“Fake” by Floy Quintos (UP Playwrights’ Theater, directed by Tony Mabesa) is a dramatization of the Code of Kalantiao hoax,...
It’s amazing how Atlantis Productions can mount one contemporary musical after the other, some of them demanding, like the recent...
Building on the successful formula—time-honored Filipino music cum dance—of its earlier “Harana,” the Philippine Opera Company (POC), led by soprano Karla Gutierrez, came up with “Ang Bagong Harana” (RCBC Plaza’s Carlos P. Romulo Theater), creatively written and directed by Floy Quintos.
Since I turned 63 last Dec. 30, I thought that my year-ender (or what passes for it) should pay tribute to those amazing senior citizen in the arts.
Filipino-American tenor Arthur Espiritu, 36, is a new name in the Philippine performing arts scene where opera productions come few and far between.
For its first production this year, Repertory Philippines mounted a significant comedy-drama with a heart, Geoffrey Nouffts’ “Next Fall” (OnStage, Greenbelt 1, directed by Audie Gemora).
Gripping is the word for Repertory Philippines’ musical “Jekyll & Hyde” by Wildhorn-Bricusse (at Greenbelt 1 OnStage, directed by Menchu Lauchengco-Yulo) with Michael Williams playing the main character(s) in a bravura singing-and-dancing performance.
The Philippine Legitimate Stage Artists Group, Inc. (PhilStage), the country’s only alliance of professional performing arts companies, announces the staging of the awarding ceremonies of the 2011 Gawad Buhay!: The Philstage Awards for the Performing Arts, on July 1, 7 p.m., at the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ Main Theater Lobby.
Meet Elaine Margaret Reyes Lisondra and Giles Earvin Santos—they’re just two of more than 80 Filipino performers in HK Disneyland.
While Matthew Broderick clearly can take a joke, it might be best if he skips the latest edition of the theater spoof "Forbidden Broadway."
