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• Announcement: Virgin Labfest 8 Finalists

  From Virgin Labfest head Tuxqs Rutaquio: One-act category • Isa Pang Soap Opera, REUEL AGUILA • Digital Divide, RICARDO NOVENARIO • High Stakes,... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2012 CULTURE

• Upstart Productions' Forbidden Broadway Opens May 11--schedule of Guest Stars...

  

  “The funniest show in New York” (The New Yorker) that has been leaving critics and audiences in stitches since its debut in 1982 is now, on its 30th anniversary... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2012 CULTURE

• Once Broadway to Hollywood, Now Hollywood to Broadway

  It used to be that the musicals came first before the movie adaptations (South Pacific, The King and I, The Sound of Music, West Side Story, My Fair Lady,... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2012 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Screenwriting and Playwriting Workshops at MINT College

  

  Meridian International (MINT) College and professional screenwriter/playwright Dang Bagas have teamed up for two exciting summer programs under the Theater... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2012 SCHOOLING

• Dulaang UP Holds May 3-4 Auditions for Noli Me Tangere: The Opera Restaging

  

  Dulaang UP opens its 37th season with the restaging of the critically-acclaimed operatic retelling by Felipe Padilla de Leon of Rizal's "Noli Me Tangere". The... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2012 CULTURE

• Barbra by Way of Beyonce

  Happy 70th, Barbra! (Yep, today, Tuesday, April 24.) But this post is really for The Hubi, who laughs at my seeming mastery of the Streisand life and songbook... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2012 CULTURE, MUSIC

• CCP Hosts Management Intensives for Arts Managers and Board Members, May 25-26

  

  The Cultural Center of the Philippines, in cooperation with the US Embassy of Manila, is organizing the Management Intensives for Arts Managers and Board Member... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2012 CULTURE

• PBB Alumnus Ivan Dorschner Joins Gantimpala Theater’s Summer Musical Workshop

  

  From Nickie Wang: Former Pinoy Big Brother Housemate and Star Magic talent Ivan Dorschner participates in the 35th Gantimpala Theater Summer Workshop--Musical... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2012 CULTURE

• Dulaang UP Summer Theater Workshops April 17-May 17, 2012

  

  Learn the basics of acting, directing, stage movement, voice, makeup and more from some of the biggest names in the local theater world by joining Dulaang UP’s... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2012 CULTURE

• The Scream

  

  Tarana (R), 12, reacts while surrounded by the bodies of men, women and children who died after a suicide bomber detonated a bomb during a religious ceremony... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2012 CULTURE

• Thanks to Aegis--no, Really--a ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ That Works

  

  Philippine Daily Inquirer, 04.16.2012 Rep’s taut, surprisingly tender production, directed by Menchu Lauchengco-Yulo, sidesteps camp “IT’S ONLY A PONYTAIL that... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2012 CULTURE

• The Old Figure Ate Shawie Tweeted About

  In a series of messages to her fans via Twitter early Tuesday, megastar Sharon Cuneta poured her heart out and admitted that she was “sad” about her current... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2012 CULTURE

• Tanghalang Ateneo Holds Auditions for Sintang Dalisay Rerun

  

  Tanghalang Ateneo's season-opener, the rerun of "Sintang Dalisay" by G.D. Roke, will be holding open auditions on April 19 and 20, 2012, 4:30-7 p.m., at the Fin... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2012 CULTURE

• Fabcast! Ex-men--all About the Exes

  

  Or as Corporate Closet explains: Ah... The Ex-Boyfriend. What do we do with them? with their memories? This fabcast started with a simple question posed. Do... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2012 CULTURE

• Spell Trompe L'oeil

  

  Or just say “Amazing!” Because Kurt Wenner's art is exactly that. Though it's no longer plain trompe l'oeil (“a style of painting in which objects are depicted... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2012 CULTURE

• Walang Sugat--a Refresher

  Need to brush up on the Severino Reyes-Fulgencio Tolentino sarsuwela Walang Sugat for the audition below? Here are four major musical moments I recorded (with... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2012 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• At last--The Phantom of the Opera in Manila, Aug. 25-Oct. 14, at the CCP

  

  The world’s most successful musical, and the longest-running show on Broadway, “The Phantom of the Opera,” will be staged in Manila for a strictly limited seaso... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2012 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Auditions for Four Upcoming Shows by Tanghalang Pilipino

  Auditions for Tanghalang Pilipino’s 26th Theater Season productions will be held on two Sundays, April 15 and 22, 2012, 1-8 p.m. Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2012 CULTURE

• In Historic Collaboration, PETA and Rep Team up for Care Divas Rerun

  

  Why historic? Because, while Cecile Guidote Alvarez's Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA), also founded in 1967, became the foremost exponent of... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2012 CULTURE

• More Classes, More Teachers and More Fun at Trumpets Playshop 2012

  

  TRUMPETS Playshop is setting up its tents once again at The Podium, Alabang Town Center, Shangri-La Plaza Mall and Global City, calling on everyone adventurous... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2012 CULTURE