Over the past couple of weeks, there has been a spate of arresting theater offerings, mainly student productions, on...
Though it has always fought to survive, Philippine theater has gone way beyond survival mode the past three decades....
George de Jesus III and Irma Adlawan are twin examples of focus and truthfulness in a play that seems to be so many things at the same time
It’s a reunion for the director and his former Tanghalang Pilipino actors–Irma Adlawan, who plays Lady Macbeth, and George de Jesus III, as Macbeth
ONGOING Repertory Philippines ‘Agnes of God,’ until March 12, Onstage, Greenbelt 1 John Pielmeier’s play about a young...
The legendary teacher-director is still at it, inspiring yet another generation of Ateneo high school boys to learn enduring life lessons through theater
Visual excess and cluttered direction detract from Mario O’Hara’s poignant, prize-winning script
Nonon Padilla’s production of Shakespeare’s tragedy, translated into Filipino by Bienvenido Lumbera, started and ended on an unforgiving note
After successful stints in Metro Manila and Taipei, the Philippine Educational Theater Association’s avant-garde “Haring Lear”—based on “King Lear,”...
I must have always believed in magic. When I was 10 or so years old, I liked to imitate the Flores de Mayo that I saw during our summer vacations in Pagsanjan. Daily, children offered fresh flowers, usually bunched together calachuchi, adelfa, bachelor’s buttons, even cadena de amor, on the altar. That was church-conducted Flores.
