) “Rak of Aegis” with an estimated total of 195 shows has become
But it was as magical as theater could get watching Lorenz Martinez sing the Baker’s big number ‘No More’ a cappella
One of the things one learns studying Literary Criticism is that objectivity in the classic sense is an impossibility. A theatrical review, for example, does not come out of nowhere, and is always deeply influenced by the values and life experience of the reviewer. The best he can do is be aware of his biases as he writes.
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.
Back in the late 1970s in New York, there was this Tony Award-winning composer, Marvin Hamlisch, and a Grammy Award-winning songwriter, Carole Bayer Sager, who met, fell in love, and had an eventful and turbulent affair.
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.
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