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Fire at Star City Delays Gantimpala's KANSER
by Oliver Oliveros - Oct 1, 2019

The Star Theatre in the Star City complex, an amusement park, in Pasay City is currently closed to the public after a fire broke out in the morning hours of Wednesday, 2 October.

Photo Coverage: Take a First Look at Gantimpala's KANSER 2019; Show Plays the Star Theatre, 3 Oct.
by Oliver Oliveros - Sep 29, 2019

Igniting patriotism from its mostly high school student audience whose occasional exclamations and shrieks during Crisostomo Ibarra and Maria Clara's more intimate moments in the play were, we suppose, uncontainable, Gantimpala Theater Foundation's Kanser, a theatrical adaptation of National Hero Jose Rizal's famous first novel Noli Me Tangere, is back for a limited run. It plays the Star Theatre in Pasay City this Thursday, 3 October.

Stage One How I Love You, Stage Two The Human Heart Now Available For Download
by Gabrielle Sierra - Mar 25, 2010

In 1996, DINK Records released a compendium of musical theater love songs from Gershwin, Sondheim, Porter, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Herman, Kern,..., with a twist. Sung between men, with no lyric alterations (including pronouns), 'Stage 1 How I Love You' was, as Out Magazine described 'a dream no longer deferred.'