Tony Mabesa: ‘First of all, you have to be healthy to be in theater’
The founding artistic director of Dulaang UP is this year’s Gawad CCP Para sa Sining awardee for Theater
The founding artistic director of Dulaang UP is this year’s Gawad CCP Para sa Sining awardee for Theater
The granddaddy of all plays on Andres Bonifacio, whether musical or straight, is composer Jerry A. Dadap’s “Andres Bonifacio: Ang Dakilang Anak-Pawis,” with Dionisio R. Salazar, a Palanca Award-winning playwright, and leading poet Rogelio G. Mangahas, as librettists.
Theater, television and film director and actor Joel Lamangan is Gantimpala Theater’s new artistic director. He steps into the position after the passing of GT’s founding artistic director Tony Espejo last year.
When he introduced Gantimpala Theater artistic director Tony Espejo at the Philstage Gawad Buhay! awards night last year, which honored Espejo for lifetime achievement in Philippine theater, writer-director Jose Javier Reyes recalled how he first met the honoree:
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