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Watch the first-ever The Outstanding Filipino Americans (TOFA) Awards' virtual ceremony, hosted by 'Asia's King of Talk' Boy Abunda, via BroadwayWorld.com.

In celebration of Filipino American (Fil-Am) History Month, 100 movers and shakers of Filipino descent will be feted in a digital ceremony through The Outstanding Filipino Americans (TOFA) Awards, a national award-giving body. The TOFA Awards, which have been customarily held annually at Carnegie Hall, also turn 10 this month. To mark this milestone, the TOFA Awards are honoring their list of “100 Most Influential Fil-Am Individuals and Organizations” or #TOFA100 on Saturday, October 31, 2020, at 9 p.m. EST (Sunday, at 9 a.m. PST) via YouTube and Facebook.

About seven months into the pandemic lockdown, Gerald Santos ('Miss Saigon,' 'Sweeney Todd'), together with his closest friends in the performing arts, is not missing a beat. He's now back on his feet, singing his heart out before an audience who are supposedly elsewhere a?' most likely in front of the computer screen.

Recently signed up with Warner Music Group, theater royalty, and multi-talented artist Nicole Laurel Asensio gives us a peek at her latest single 'Silong.' On the back burner for years, the single, according to the singer-songwriter, is now ripe for the picking – even amid the pandemic.

he mythological creature Bakunawa, a serpent-like dragon, is front and center in Marikina City-based Teatro ni Juan's new musical. Supplemented by BKNW Rising, the musical is introduced in a three-part online anthology featuring early drafts and demos. Check out BKNWRising.com.

'Empire State is privileged to honor outstanding Filipinos.' - Governor Andrew Cuomo

Bianca Lopez, a soprano and theater actress, offers private vocal coaching online. Lopez, an alumna of the Philippine Madrigal Singers, was recently seen in Noli Me Tangere, The Opera and Stephen Sondheim's Company. She holds a diploma in Creative and Performing Musical Arts, major in Voice, from the University of the Philippines' College of Music.

When beleaguered by grief and guilt, where do you draw strength to carry on with your sworn duty as a senior frontliner? a?' Tanghalang Pilipino

Community theater company Broadway Youth Cebu (BYC), which trains homegrown talents, recently held its annual musical theater boot camp showcase via a virtual Broadway revue, now available on YouTube. The 40-minute revue features this year's batch of young workshoppers, below the age of 19, who will also perform in a licensed production of Hairspray Jr. on 8-9 August 2020.

For its 10th anniversary, Upstart Productions (Company, Spamalot) organizes an online mini-concert to benefit the people working behind the scenes, whose livelihoods have also been affected by the current health crisis.

'It can be boring or sad nowadays with what is happening to the world, but a bit of 'theater glitter' can liven up the day and make your kids learn something awesome and have fun at the same time!a??'a?' Dramaversity.com

'Filipinos are one of the friendliest and most thoughtful people I know. I instantly warmed up to them when I landed in Manila. That's why it was sad when we were forced to cut our stay short.' a?' Hayden Tee

Leapin' Lizards! ANNIE THE MUSICAL auditions from home will continue until the third week of April 2020.

New theater group #NothingStopsTheTHEATRE invites you to the virtual premiere of its short play Broken Emma: An Online Play About Absurd Reality on Facebook and YouTube tonight, 7 p.m.

Mentors and students at Golden Sun Performing Arts Center (GSPA) have released a cover version of a?oeWhen You Believea?? from the Dreamworks animated film The Prince of Egypt, whose film-to-stage adaptation recently opened in London.

After our fight against COVID-19, Gerald Santos, Miss Saigon UK-Ireland Tour alum, anticipates a re-energized global theater industry – brimming with outstanding productions more vibrant than ever before. In the wake of the current COVID-19 pandemic, both Broadway and West End productions have shut down - relegating theater practitioners: actors, dancers, and production crew, among others, to their homes to self-isolate.

Given 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.

In light of President Rodrigo Duterte's public address regarding measures to contain the spread of COVID-19 in the country, Repertory Philippines' (REP) has announced that tonight's opening and all performances of Nilo Cruz's Anna in the Tropics have been canceled.

When 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.

The best-selling book and winner of the National Book Award for Fiction Novel in Filipino in 2015, Si Janus Silang at ang Tiyanak ng Tabon, written by Edgar Calabia Samar, has been adapted into a stage play, bearing the same title, runs this weekend at St. Mary's College in Quezon City.