Among the more redeeming aspects of Spotlight Artists Centre’s “Dirty Old Musical (DOM)” is its utter lack of pretentiousness. The audience, which filled the seats during the show’s first run in 2016 and is coming back for more in this rerun, knows what it’s getting into.
The thing with musical theater royalty—those immortal, wildly popular pieces such as “Les Miserables” or “The Phantom of the Opera”—is that it either completely blows you away or it doesn’t. There is no middle ground.
The issues at the front and center of Tony Kushner’s award-winning “Angels in America: Millennium Approaches”—HIV, AIDS, and the gay culture—might be more understood and acceptable today than when the playwright wrote his material 30 years ago, and its message remains powerful and poignant.
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.
Dozens of community and nonprofit theaters have been forced to abandon productions of "To Kill a Mockingbird" under legal threat.
When two of the country’s most prolific playwrights premiere new work within days of each other, one simply must pay attention, especially in this age of fake news and rampant historical revisionism.
The Marikina community theater circuit has been alive and kicking these past weeks, with a pair of small but ambitious productions telling stories deeply rooted in history and in our collective experiences of childhood.
In producing “Ang Apologia ni Sokrates,” a Filipino stage version of Socrates’ “Apology,” the Ateneo de Manila Philosophy Department dealt with the challenge of making a 4th-century intellectual one-man discourse relevant to college students with a short attention span.
One: ice cream. Two: water fights. Three: staying up past your bedtime and being allowed to watch TV.