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.
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.
Since its founding in 2005, the Virgin Labfest (VLF) has had a major hand in the development of Filipino...
Despite the many distinctions the late Edgardo B. Maranan received as a writer, including the Hall of Fame...
The Nobel laureate has also written 9 plays–and made his debut as a stage actor at age 78
NEW YORK (AP) — “Hamilton” playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda and prize-winning visual artist Carrie Mae Weems are set for a public...
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.
‘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’
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.
NEW YORK (AP) — Playwright, poet and author Ntozake Shange, whose most acclaimed theater piece is the 1975 Tony Award-nominated...
