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Multi-awarded playwright-director Floy Quintos breaks away from his self-imposed retirement from the theater to usher in Dulaang Unibersidad ng Pilipinas's 45th theatrical season with his one-act play 'The Reconciliation Dinner.'

Multi-awarded playwright-director Floy Quintos breaks away from his self-imposed retirement from the theater to usher in Dulaang Unibersidad ng Pilipinas’s 45th theatrical season with his one-act play 'The Reconciliation Dinner.'

Tanghalang Pilipino (TP) and the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) team up with ABS-CBN's streaming app iWant in bringing six previously-staged TP productions online through 'Pantawid ng Tanghalan,' a fundraiser that seeks to sustain the theater company's commitment in bringing socially-relevant productions to the public amid the pandemic. These productions will be available on iWant from 12 June to 12 July 2020.

There are brief moments in the first act that make it difficult to hold your interest in the play, but the second act is much more fast-paced. As secrets are slowly revealed, the audience gets more involved in the story.

THE KUNDIMAN PARTY deserves this rerun, especially now we're on post-midterm elections. The play with music, a cultural-political drama, written by Floy Quintos and directed by Dexter Santos, has never been more relevant.

Imagine yourself in a small room where you can watch people in their most unguarded moments and listen to their innermost, basest desires without any burden or worry of getting caught… Imagine yourself doing what you love doing with no cares for time and space… Imagine yourself in a dressing room where the ethereal meets the corporal, and the objects of your voyeuristic eyes are actresses prepping up for their roles prior to their cues on stage.

There is something amazing about a playwright who can create a play that has an entire act in mime. There is something more amazing about a theater company who can pull off that play.

Michael Frayn's outrageously funny three-act play NOISES OFF is now playing at Repertory Philippines (Rep), the country's premier English-language theater company behind recent hits 'August: Osage County' and 'Wait Until Dark.'

Michael Frayn's outrageously funny three-act play NOISES OFF is next on the agenda of Repertory Philippines (Rep), the country's premier English-language theater company behind recent hits "August: Osage County" and "Wait Until Dark."

Dulaang UP has recently presented the English and Filipino translations of Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull," which evokes thoughtful discussions about life, ambition, love, and art in a manner devoid of melodrama.

BroadwayWorld (BWW) Philippines Awards' nominees Menchu Lauchengco-Yulo (Best Leading Actress [Musical] for 'Next to Normal'); Jay Glorioso (Best Leading Actress [Play] for 'Love, Loss, and What I Wore'); Vince Tañada (Best Direction of a Musical and Best Leading Actor [Musical] for 'Cory ng EDSA'); Frances Makil Ignacio (Best Actress in a Featured Role [Play] for 'The Joy Luck Club'); and 'Cory ng EDSA' (Best Musical) were big winners at the 24th Aliw Awards, an award-giving body that recognizes excellence among Filipino practitioners in the fields of theater, opera, dance, live vocal performance, and instrumental performance.

Congratulations to BroadwayWorld.com (BWW) Philippines Awards' nominees, whose names are below, and were shortlisted from around 500 nomination entries sent from October 6 to 31.

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.