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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.
Dream castings don't come much better than Mikhail Baryshnikov playing Vaslav Nijinsky -- one great ballet dancer playing another.
Pramoedya Ananta Toer is an Indonesian novelist who spent many years in a bleak island-prison during the Suharto regime. He was also a supporter of the dictator Sukarno, who persecuted writers. And the Left-leaning Pramoedya refused to help these writers because he considered them pawns of the military.
Hailed as a rare gathering of three iconic performing artists—Lea Salonga, Cecile Licad and Lisa Macuja-Elizalde—“The Legends and the Classics” will have much-awaited repeat performances this October.
Singing actress Pinky Amador gave what may well be the performance of her life as French chanteuse Edith Piaf in Pam Gem’s “Piaf” (Atlantis Productions, directed by Bobby Garcia at the Romulo Auditorium, RCBC Plaza). Bravura acting dovetailed with singing that remarkably sounded like the late, celebrated Piaf.
An explosion of youthful energy. Such characterized the opening ceremonies of the International Dance Xchange Festival and Workshop of the National Committee for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), held recently at the big City Coliseum of Puerto Princesa, capital of fabled Palawan.
It was at the Ateneo de Manila, with its Jesuitical emphasis on the humanities and theater as character formation, that Leo Rialp, director and actor for the stage, screen and TV, developed a love for theater.
SEOUL — While the performing arts scene is one of many industries hit by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, in Korea,...
SEOUL — Online festival K-Musical on Air, organized by the Korea Tourism Organization, kicked off its four-day run Monday. On...
ERECTED in the early 1930s, razed by World War II, rehabilitated and restored in the late 1970s, and neglected once...
