‘Jubilation!’ A year of plenty for Manila theater
Enough bounty to fill a Top 10 list and more–and here we try
December 26, 2015
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Enough bounty to fill a Top 10 list and more–and here we try
It’s never really clear what’s going on in the minds of the three well-off teenage New Yorkers at the heart of Kenneth Lonergan’s “This Is Our Youth.” They kiss and curse and flirt, fire insults, plot schemes, smoke pot. Yet it’s hard to shrug off the feeling that what we’re seeing is only the tip of the proverbial iceberg; in this delirious adolescent fever dream, who exactly are these people?
Topper Fabregas directs Nicco Manalo, Jef Flores and Cindy Lopez in a play the text of which ‘pretty much takes care of the ‘funny.’’
A few months ago, young composer Ejay Yatco had to ask his classical music teacher if he’s doing Beethoven right. He had to relearn everything, practice like hell 24/7 before
Othello, Richard III, Macbeth, King Lear–now he’s drawing gasps as another towering character, Ludwig van Beethoven, in “33 Variations.”
Ballet Manila’s 20th-anniversary dance retrospective ‘BM 2.0’ collectively got 17 nods to take the lead in the first- and second-quarter citations of the 2015 Gawad Buhay!, the Philstage Awards
Red Turnip Theater’s latest production is its most ambitious and most enthralling yet
Red Turnip Theater’s ‘33 Variations’ in Whitespace, Makati MOISÉS Kaufman’s Tony-nominated play “33 Variations” is about Beethoven’s puzzling obsession with a mediocre waltz makes its Manila debut in a production directed
Shamaine Centenera-Buencamino and Teroy Guzman headline Red Turnip Theater’s production of the acclaimed Moisés Kaufman play on a peculiar Beethoven obsession
The country’s three biggest dailies all bore similar banner photos last Tuesday: policemen in tears during a recent gathering in the wake of the abominable massacre of their colleagues in Mamasapano, Maguindanao. Those were haunting images, to say the least, but they also inadvertently begged the timeworn question: Just how up close and personal can a picture get before it all becomes disruptive, disrespectful and distasteful?
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