‘Birds of the same feather, they flock each other’
Your mantra for the week: “I love money and money loves me in return.”
Your mantra for the week: “I love money and money loves me in return.”
Fearlessly mounted, thrillingly acted–and distressingly short-lived
A lot of ‘love, but not enough of a budget’–and that was enough to hold a fun, convivial affair that also honored local theater’s roots
The country’s three biggest dailies all bore similar banner photos last Tuesday: policemen in tears during a recent gathering in the wake of the abominable massacre of their colleagues in Mamasapano, Maguindanao. Those were haunting images, to say the least, but they also inadvertently begged the timeworn question: Just how up close and personal can a picture get before it all becomes disruptive, disrespectful and distasteful?
Fresh off the critical success of the Pulitzer Prize winner “Rabbit Hole,” Red Turnip is capping off its second season with another heralded play from Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Donald Marguilles, “Time Stands Still.”
Something is happening in local theater. No, we don’t mean that all the previous years had been a long period of ennui and inactivity. Far from it.
Sisters gone cuckoo and a pair of cancer-stricken kids were the unlikely stars of the two stage productions that played the Peta Theater Center’s Main Theater, during The Sandbox Collective’s multi-arts festival “The Imaginarium,” which ran Oct. 28-31.
Gates Professional Schools in Quezon City, in line with its Victoria University-Switzerland MBA Industry Speaker Series, recently hosted a roundtable discussion with Pericles Lewis, founding president of Yale-NUS College in Singapore, at Mabuhay Palace in Manila
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The Sandbox Collective’s recently concluded “festival of the absurd,” dubbed “The Imaginarium,” proved to be the ultimate devotional exercise for theatergoers.
“Cock,” Red Turnip Theater’s production of the Olivier Award-winning play by Mike Bartlett, is back on stage on Oct. 3-5, six months after its successful first run. And director Rem Zamora couldn’t be happier that his first “baby” is making a reappearance.
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