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It is clear just by looking at the promo materials that Resorts World Manila’s (RWM) ongoing production of “Priscilla, Queen of the Desert” is energetic, transgressively comical, and very, very, very gay.
When I auditioned for Repertory Philippines (Rep)’ production of “A Chorus Line” back in 1978, its founder and artistic director,...
The winners of the 2016 Philstage Gawad Buhay Awards have been announced, and we all know that Tanghalang Pilipino’s...
It is easy to dismiss Trumpets’ “The Bluebird of Happiness”—which the Christian theater company dubs its “big musical comeback”—as just another extravagantly fantastical, unrestrainedly colorful kiddie show. When the musical’s first promotional posters were unveiled online some months ago, the central image of two children heading into the bluish unknown with the eponymous bird hovering in a trail of glitter seemed like a black box warning for those allergic to the cutesy, the silly and juvenile.
The raves are still pouring in, even as Repertory Philippines’ “August: Osage County” is on its last weekend. The lion’s share of the praise goes to Baby Barredo, the company’s cofounder, artistic director and now the play’s main performer after an absence of more than a decade. Barredo remains at the top of her game at 72—an age she is not ashamed to admit.
Star of stage and screen Irma Adlawan won her first Gawad Buhay—the annual Philstage Awards for the performing arts held Thursday night at the Repertory Globe Theater in Onstage Greenbelt One—when she was honored as Outstanding Female Lead Performance in a Play for Tanghalang Pilipino’s “Mga Buhay na Apoy”, the Kanakan Balintagos (aka Auraeus Solito) drama in which she played the matriarch of a troubled family rediscovering and finding healing in its mystical, indigenous roots.
I had never really known Joaquin Pedro Valdes personally until I had him read for the part of Ken in John Logan’s “Red.” He was the last in a line of would-be Kens, each of whom was lacking in some way. Sure, I had seen him as a child actor in Trumpets’ “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,” but I had never really said anything to him before beyond a postperformance “Congrats!”
C.S. Lewis stepson Douglas Gresham coming to Manila to grace the premiere of ‘The Horse and His Boy’
What he said of Trumpets’ earlier production of ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’: ‘It is one of, if not the most beautiful and moving versions of LWW ever to grace the stage’
Via Facebook Live, Philstage announced today the nominations for the 2016 Gawad Buhay, the Philstage Awards for the Performing...
