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• Tanghalang Ateneo Opens 33rd Season with Sintang Dalisay

  

  Tanghalang Ateneo opens its 33rd Season this July with Sintang Dalisay, a dramatic piece forged from two sources--the awit "Ang Sintang Dalisay ni Julieta at... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2011 CULTURE

• May Pakpak Ang Oras at Iba Pang Mga Dula from De La Salle's Dulaang...

  

  For its second season, the De La Salle University theater group Dulaang Laksambayanan, Inc. presents "May Pakpak Ang Oras at Iba Pang Mga Dula," a restaging of... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2011 CULTURE

• My Point Exactly.

  STILL CLUELESS [Inquirer editorial, 7.9.11] The good bishops still don’t get it, do they? The reactions so far of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2011 CULTURE

• Boy Abunda and Ladlad Present This Weekend's Care Divas

  

  The Philippine Educational Theater Association continues its run of Liza Magtoto and Vincent de Jesus’ blockbuster musical play, “Care Divas. Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2011 CULTURE

• The Moment

  

  The latest riveting shot by my high school batchmate, Manila Bulletin ace photojournalist Linuz Escandor: Arman Tolentino hugs his wife, as their son Adam... Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2011 CULTURE

• The Q&A; Fabcast, Parts 3-4

  Parts 1-2 here. Part 3: The one where caller and faithful Fabcast listener Ming Meows asks us, “Ngayong Independence Day [we recorded this on the evening of Jun... Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2011 CULTURE

• Daniel, You're a Star in the Face of the Sky...

  

  On top of being on the Hollywood A-list, he does serious theater, sings and dances in musicals (or at least in one--so far), has successfully evaded becoming... Read more

  Posted on 05 July 2011 CULTURE

• On the Apology to the Theater Community, Et Al--last Na Talaga, Pramis, So Help...

  Rafa Santos' second apology, this time directed at the theater community, is quite a stirring read (here). Independent of his now infamous words on TV, it... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2011 CULTURE

• Dexter Santos' Rizal X Promises to Be Not Your Typical Rizal Play

  

  It’s not your typical Rizal play. Not “Fili.” Not “Noli.” Not Rizal straight out of a textbook. Dulaang UP’s “Rizal X” is a breed all its own. Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2011 CULTURE

• Kapuso and Kapamilya Stars in Gantimpala Theater's Kanser (Noli Me Tangere)

  

  “We are one with the nation in the celebration of the 150th birth anniversary of Dr. Jose Rizal, thus, Gantimpala Theater opens its 34th season with 'Kanser,'... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2011 CULTURE

• Ateneo BlueRep's Little Shop of Horrors, July 27-August 13

  “Little Shop of Horrors,” a black comedy musical satirizing old-school sci-fi movies that has become one of the longest-running Off-Broadway shows of all time,... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2011 CULTURE

• Post-apology Takeaways

  

  The Spot.ph report here. George De Jesus III: If artists are not responsible for the context and meaning of the things they say, and if we simply ignore or... Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2011 CULTURE

• An Appreciation: Jose Mari Avellana, 70

  

  Philippine Daily Inquirer, 06.29.2011 FOR ACTOR-DIRECTOR José Mari Avellana, who died of aneurysm Sunday, it was an all-too-brief Indian summer. Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2011 CULTURE

• 'See the Unseen' at the Cinemalaya Film Festival This Year--in CCP/Greenbelt 3

  

  Thirty one digital films in competition, plus more than a hundred in exhibition, new sections, and a second festival venue, all make Cinemalaya bigger and bette... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2011 CULTURE

• Another Show Opening This Friday--The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber!

  

  No need to introduce the man, of course--those 16 musicals of his, and the cavalcade of irresistible melodies they have spawned through four decades, more than... Read more

  Posted on 22 June 2011 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Atlantis Productions' Aida Opens This Friday, June 24

  

  Ima Castro, last seen onstage by her countrymen 10 years ago as the post-Lea Salonga Kim in Miss Saigon-Manila, is headlining the Elton John-Tim Rice musical... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2011 CULTURE

• The Q&A; Fabcast, Parts 1-2

  We've got call-in questions from readers! A first for our podcasts, and a welcome tweak to our usual pace, routine, even energy (wait till you hear part 4, wher... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2011 CULTURE

• Rama at Sita on Video--the Return! (p. 3)

  Part 1 here, Part 2 here. The last heart-stopping moments of perhaps the most lavish original Filipino musical ever staged. The clips are made available online... Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2011 CULTURE

• Sex--that Private, Intimate Moment--according to Gregg Araki

  

  Every self-respecting gay man should encounter, and grapple with, the cinema of Gregg Araki at least once in his life (good entry point: Mysterious Skin, the... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2011 CULTURE

• Oscar-winning Film Departures to Open This Year's Japanese Filmfest Eiga Sai

  

  “Departures,” winner of the 2009 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language film, opens this year's Eiga Sai, the Japanese film festival, on July 1 (Friday) at... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2011 CULTURE, MOVIES