In an interview last month, actor-director Ron Capinding laid out the existential crisis that has gripped the theater industry for the past year: Either go virtual—“online and recorded”—or perish.
How often does it happen that a production staged mostly by theater newbies leaves you thoroughly enthralled by curtain call, and beyond excited for its playwright’s next work? Rarely, actually,
At first glance, Tanghalang Ateneo’s (TA) “Antigone vs. the People of the Philippines” seems to be both a national catharsis and a wish list of the victims of injustice finally
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Tanghalang Ateneo’s “AKO: Alpha Kappa Omega” finds itself caught between past and present.
On being Tanghalang Ateneo’s new artistic director: ‘I won’t lie—being AD is a dream. But I imagined this [happening] 20, 30 years from now, hindi ganitong agad-agad.’
Miguel Antonio “Guelan” Luarca is the epitome of the multitasking theater artist.
TA’s Glenn Sevilla Mas and DUP’s Dexter Santos step down this year as artistic director of their respective organizations.
Over the past couple of weeks, there has been a spate of arresting theater offerings, mainly student productions, on campuses. While vastly different from each other, a common set
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