MATILDA THE MUSICAL Forced to Cancel Performances Due to COVID-19March 13, 2020Given the recent developments on COVID-19 and the government's mandated community quarantine, GMG Productions, along with GWP Entertainment and Virtus Live, has announced that the remaining performances of Roald Dahl's Matilda The Musical have been canceled.
PHOTOS: Look at MATILDA THE MUSICAL Cast in Action; Show Runs Now Thru 22 Mar 2020March 9, 2020When Matilda The Musical premiered at the Cambridge Theatre in the West End in 2011, The Guardian gave it five stars and described it as a?oeanarchically joyous, gleefully nasty, and an ingenious musical adaptation of Roald Dahl's novel of the same name.a?? About nine years after, now a beloved musical for all ages, Matilda The Musical finally opened at The Theatre at Solaire in Manila for a limited three-week engagement.
VIDEO: The Cast of THE BAND'S VISIT Preview 'Welcome to Nowhere'March 3, 2020Winner of 10 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, The Band's Visit makes its international premiere in the capital of the Philippines on 13 March 2020. Atlantis Theatrical Entertainment Group's Bobby Garcia helms the production, which the Chicago Tribune describes as a?oeremarkable and boundlessly compassionate and humanistic piece of theater.a??
Photo Coverage: Get a First Look at THE BAND'S VISIT In RehearsalsMarch 3, 2020Winner of 10 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, The Band's Visit makes its international premiere in the capital of the Philippines on 13 March 2020. Atlantis Theatrical Entertainment Group's Bobby Garcia helms the production, which the Chicago Tribune describes as a?oeremarkable and boundlessly compassionate and humanistic piece of theater.a??
NOLI ME TANGERE, THE OPERA Wins Top Prizes at First LEAF AwardsFebruary 21, 2020The 60th-anniversary production of Noli Me Tangere, The Opera, which J&S Productions Inc. premiered in New York City in 2013, and performed to packed audiences at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) in 2017 and 2019, brought home some of the top prizes at the first Philippine Live Entertainment Arts and Festivals Awards (LEAF Awards) held 8 February 2020.
PHOTOS: PETA's UNDER MY SKIN Opens; Cherry Pie Picache Leads the CastFebruary 10, 2020During the whole run of the play, after every end of the show, we will have debriefing and discussion with the audience, which will be facilitated by our actors and partners. We hope that it will further deepen the understanding of HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus).a?? a?" Maribel Legarda, PETA Artistic Director
In BIRDS OF PREY, Harley Quinn Leads a New Squad of Anti-HeroinesFebruary 6, 2020A followup to American superhero movie Suicide Squad (2016), the rip-roaring, also strongly violent, Birds of Prey (And The Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), opens in cinemas, rated R [R-16 in the Philippines], without cuts. Made at a relatively modest $81 million, Birds of Prey expects to be healthy at the box-office, with early favorable enough reviews to boot.
The Lion King's Santino Juan Santiago to Debut as Little Rizal in RIZAL BEHIND BARSFebruary 2, 2020SV Studios Events and Workshop Services' revival production of Rizal Behind Bars revisits Philippine National Hero Dr. Jose Rizal's final moments in prison. What was on his mind at that time? What were his frustrations or fears? Child actor Santino Juan Santiago, who alternates with David Jesu Ferro, was supposed to debut last October 2019 as the show's Little Rizal, but he couldn't. He was on tour, playing Young Simba in Disney's The Lion King in Bangkok, Thailand.
Photo Coverage: In Rehearsal With San Pedro Calungsod The Musical, Starring Gerald SantosJanuary 22, 2020This year, 2020, marks the return of one of the more successful stage musical adaptations about the life and death of Saint Pedro Calungsod (1654 a?' 1672), a young Filipino missionary and the second Filipino saint. Prinstar Music Philippines' production of San Pedro Calungsod The Musical, which features the book and lyrics in English by Antonio Rommel Ramilo and music by Ramilo and pop star-thespian Gerald Santos, kicks off its Manila run this Friday, 24 January 2020, at 3 p.m., at Cuneta Astrodome in Pasay City.