Directed by DUP Artistic Director Alexander Cortez, Noli Me Tangere brings the audience the exciting world of the opera with two pianos, the songs, and the powerful voices and acting of the artists. This production promises to be a feast for the senses in-spite of its modest scale. Young opera singers from various music conservatories [...]

By Rody Vera I was asked to write a paper about Playwriting during Martial Law. And since I’m not an academician, I’ve decided to write about my own story instead. So this paper is more of a personal account of what I went through as a young impressionable, idealistic playwright during the years of the dictatorship, [...]

By Marili F. Ilagan

Yupanaw yang kanak lumon nga usog ngadi sangaon. Laong niya way kausbawan ngadi sa taas. Laong niya tukay sang baba yang kausbawan. Laong ko daw mali siya. Laong ko daw di paras ngadi sa taas yang baba… Iibanan ko yang kanak ama pati ina ngadi hangtud yukani yang mga yaka-unipormeng usog. Yagda silan [...]

“Uyayi sa Digmaan,” as “play within a play,” is an interchange of the scenes of the drama Norhaina, which Teatro Pagariya rehearses, and the off-scene moments between Raizza and Kurt who are the lead actors in the play. The dramatic and real life, as it were, dialectics on stage is what provides momentum in the [...]

By Josefina Pedroza “WE did not expect it to be a huge production,” said Nikki Torrres of the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Performing Arts Department who spoke in the forum following the 45-minute production of “Uyayi sa Digmaan” at the Tanghalang Huseng Batute on December 4, 2008. And huge it appeared indeed. There was [...]

Kaalam sa Dramaturgong Kaliwatan: Post-modern Philosophical Roots, Underpinnings, and Perspectives of the Mindanawon Theatre Movement 1 by Karl M. Gaspar, CSsR Maayong buntag! INTRODUCTION First of all, I would like to thank the organizers of this conference for the distinct privilege of addressing all of you this morning. When Waldolito Nestor…[Read more]

Ang “Pagsambang Bayan,” klasikong dulang kontra-batas militar ni Bonifacio P. Ilagan, sa direksyon ni Behn Cervantes, ay itinanghal ng Tag-ani Performing Arts Society kaugnay ng February Arts Month, sa pagtataguyod ng National Commission for Culture and the Arts. Ipinalabas ito sa Tanghalang Batute ng Cultural Center of the Philippines at sa…[Read more]

Orosman at Zafira by Francisco Baltazar Direction: Dexter M. Santos Play date: August 11-29, 2010 Venue: Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero Theater Shock Value … Take 2 By: Floy Quintos Direction: Alexander C. Cortez Playdate: September 8-26, 2010 Venue: Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero Theater !–more– Isang Panaginip na Fili By: Floy Quintos Direction: [Read more]

BANAAG AT SIKAT: ISANG ROCK MUSICAL National Artist Projects: Bienvenido Lumbera & Salvador Bernal in cooperation with the NCCA & CCP In an unprecedented move, National Artists Bienvenido Lumbera and Salvador Bernal collaborate on an exciting new musical based on Lope K. Santos’ groundbreaking novel about the breakup of the Filipino family and…[Read more]

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