When people enter adulthood, dreams often take a backseat to responsibilities. The demands of work, financial stability, and everyday life can make creative pursuits feel out of reach. But for AJ Sison, a social media content producer at Manila Bulletin and an active theater actor, building a...
When first staged in 2023, "Ibarra," as directed by Frannie Zamora and produced by Tanghalang Una Obra, was hailed as a vibrant musical adaptation of Jose Rizal’s "Noli Me Tangere." Flash forward to today, an updated, restaged version with Zamora still at the helm was mounted just the other night...
Long before she became a television host, actress, and performer, Atasha Muhlach was a 9-year-old girl standing under the bright lights of the Newport Performing Arts Theater, playing Brigitta von Trapp in "The Sound of Music." It was her first taste of theater. Her first experience performing...
The strand of global music labeled as Latin Pop is now firmly part of the mainstream. One only has to look at artists like Shakira and Bad Bunny, who regularly perform at major international sporting events, to see how far the genre has come. Even those who are not avid fans would likely recognize...
For longtime supporters of Repertory Philippines, Dale Wasserman’s “Man of La Mancha” is a familiar tale, having had two performances done in the past. This year, it returns under the direction of Nelsito Gomez and stars Nonie Buencamino as a fictionalized version of Spanish author Miguel de...
Several years after making his theater debut in "The Rak of Aegis" in 2019, Derrick Monasterio is returning to theater, stepping into one of Philippine literature’s most iconic roles as Crisostomo Ibarra in the restaging of the 2023 musical play "Ibarra…Ngayon." During our visit to their...
For the longest time, Filipino youth were groomed with the idea that there is no future in pursuing the arts. We are taught that finding a sustainable, fulfilling life in this career path is almost impossible. But that narrative is now changing. Many talented Filipino artists are now embedding...
Full circle moments are rare in any artist’s life. For Pepe Herrera, April 21, 2026, marks a defining milestone: his first major solo concert at the PETA Theater Center, the very space that shaped him as a performer. Long before the bright lights of film and the nationwide reach of television,...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Oscars are leaving Hollywood. In 2029, the year the telecast moves from ABC to YouTube, the ceremony itself will move from its longtime home at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood to downtown Los Angeles and the Peacock Theater, 9 miles (14.5 kilometers) away. The Academy...
It was a gunshot that signaled the beginning—a sound that could immediately trigger fear in anyone. But the hostile noise and the terror that came with it were quickly drowned out—not by crying or panic, but by the fierce and confident rhythm of Whitney Houston’s “Queen of the Night.”...
Filipino theater could be the next key to further strengthening our tourism pull. Local theater figures made this bold statement at the recent Creative Tourism Conference put up by the Tourism Promotions Board. Fitting, as the event was held within the Metropolitan Theater, a location referred to...
The Philippines is now operationalizing Japan’s proposed “one-theater” concept which envisions the South China Sea, East China Sea, and the Korean Peninsula as a single and integrated theater of operations in wartime. Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. said...
