This is a super hectic week for actor Joey Paras.
Over the past couple of weeks, there has been a spate of arresting theater offerings, mainly student productions, on...
ONGOING Repertory Philippines ‘Agnes of God,’ until March 12, Onstage, Greenbelt 1 John Pielmeier’s play about a young...
In the Book of Genesis, one reads that Adam lived 900 years. Methuselah lived 969 years. Abram, later renamed Abraham for reasons known only to God, lived 175 years. His wife Sarah died at 120 years old, her son, Isaac at 180.
Fides Cuyugan Asensio is the recipient of this year’s Philstage Gawad Buhay! for Lifetime Achievement in the Performing Arts, along with director Nonon Padilla and choreographer Denisa Reyes.
By his own reckoning, actor Fernando “Nanding” Josef—now artistic director of Tanghalang Pilipino—has spent 40 years in theater. This, he said, is instrumental in his getting the kind of unique education he would never have learned in the classroom.
I've never been to any “roasting,” literary or journalistic. I have no idea what goes on at occasions of that kind.
It used to be flowers for a special occasion—birthday, anniversary, convalescence, “just thought of you.” But flowers have become too expensive, and if you made a mistake and bought all white, my, my, that’s for the dead.
Though it has always fought to survive, Philippine theater has gone way beyond survival mode the past three decades....
In an interview months ago, director Nonon Padilla said he would challenge any member of the audience to have a dry eye once “Lorenzo,” a rock opera on the indio Lorenzo Ruiz who died for his faith in 17th-century Japan, closes its curtain.
