This year’s Philstage Natatanging Gawad Buhay! (Lifetime Achievement Award) recipient for Dance is 73, hails from Negros, and counts a 45-year love affair with the art form where he is recognized as a distinguished dance chronicler, educator and critic.
Outstanding Original Libretto Rody Vera, “D’Wonder Twins of Boac” (Peta) Outstanding Translation or Adaptation Rody Vera, “Der Kaufmann” (Tanghalang Pilipino) Outstanding Musical
It is clear just by looking at the promo materials that Resorts World Manila’s (RWM) ongoing production of “Priscilla, Queen of the Desert” is energetic, transgressively comical, and very, very, very gay.
9 Works Theatrical’s production of the evergreen Broadway musical “Grease” in November last year grabbed 13 nods to lead the fourth-quarter citations of the 2013 Gawad Buhay!, the Philstage Awards for the Performing Arts.
Trumpets’ “comeback” musical production “The Bluebird of Happiness,” with music by Rony Fortich and libretto and direction by Jaime del Mundo, leads the third-quarter citations of the 2013 Gawad Buhay!, the Philstage Awards for the Performing Arts, with 18 nods in the performance, creative and technical categories.
“Elmar, look where we are now,” exclaimed Celeste Legaspi onstage when she received her Philstage Natatanging Gawad Buhay! for Lifetime Achievement a few years back. Celeste singled out the Philstage executive director who, aside from overseeing the awards night at the CCP Little Theater, had also convinced a number of reviewers of national dailies and arts professors from different universities to band together to watch and judge the year-round shows of the professional performance groups comprising Philstage.
Performing arts veterans Fides Cuyugan Asencio, Nonon Padilla and Denisa Reyes join the ranks of Natatanging Gawad Buhay! Lifetime Achievement Awardees honored by the Philippine Legitimate Stage Artists Group, Inc. (Philstage), in ceremonies held at Star Theater at the CCP Complex on June 16.
Outstanding Play: “Doc Resureccion, Gagamutin ang Bayan” (TP) Outstanding Musical Production: “Stageshow” (TP) Outstanding Classical Dance Production: “Don Quixote” (BM)
Repertory Children’s Theater’s “The Wizard of Oz” continues its successful run at Greenbelt 1’s Onstage.
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.
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