The movie version of the Tinio-Cayabyab musical play based on the Nick Joaquin classic, with a virtual constellation of Filipino talents as cast, begins filming this month
QUEZON CITY, Philippines—Critically acclaimed veteran film and television actress Cherie Gil has built for herself a sparkling repertoire, playing women...
Lhorvie Nuevo plays a woman whose lover tries to raise her from the dead in Tanghalang Pilipino's ‘Eurydice’
Two Tony Award-winning Filipinos are involved in the Broadway revival of the musical “Once on This Island.”
Rody Vera is everywhere, and there is no way you can miss him. Just this year, he adapted the Bicolano epic “Ibalong” into a thundering dance-musical for Tanghalang Pilipino; he wrote the libretto for the Ninoy and Cory Aquino tribute musical “Pamana” for the Philippine Educational Theater Association; he transposed Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” into a bittersweet reverie for the bygone studio system of Philippine movies in Peta’s “D’Wonder Twins of Boac”; and, most recently, along with Tuxqs Rutaquio, he fleshed out new ways of looking at the Bard’s “The Merchant of Venice” with a bold reimagining, now called “Der Kaufmann/Ang Negosyante ng Venecia” (the show has remaining performances at CCP’s Little Theater on Saturday, 3 p.m. and 8 p.m., and Sunday, 3 p.m.).
In this retelling of the Greek tale, romantic affection falls second to a moving father-daughter bond
Nick Joaquin’s “A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino” is debuting as a movie at the 2017 Metro Manila Film...
The depth of Rody Vera’s script and the actors’ sterling performances carry the day
“The Cherry Orchard” is a classic play written by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. It’s a comedy about how an aristocratic family’s lavish lifestyle renders them broke, forcing them to sell their beloved land prized for its cherry blossoms.
TP’s planned 2016-17 season opens with the Virgin Labfest. While the annual festival of new plays had always been a...
