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Tanghalang Pilipino celebrates its 25th season by opening in August with José Rizal’s “Noli Me Tangere,” in commemoration of the...
The last time Tanghalang Pilipino staged the Cayabyab-Lumbera musical-theater adaptation of Rizal’s novel “Noli Me Tangere,” the result was vastly...
Tanghalang Pilipino will stage “Tatlong Tabing: Three Plays by Tony Perez,” which includes “Sierra Lakes;” “Bombita”; and “Nobyembre, Noong Akala...
Dulaang UP (DUP) will stage “Umaaraw, Umuulan, Kinakasal ang Tikbalang,” a children’s play based on publisher-painter-theater producer and Inquirer contributing writer Gilda Cordero-Fernando’s children’s short story “The Magic Circle.”
In a year that was largely more of the same—that is, like last year, ruled by musicals, the plays barely making comparable buzz—the biggest and most significant developments in local theater happened mostly offstage.
An eye being fish-hooked out of its socket before a live audience may not be your usual theater fare to begin the year. But true to its mission of developing young playwrights by including original Filipino plays in each theater season, Tanghalang Pilipino brings back possibly the most engaging original Filipino masterpiece for the stage in the past decade: “Doc Resureccion: Gagamutin ang Bayan,” a one-act play by Layeta Bucoy, directed by Tuxqs Rutaquio.
Musicals dominate TanghalangPilipino’s line-up for its 26th season (2012-2013) and three doyennes of dance will be part of bringing the productions to life.
The Cultural Center of the Philippines announces the staging of the Virgin Labfest, a festival of new plays (untried, untested,unpublished and unstaged) by emerging and well-known playwrights to be held from June 27 to July 18, 2012 at the CCP Tanghalang Huseng Batute with 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. shows. Virgin Labfest is a project of the CCP in cooperation with the Writer’s Bloc, Inc. and Tanghalang Pilipino.
Layeta Bucoy’s newest work “Walang Kukurap,” a play that tries to explore and expose the minds of people in public office, successfully opened Friday night (September 14) at the Cultural Center of the Philippines’s Tanghalang Huseng Batute, coincidentally attended by a fearless militant lawmaker, a whistleblower who almost got killed a la desaparecidos and a senator robbed of his post for four years.
Tanghalang Pilipino is staging “Walang Kukurap,” a suspense thriller about the pervasive shady politics and unethical business practices in the Philippines today.
