This June, the Peta Theater Center partners with The Necessary Theatre to bring back Bart Guingona’s production of Larry Kramer’s “The Normal Heart,” which had its Asian premiere in
Building on the smash hit ‘Rak of Aegis’—but on a darker note—the new musical features the songs of the late great rap artist Francis M.
The Philippine Educational Theater Association (Peta) has enjoyed a fruitful 2015 featuring the raging success of its musical hit Rak of Aegis and its brilliant retelling of Rizal’s masterpieces
The recent limited run of Larry Kramer’s “The Normal Heart” by The Necessary Theatre was among the year’s most acclaimed theatrical productions. It was called “important,” “indispensable” and “necessary,”
Fearlessly mounted, thrillingly acted–and distressingly short-lived
(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
The country’s three biggest dailies all bore similar banner photos last Tuesday: policemen in tears during a recent gathering in the wake of the abominable massacre of their colleagues in Mamasapano, Maguindanao. Those were haunting images, to say the least, but they also inadvertently begged the timeworn question: Just how up close and personal can a picture get before it all becomes disruptive, disrespectful and distasteful?
Fresh off the critical success of the Pulitzer Prize winner “Rabbit Hole,” Red Turnip is capping off its second season with another heralded play from Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Donald Marguilles, “Time Stands Still.”
“We’re the ultimate leading man and woman for this play—we have steamy scenes and you’ll sweat when you see them,” declared Nonie Buencamino, referring to his partnership with fellow multiplatform actor Ana Abad Santos in Red Turnip Theater’s season-opener, “Time Stands Still.”
Actor and director Nor Domingo has a sweet side to him outside of the theater world: He makes tropical fruit-flavored sorbets.
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