My Manila

Since music was the inspiration of the Casa San Miguel in Zambales , it is to be expected that the place has a concert hall, no matter how...

Entablado, one of Ateneo de Manila University 's student theater groups, is ending its season with a musical titled "Labaw Donggon:...

Enduring many hardships, the birds flew over a wide desert and seven valleys looking for the Simourgh, the King of the birds. After the last...

PETA Theater 's recent production of Shakespeare's " Haring Lear " (see yesterday's post) had certain elements of Japa...

The set and costumes of PETA Theater 's recent production of Shakespeare's " Haring Lear " was designed by Gino Gonzales,...

Tanghalang Ateneo , one of the student theater groups of the Ateneo de Manila University , is currently staging Japanese playwright Suzue To...

PETA Theater 's "Care Divas" ran from February to March of this year, but it proved to be so popular, it extended to April and...

The colorful, playful, paper cut-out style artwork in the second floor lobby of the Philippine Educational Theater Association 's PETA-P...

The last play that we watched in 2010 was a musical called Dragon Tales, the first production of Asia on Stage, which was set up in 2009 to...

I am loving the theater group Entablado 's musicals of seeming children's stories. Last year, it was Rene O. Villanueva's "...

The performance of Wadaiko Yamato that we watched last Saturday (see Tuesday's post ) was held in the Sky Dome of SM City North EDSA m...

Friday, March 26, was the awarding of the 2009 Gawad Buhay!, the Philstage Awards for the Performing Arts, at the Tanghalang Aurelio Tolenti...

The Filipino sarsuwela is a dramatic form that is rooted in the 19th century Spanish sainete , a comic skit with music, and zarzuela , a ...

Would you believe hundreds of 16 to 18 year old first year college students orderly and patiently lined up to watch a ballet? By the time Ba...

If Jupiter (Zeus) decides to take the form of your husband, will you be able to tell the difference? Alcmene didn't when Jupiter appeare...

The Humanities cultural gala Magis was staged at the Henry Lee Irwin Theater in the Ateneo de Manila University . Named after the American...

The Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero Theather is the home of Dulaang U.P. , the student theater group of the University of the Philippines – Diliman . ...

Manila's performing arts season has started! And the first play that I watched was Repertory Philippines ' production of The Fantast...

From director Ricardo G. Abad's notes on Tanghalang Ateneo 's staging of Aristophanes' Lysistrata , translated into Tagalog by ...

February 18, 2009 marks a very important event in the history of Philippine performing arts. On that day, the winners of the first Philstage...