Nick Joaquin’s “A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino” is debuting as a movie at the 2017 Metro Manila Film...
It’s a reunion for the director and his former Tanghalang Pilipino actors–Irma Adlawan, who plays Lady Macbeth, and George de Jesus III, as Macbeth
The case of 29-year-old actor Jonathan Tadioan playing the role of 63-year-old Willy Loman in Tanghalang Pilipino’s production of “Pahimakas sa Isang Ahente”—Arthur Miller’s classic “Death of A Salesman” translated into Filipino by Rolando Tinio—can very well be the theater curiosity of the season.
The TP Actors’ Company’s take on the Chekhov classic by way of Tinio was billed as a ‘recital’–but what a recital!
There is a story I told earlier about the late Rolando Tinio. In the late ’60s or early ’70s, he gave a talk in an exclusive girls’ college on the power of the vernacular. For us who are old enough to remember, this era was the period of Filipinization, activism and renewed nationalism.
She tried quitting ‘Ang Larawan’ twice—but decided to stay on, and triumphed
ROLANDO Tinio was not only a renowned director, but a playwright, an actor and a designer. He was also equally admired for his translations of the classics of the Western theater. His range as a translator covered not only the works of Shakespeare, Ibsen, Chekhov and other masters, but extended to the operas of Verdi and Puccini.
The movie version of the Tinio-Cayabyab musical play based on the Nick Joaquin classic, with a virtual constellation of Filipino talents as cast, begins filming this month
Last month, I dreamed of Rolando Tinio. It would have been likely if the dream content were tenor Dodo Crisol,...
The raves are still pouring in, even as Repertory Philippines’ “August: Osage County” is on its last weekend. The lion’s share of the praise goes to Baby Barredo, the company’s cofounder, artistic director and now the play’s main performer after an absence of more than a decade. Barredo remains at the top of her game at 72—an age she is not ashamed to admit.
