Gore Vidal, the author, playwright, politician and commentator whose novels, essays, plays and opinions were stamped by his immodest wit and unconventional wisdom, died Tuesday at age 86, his nephew said Tuesday.
Except in the year 2011, Dennis Teodosio holds the distinction of being the only playwright to have been produced in every single installment of the Virgin Labfest (VL) since it began in 2005.
For theater director Amiel Leonardia, it must have been an interesting sort of homecoming—the kind that speaks of the beautiful symmetry of coming full circle—as he finds himself assembling on the Claire Isabel McGill Luce Auditorium stage at Silliman University the elements that would recreate a story of war-torn Dumaguete.
Before his mother became the model for Blanche DuBois of "A Streetcar Named Desire" and his sister the inspiration for Laura Wingfield of "The Glass Menagerie," Tennessee Williams drew upon a college girlfriend — if only in name — to tell a story of desire, drunkenness and regret.
Brian Friel distrusted the reliability of mere facts. Ireland's greatest playwright of his generation, who died Friday at the age of 86, spent much of his life trying to convey the deeper truths of our existence — of a world filled with compelling fictions constructed by people, families and whole nations.
‘Motel rooms are just basically boxes; they remind me of CCP’s Tanghalang Huseng Batute. It is a space where people pretend, in the most intimate way’
The Nobel laureate has also written 9 plays–and made his debut as a stage actor at age 78
After ‘Batang Mujahideen,’ she says she wants to shift to ‘testing the waters of poetry’ and finally reading her ‘accumulated books through the years’
Despite the many distinctions the late Edgardo B. Maranan received as a writer, including the Hall of Fame...
The Cultural Center of the Philippines, the Writer’s Bloc and Tanghalang Pilipino present the Virgin Labfest 14 on...
