Olive Nieto

International Roots launched their new initiative Ripples to create a global collage of hopes, challenges and the things that matter to people the most. The first four parts of the project saw artists responding at sunrise, noon, sunset and midnight, and the final part will take place at 10.02am, the exact time of the December Solstice.

This weekend, International Roots launched their new initiative Ripples to create a global collage of hopes, challenges and the things that matter to people the most. The project aims to amplify diverse voices across the seven continental time zones by creating a platform for artistic responses to the simple provocation: 'What matters to you?'.

Except his visually engaging take in the finale, legendary director Tony Mabesa remains faithful to Virgilio Almario and Jose Lacaba's Filipino translation of one of National Artist for Literature Nick Joaquin's shortest plays Fathers and Sons ( Mga Ama, Mga Anak ), which runs at the Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero Theatre at the University of the Philippines-Diliman until this Sunday, September 24.

Despite criticisms that this Layeta Bucoy-penned play was loosely based on its celluloid inspiration, Philippine Educational Theater Association's BONA still gratuitously provokes and disturbs its audience.

Philippine Educational Theater Association's (PETA) stage adaptation of the late Filipino film auteur Lino Brocka's "Bona," starring award-winning film actors Eugene Domingo and Edgar Allan Guzman, written by Palanca winner Layeta Bucoy, and directed by theater stalwart Soxie Topacio, opened last Thursday, August 23 at the PETA Theater Center.

A past entry to both Metro Manila Film Festival and Cannes Film Festival, BONA, a critically-acclaimed work of Catalino Ortiz Brocka aka Lino Brocka (1939-1991) that gave the "superstar in Philippine entertainment industry," Nora Aunor, her Best Actress trophy at the Gawad Urian in 1980, will soon come alive through a stage adaptation by Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA) starting today, August 24 until Sunday, September 23 at PETA Theater Center. The stage production stars multi-award-winning theater, movie, and television actress Eugene Domingo.

Award-winning film actors Eugene Domingo and Edgar Allan Guzman, who are currently in the thick of rehearsals for Philippine Educational Theater Association's (PETA) new production of BONA, a stage adaptation of the critically-acclaimed motion picture of the same name, directed by the late Filipino film auteur Lino Brocka, met members of the press and performed excerpts from the play on Tuesday, August 14 at PETA Theater Center.

A past entry to both Metro Manila Film Festival and Cannes Film Festival, BONA, a critically-acclaimed work of Catalino Ortiz Brocka aka Lino Brocka (1939-1991) that gave the "superstar in Philippine entertainment industry," Nora Aunor, her Best Actress trophy at the Gawad Urian in 1980, will soon come alive through a stage adaptation by Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA) starting Friday, August 24 until Sunday, September 23 at PETA Theater Center. The stage production stars multi-award-winning theater, movie, and television actress Eugene Domingo.

Dr. Anton Juan, Jr. ('Joy Luck Club') directs 'Screen: Macbeth,' a new interpretation of William Shakespeare's classic play that merges theatre and film. The University of the Philippines' Department of English and Comparative Literature, in cooperation with the World Theatre Project, presents 'Screen: Macbeth' at the Media Center Studio, College of Mass Communication, University of the Philippines' Diliman campus from Monday, February 28 to Saturday, March 5, 2011.

Dr. Anton Juan, Jr. ('Joy Luck Club') directs 'Screen: Macbeth,' a new interpretation of William Shakespeare's classic play that merges theatre and film. The University of the Philippines' Department of English and Comparative Literature, in cooperation with the World Theatre Project, presents 'Screen: Macbeth' at the Media Center Studio, College of Mass Communication, University of the Philippines' Diliman campus from Monday, February 28 to Saturday, March 5, 2011.

Dr. Anton Juan, Jr. ('Joy Luck Club') directs 'Screen: Macbeth,' a new interpretation of William Shakespeare's classic play that merges theatre and film. The University of the Philippines' Department of English and Comparative Literature, in cooperation with the World Theatre Project, presents 'Screen: Macbeth' at the Media Center Studio, College of Mass Communication, University of the Philippines' Diliman campus from Monday, February 28 to Saturday, March 5, 2011.