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.”
At the Aug. 23 gala in a packed 300-seater theater, four curtain calls were necessary before the applause died down for the TP ensemble's performance.
Tanghalang Pilipino’s new musical, “Balag at Angud,” which runs until Sept. 16 at Cultural Center of the Philippines’ Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino, covers the art-making career of Luis Yee Jr., otherwise known as Junyee. Known for his protest art and his use of found objects, the now-75-year-old installation artist saw himself moving from one place to another, encountering resistance every which way as he sought to continue satisfying his insatiable urge to create.
