Culled from a record of 192 submissions, the 12 new plays presented at the ongoing 13th Virgin Labfest...
Its latest production, ‘Happiness is a Pearl,’ is a one-act three-hander in a 30-seater space
Writing for this unique festival of one-act plays is tough, because ‘your play needs to be concise and sweet’
The first time former Tanghalang Pilipino artistic director Herbie Go and I talked about doing “something that we really, really want to do” was just after a Tokyo-held Asian theater collaboration we both participated in (with director Jose Estrella).
Top media celebrity G Töngi joins the cast of Upstart’s latest theater offering for Halloween, “SOS: Showcase of Original Shorts” at Caixa Bar and Restaurant, Makati. A collection of short, spooky comedy plays, “SOS” is the first in a proposed series of theatrical bar tours whose aim is to expand the theater-going market by using unconventional, unexpected show venues.
Now on its seventh year, Virgin Labfest, a festival that focuses on staging new plays, is breaking tradition. Instead of...
