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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.

Upstart Productions brings back Off-Broadway smash FORBIDDEN BROADWAY(Greatest Hits), a musical revue that parodies old and new Broadway musicals, at Carlos P. Romulo Theater, RCBC Plaza, Senator Gil Puyat Avenue, Makati City tonight, August 24 and Saturday, August 25.

Diverse City Theater Company's limited run of Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award nominated playwright Lee Blessing's 24-year-old, politically motivated play TWO ROOMS plays its last week at the Lion Theatre at Theater Row on 42nd Street until Friday, August 24.

When he was younger, 2011 BroadwayWorld Philippines Awards' Best Featured Actor in a Musical, Ramon Enrique Mariano aka OJ Mariano always had an interest in the theater arts. At 10 or 11 years old, he and his family would go to Rajah Sulayman Park in Malate, Manila and watch stage plays.

Dulaang Kalay, the campus-based theater organization of Kalayaan College in Quezon City, BroadwayWorld Philippines, Sybex Animal Health & Nutrition, and Global Nutrition International are giving away two (2) tickets to the one-day-only staging of Stephen Mallatratt's psychological period thriller THE WOMAN IN BLACK (based on the novel of the same name by Susan Hill) at Teatrino, Promenade, Greenhills on Friday, August 31.

A day before the musical opened, Repertory Philippines' THE WIZARD OF OZ held a press preview at Greenbelt One's Onstage Theatre with Cara Barredo as Dorothy Gale, along with James Stacey as the Scarecrow, Hans Eckstein as the Tin Man, and Oliver Usison as the Lion.

Ballet Philippines, one of the resident dance companies of the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP), has just released publicity shots, featuring pop stars Christian Bautista and Karylle Tatlonghari, for its year-end revival of ballet musical "Rama Hari," which runs at the CCP main theater from Friday, November 30 until Sunday, December 9.

Tanghalang Pilipino, the resident theater company of the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) opened its 26th season with Severino Reyes' immortal sarsuwela WALANG SUGAT last Thursday, August 16 at CCP's Tanghalang Aurelio V. Tolentino. Highly esteemed film director Carlos Siguion-Reyna helms the production, and makes his stage directorial debut.

Repertory Philippines (Rep) released its publicity photos for "The Wizard of Oz," music by Jean Bargy and Jim Eiler, and book and lyrics by Eiler, which runs at Onstage Theatre at Greenbelt One, Ayala Malls, Makati City for five months, from today, August 18 to Sunday, December 16.

New BroadwayWorld.com Poll - What is your favorite song from THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA?

At BroadwayWorld we pride ourselves in showcasing theater content from all corners of the globe. Our regional contributors do an amazing job each day of bringing you the latest theater news in their cities and countries and to acknowledge this, we launched a new weekly column called 'Around BWW: Regional Highlights of the Week'. Read on for our most-read features, interviews, breaking news and more for the week of August 13!

Lunchbox Theatrical Productions, David Atkins Enterprise, Radio High Definition, Concertus Manila, and Diamond Hotel recently held a press conference to introduce Anthony Downing (Raoul), Claire Lyon (Christine), Jonathan Roxmouth (Phantom), and Dondi Ong (Piangi) - the main cast of the international touring production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA that will premiere at the Cultural Center of the Philippines' main theater next Saturday, August 25, and will run until Sunday, September 30.

Dulaang Kalay, the campus-based theater organization of Kalayaan College in Quezon City, has just released the official posters for the performing arts group's one-day-only staging of Stephen Mallatratt's psychological period thriller THE WOMAN IN BLACK (based on the novel of the same name by Susan Hill) at Teatrino, Promenade, Greenhills on Friday, August 31, 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. To be directed by William Elvin Manzano, THE WOMAN IN BLACK will star Jeremy Domingo and Reb Atadero.

Tanghalang Pilipino, the resident theater company of the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP), opens its 26th season with Severino Reyes' immortal Filipino sarsuwela 'Walang Sugat' at CCP's Tanghalang Aurelio V. Tolentino from tonight, August 16 to 26. Highly esteemed film director Carlos Siguion-Reyna helms the production, and makes his stage directorial debut.

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.

THE BOURNE LEGACY, the fourth installment of the multi-billion dollar spy movie franchise, which topped the weekend box office in North America just last weekend, has found a bona fide action star in Jeremy Renner; a sweltering, bustling action sequence location in Manila whose climactic chase scenes ­on foot, in car, and on motorcycle add "visceral kick to the chaos," according to Wired Magazine; and a slew of talented Philippine-based theater, film, and television actors ­- John Arcilla, Madelaine Nicolas, Ruby Ruiz, Anne Garcia, Lou Veloso, and Adrian Talinga, among others - that share brief yet considerably memorable scenes with Renner and the film's leading lady, Rachel Weisz.

'Le Malade Imaginaire/Le Praning Du Sining' features Stella Cañete, Martha Comia, Joshua Deocareza, Angelina Kanapi, Russel Legaspi, Issa Litton, Daniel Marx, Miguel Mendoza, Elle Velasco with Joel Saracho and Reuben Uy playing Arman and Argan, respectively. Directed by George de Jesus III, 'Le Malade Imaginaire' will have shows tonight, August 15 and August 17, and 18 and Le Praning Du Sining on August 22, 24, and 25, 2012 at the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde School of Design & Arts (CSB-SDA) Theater, 5th Floor CSB-SDA Building in Vito Cruz St., Manila.

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.

At BroadwayWorld we pride ourselves in showcasing theater content from all corners of the globe. Our regional contributors do an amazing job each day of bringing you the latest theater news in their cities and countries and to acknowledge this, we are launching a new weekly column called 'Around BWW: Regional Highlights of the Week'. Read on for this week's edition of BWW's regional highlights!

International television stars Christian Bautista and Karylle Tatlonghari, who recently appeared in THE KITCHEN MUSICAL, a Singaporean musical drama television series, and who first shared the musical theater stage via a local production of Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim's WEST SIDE STORY several years ago, will lend their star power to Ballet Philippines' revival of ballet musical RAMA HARI from Friday, November 30 to Sunday, December 9 at the CCP Main Theater.