For the one-act play “Doc Resureccion, Gagamutin ang Bayan,” actor Jonathan “Tad” Tadioan prepared for his role as Boy Pogi...
The Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP), Writer’s Bloc and Tanghalang Pilipino host this year’s Virgin Labfest (VLF) anew on...
A puppet figures in Tanghalang Pilipino’s (TP) premiere of Malou Jacob’s “Batang Mujahideen.” It is the character of Fatima, who...
A marvelous sense of scale, local texture and atmosphere pervades “Lam-ang,” Tanghalang Pilipino’s new musical adaptation of the Ilocano epic...
One of the things JC Santos loves about the theater is its discipline. The thirtysomething TV and film heartthrob can...
Tanghalang Pilipino’s “Katsuri,” directed by Carlitos Siguion-Reyna, transplants the farmhands of John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men” from the American...
Jonathan Tadioan and Marco Viaña, the leading men in Tanghalang Pilipino’s (TP) “Katsuri,” mirror the dynamics between their respective...
In the acclaimed musical play “Mabining Mandirigma” by Nicanor G. Tiongson and Joed Balsamo, the role of the unbending hero Apolinario Mabini was played with distinction—in a controversial move by director Chris B. Millado—by three actresses: Delphine Buencamino, Liesl Batucan and understudy-turned-lead performer Hazel Maranan.
Tanghalang Pilipino’s (TP) “Coriolano” requires a second viewing, if only because there is a lot to take in in William Shakespeare’s lesser-known play on mob rule, patrician politicking and a domineering authoritarian leader who can swing the course of events in a city state.
Nothing of magnitude happens in Tanghalang Pilipino’s “Manila Notes.”
