Behind the scenes of ‘The New Pope’
A ripped Jude Law strutting the beach in glowing Speedos might have been your first visual of HBO’s The Young Pope sequel, but series…
Finally, “Mabining Mandirigma” sounds like an actual musical. Which is to say the current staging—the Tanghalang Pilipino warhorse’s fourth run...
In the acclaimed musical play “Mabining Mandirigma” by Nicanor G. Tiongson and Joed Balsamo, the role of the unbending hero Apolinario Mabini was played with distinction—in a controversial move by director Chris B. Millado—by three actresses: Delphine Buencamino, Liesl Batucan and understudy-turned-lead performer Hazel Maranan.
‘So help me God,’ she says of this once-in-a-lifetime chance to play her hero forebear
And won a Philstage Gawad Buhay for it
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.
‘I have always loved working with TP. I have always loved being at CCP. It resonates with me and is soul-enriching’
TP’s planned 2016-17 season opens with the Virgin Labfest. While the annual festival of new plays had always been a...
The winners of the 2016 Philstage Gawad Buhay Awards have been announced, and we all know that Tanghalang Pilipino’s...
Star of stage and screen Irma Adlawan won her first Gawad Buhay—the annual Philstage Awards for the performing arts held Thursday night at the Repertory Globe Theater in Onstage Greenbelt One—when she was honored as Outstanding Female Lead Performance in a Play for Tanghalang Pilipino’s “Mga Buhay na Apoy”, the Kanakan Balintagos (aka Auraeus Solito) drama in which she played the matriarch of a troubled family rediscovering and finding healing in its mystical, indigenous roots.
Tanghalang Pilipino’s ‘Mabining Mandirigma’ leads with 13 nods
