In celebration of the 40th year of Asean-Japan Friendship and Cooperation, a series of performances dubbed “Japanese Fun and Magic: Daikagura, Wazuma and Rakugo” was successfully held in Manila and Davao City for the month of June.
THE “PRESTIGE play” of Repertory Philippines this year is Amy Herzog’s “4,000 Miles” (Onstage, Greenbelt I, Makati City, directed by...
Only three productions in the play/musical category—Tanghalang Pilipino’s (TP) “The Wong Kids in the Secret of the Space Chupacabra Go!” and “Pangarap sa Isang Gabi ng Gitnang Tag-araw” and Red Turnip Theater’s (RTT) “Tribes”—and another three in the dance category—Philippine Ballet Theater’s (PBT) “The Great Classics” and “Filipino Masterpieces,” and Ballet Philippines’ (BP) “Firebird and Other Ballets”—were up for citation in the 2016 third-quarter coverage of Gawad Buhay, the Philstage Awards for the Performing Arts.
International stage actor and women’s rights advocate Monique Wilson will receive the Hildegarde Lifetime Achievement Award for media and the performing arts from St. Scholastica’s College on March 8.
Fringe is a global arts festival first established in Australia in the 1940s, and it’s about to happen in the Philippines.
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.
SEOUL — Online festival K-Musical on Air, organized by the Korea Tourism Organization, kicked off its four-day run Monday. On...
It was the year music, theater and dance thrived amid unpredictable monsoon floods and record-breaking typhoons and earthquakes.
THE BROADWAY-WEST End mania in Manila continued with the small-scale British invasion that was “Beyond the Barricade” (The Theatre at...
It was a triple whammy for prima ballerina Lisa Macuja in her “Swan Song Series 2012” at the Star City Complex: “Don Quixote,” “Giselle” and “Carmen.”
