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'Shorts & Briefs 9' by EKSENA PH is an independently produced theater festival of short plays (10-12 mins. each) that feature first-time theater practitioners and performers. 'S&B 9' is back to live performances celebrating nine years. The festival features eight plays and original stories from emerging playwrights.

While in rehearsal, young fine actor-influencer Khalil Ramos recently sat down with BroadwayWorld for a short interview, which turned out insightful, grateful, and anxiety-driven, too, brought about by the actor’s 12 years in mainstream show business, marked with occasional highs and lows.

Ayala Land and Samsung’s Samsung Performing Arts Theater at Circuit Makati has just turned one and celebrated this milestone with the launch of its venue grants: a subsidy program given to national artists, professional and community performing arts companies to help realize their creative visions on a world-class theatrical facility, such as the Samsung Performing Arts Theater.

Asia’s songbird Regine Velasquez-Alcasid, who recently staged a series of sold-out solo concerts at the Samsung Performing Arts Theater at Circuit Makati, headlines the famed venue’s concert fundraiser, 'Open Doors,' directed by Floy Quintos.

Nine-time Tony Award nominee & JULIET, a hilarious jukebox musical that looks at one of the greatest love stories ever told, 'Romeo and Juliet,' from a different angle, is set to make its Asia premiere with a diverse international cast: some from ethnic communities, the others from the Philippines and Sri Lanka.

Stage vets Joel Saracho (Dominador) and Rikki Benedicto (Oliver), together with young actor AJ Sison (Edward), own the stage in 'Dominador Gonzales: National Artist,' an entry to the 18th edition of Virgin Labfest, presented by the Cultural Center of the Philippines, The Writer’s Bloc, and Tanghalang Pilipino.

A little over 10 years since Actor's Actors Inc.'s The Necessary Theatre premiered John Logan's Tony Award-winning play 'Red' in Asia, the theater company brings back the two-hander on stage. Bart Guingona still plays the abstract expressionist Mark Rothko, while JC Santos plays his fictional studio assistant Ken, originally played by Joaquin Valdes.

Trained classical voices and contemporary music arrangements breathe new life to Filipino folk songs, kundiman, and arias in Ephesus Teatron Group Inc.’s first major live musical concert in three years, 'Klasical.'

Cebuano actors Yna Cajipe and Emman Casquejo reprise their roles, Jerusha and Jervis, respectively, in the mid-year repeat of the hit musical 'Daddy Long Legs,' directed by Cebu-renowned director Penny Ong.

Shamaine Buencamino and Rissey Reyes-Robinson star in Layeta Bucoy’s 'Tuloy ang Palabas,' an entry to the 18th edition of Virgin Labfest, Set B, presented by the Cultural Center of the Philippines, The Writer’s Bloc, and Tanghalang Pilipino.

If you were to stage a 20-year-old two-hander post-pandemic, it’d be a smart move to update its directorial decisions and the script’s words and dialogues, especially with the play’s themes about young love, pre-marital sex, and peer pressure meant to resonate, at the least, with the Gen Zers today.

When The Necessary Theatre gathered the media to officially launch its 2023 production of John Logan’s Tony Award-winning play “Red,” its stars Bart Guingona and JC Santos, both raring to return on stage post-pandemic, they also unveiled the production’s official show image or poster.

Theatre Titas ('What’s in the Dark,' 'Macbeth') has officially returned to live performances via Juan Ekis’ (X) 20th-anniversary production of 'Twenty Questions' (20Q), a one-act two-hander play that won second place at the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards in its early years.

Juan Ekis’ 20th anniversary production of his one-act two-hander 'Twenty Questions' is now in full swing at the Mirror Studio Theatre in Poblacion, Makati, on all weekends of May. On its opening weekend, the show’s stars Isabelle Prado (Yumi) and Diego Aranda (Jigs) sat down with BroadwayWorld. They spilled their thoughts on this milestone production, directed by Cheese Mendez and produced by Theatre Titas.

'Miss Saigon' alum Gerald Santos, who gets the chance to play the role of Vietnamese soldier Thuy more than 600 times, has wrapped up his latest 'Miss Saigon' stint with Denmark’s Det Ny Teater (The New Theatre), which has staged a non-replica production of the musical, originally produced by Cameron Mackintosh.

The all-star cast, Alice Reyes Dance Philippines’ dancers, and the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by National Artist for Music Ryan Cayabyab, performed a reprise of the epilogue to 'Ang Larawan, The Musica'” right before the curtain fell on 'Contra Mundum, Ang All-Star Concert ng Ang Larawan' at the Manila Metropolitan Theatre on Saturday, May 6.

Let’s warm up to hit Filipino musical 'Ang Huling El Bimbo’s' (AHEB) third weekend of live performances at the Newport Performing Arts Theatre with the young cast’s rendition of 'With a Smile,' one of the featured songs from the musical.

Manila, Philippines--Lead producers Full House Theater Company and Newport World Resorts have just released all-new production photos from the current restaging of the hit jukebox musical 'Ang Huling El Bimbo' (AHEB), featuring popular songs by the '90s rock band Eraserheads.

Michael Cassel Group, with MTM/Leyline and presenter Base Entertainment Asia led by Chantal Prudhomme, brings one of Broadway’s current hits, & JULIET, to the Sands Theatre, Marina Bay Sands, from Sept. 21 to Oct. 8, 2023. Like Disney’s ALADDIN and FROZEN, & JULIET makes its only stop in Southeast Asia.

Full House Theater Company and Newport World Resorts’ hit jukebox musical “Ang Huling El Bimbo” (AHEB), featuring hefty song selections from the late ‘80s to ‘90s Filipino alternative rock band Eraserheads, held its gala night on Apr. 27, 2023, which officially opened its third run of the beloved musical at the Newport Performing Arts Theatre.