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• Nora Aunor, Dario Argento to Receive Cinemanila's Lifetime Achievement Award

  

  The 2011 Cinemanila International Film Festival, in cooperation with the City of Taguig, will pay tribute to one of the Philippines' most accomplished actresses... Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2011 CULTURE

• Bohol Notebook 2: the Loboc Children's Choir in Rehearsal

  [Note: Excerpted from the latest issue of Susan Calo-Medina's Travel Time, The Magazine] ... If you’re lucky, as we were on the late morning we visited [Loboc... Read more

  Posted on 14 October 2011 CULTURE

• Virgin Labfest Year 8 Now Accepting Play Submissions

  The Virgin Labfest YEAR 8 is now open for script submissions. One-act plays and full-length play scripts are accepted. For 2012, submissions are requested for... Read more

  Posted on 14 October 2011 CULTURE

• Joanna, Audie, Cris, Marvin Et Al.--catch Them in Resorts World Manila's The...

  Cris Villonco wasn't at the presscon, but Joanna Ampil, Audie Gemora, Marvin Ong, Tanya Manalang and the kiddie cast sang songs from the Rodgers and... Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2011 CULTURE

• This Time, Noli Me Tangere: The Opera, from Dulaang UP

  

  In the continuing year-long celebration of Jose Rizal’s birth sesquicentenary and also as a pre-birth centennial tribute for National Artist Felipe de Leon,... Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2011 CULTURE

• Bohol Notebook 1: A Jewel of a River Cruise--and Not the Famous One in Loboc,...

  

  [Note: an excerpt from a piece I wrote for the latest issue of Susan Calo-Medina's Travel Time magazine, coming out this October. Excerpt posted here with... Read more

  Posted on 09 October 2011 CULTURE

• Oct.-Dec. 2011 Issue of Susan Calo Medina's Travel Time, The Magazine out Now

  

  Philippine travel and tourism stalwart Susan Calo Medina brings the beauty of the Philippine archipelago closer to readers with the fourth issue of Susan Calo... Read more

  Posted on 09 October 2011 CULTURE

• First-ever BroadwayWorld.com/Philippines Awards Launched; Send in Nominations...

  BroadwayWorld.com Philippines celebrates its third anniversary by launching the first-ever BWW Philippines Awards. Our theater scene in the Philippines,... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2011 CULTURE

• Stomp Meet 'n Greet at Ayala Malls

  

  “Stomp,” the international theatrical sensation that will run at CCP's Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo on October 18-23, 2011 for only 8 performances, will have a... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2011 CULTURE

• Up Close with Uncle Ho

  

  A friend just got back from Vietnam with pasalubong of Uncle Ho trinkets. And I remembered this, from a 2004 travel piece I did for the paper: YOU CAN'T VIEW... Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2011 CULTURE

• Atlantis Productions' Next to Normal Back for a Two-week Rerun, Oct. 7-16

  

  “This is the best production Atlantis has presented in its many years of producing theater... not with a mammoth set, a huge cast, and racks of elaborate... Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2011 CULTURE

• Fil-American Cast and Crew in Wong Kar Wai-inspired Twelfth Night in NY

  

  Leviathan Lab, an Asian-American professional creative studio invested in advancing the careers of Asian-American artists, presents its inaugural production,... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2011 CULTURE

• Call for Entries to RAFI Triennial Awards Blogging Contest

  To promote the inspiring stories and work of recognized development workers in the Visayas and Mindanao, the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc. Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2011 CULTURE

• Harana Sa Madla

  Bravo, Philippine Opera Company. When you've got the entire house singing with you (messed-up lyrics and all), you know you've got yourself a hit show. Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2011 CULTURE

• At Meralco Theater Until Oct. 30--Rep and Stages' Peter Pan, A Musical Adventure

  

  Two more teasers below. Sam Concepcion is Peter Pan, Michael Williams is Captain Hook (mahvelous--check out the vid!), in Peter Pan--A Musical Adventure, which... Read more

  Posted on 29 September 2011 CULTURE

• Koro Ilustrado Concert at Philamlife Auditorium Tomorrow

  

  Koro Ilustrado, an all-male choir directed by multi-awarded conductors Edmund Alan Piquero and Anna Abeleda-Piquero, is staging its third major concert titled... Read more

  Posted on 29 September 2011 CULTURE

• Global Shakespeare at Shakespeare's Globe

  

  Except--awww, no Filipino entry? All the world's onstage--a single stage--as theater troupes from around the globe perform all of Shakespeare's plays in three... Read more

  Posted on 28 September 2011 CULTURE

• Teaser: Philippine Opera Company's Ang Bagong Harana, Opening Sept. 29

  Numbers performed by the cast at the recent presscon for the show. My phone-cam does a crappy job capturing the true vocal power of these classically-trained... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2011 CULTURE

• Upstart Productions' Much Ado About Nothing at Philamlife Auditorium, Sept. 30

  

  Upstart Productions presents an exciting new take on William Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing” on Sept. 30, 2 p.m., at PhilamLife Theater, UN Ave., Manila. Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2011 CULTURE

• Tanghalang Pilipino Presents Three Plays by Tony Perez

  

  Tanghalang Pilipino presents "Tatlong Tabing: Three Plays by Tony Perez," at CCP's Tanghalang Huseng Batute from September 30 to October 23, 2011. Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2011 CULTURE