Reuben Uy News

East West Players (EWP), the nation's largest producing organization of Asian American artistic work and the longest-running professional theatre of color in the country, concludes its 48th Anniversary Season Making Light, with 'Beijing Spring,' lyrics by Tim Dang and music by Joel Iwataki. Tim Dang is directing, Noriko Olling Wright is musical director, and choreographer is Marcus Choi.

East West Players (EWP), the nation's largest producing organization of Asian American artistic work and the longest-running professional theatre of color in the country, concludes its 48th Anniversary Season Making Light, with 'Beijing Spring,' lyrics by Tim Dang and music by Joel Iwataki. Tim Dang is directing, Noriko Olling Wright is musical director, and choreographer is Marcus Choi.

Reuben Uy ("The King and I," "Altar Boyz"), who is originally from Manila, Philippines, plays the role of Laertes in TE San Pedro Rep's production of William Shakespeare's "Hamlet," which runs until December 21, directed by Martin Jago.

Atlantis Productions (Disney's "Aladdin," "Rock of Ages") kicks off its new theater season with British playwright Pam Gem's reworked version of her original late '70s play 'Piaf,' which is a bio-drama with music based on the life and career of Edith Piaf, one of France's most popular performers during World War II.

Atlantis Productions kicks off its new theater season with British playwright Pam Gem's reworked version of her original late '70s play "Piaf," which is a bio-drama with music based on the life and career of Edith Piaf, one of France's most popular performers during World War II.

'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.

'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 on August 15, 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.

Repertory Philippines' current 45th theater season reaches fever pitch with the premiere of composer Frank Wildhorn and book writer and lyricist Leslie Bricusse's overtly melodramatic, pop rock-laden Broadway musical JEKYLL AND HYDE. However, Menchu Lauchengco-Yulo, director for JEKYLL AND HYDE, along with her team, seems to have been rising above the original Broadway production's bad reputation since the local production opened last weekend. Whereas American critics find Wildhorn's body of work as "gallumphing, dunderheaded musicals that make everything by Andrew Lloyd Webber seems like great art," says Linda Winer of 'Newsday'; Filipino critics find Repertory Philippines' stripped-down incarnation of Wildhorn's most popular undertaking as nothing short of a miracle. "By doing away with the stage spectacle [without the high-tech gimmickry that marked its Broadway run], the focus was redirected to the actors - and rightly so," says Vladimir Bunoan of ABS-CBNNews.com.

I just have to write about Lara Fabregas; she's my kind of a leading lady of the theater: enigmatic, elusive, complex, sultry, and divine. If she were to star as Hedda Gabler, the original, quintessential "desperate housewife" in Henrik Ibsen's 1890 play, in the big city, which versatile and accomplished actresses Cate Blanchett and Mary-Louise Parker did in 2006 and 2009, respectively, I'd be the first to fall in line for show tickets. Alas, Ms. Fabregas' much-awaited stage comeback after almost seven years is happening back home in Manila. At times like these, I wish I were a bridge that could stretch across the Pacific.

I just have to write about Lara Fabregas; she's my kind of a leading lady of the theater: enigmatic, elusive, complex, sultry, and divine. If she were to star as Hedda Gabler, the original, quintessential "desperate housewife" in Henrik Ibsen's 1890 play, in the big city, which versatile and accomplished actresses Cate Blanchett and Mary-Louise Parker did in 2006 and 2009, respectively, I'd be the first to fall in line for show tickets. Alas, Ms. Fabregas' much-awaited stage comeback after almost seven years is happening back home in Manila. At times like these, I wish I were a bridge that could stretch across the Pacific.

BROADWAYWORLD Philippines attended the opening night of Tanghalang Pilipino's newest production of Tennessee Williams' 1947 Pulitzer Prize-winning play A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE on October 9, 2009. Veteran stage actress ANA ABAD SANTOS played the iconic role of Blanche Dubois opposite singer/actor REUBEN UY essayed the brooding, bestial Stanley Kowalski.

The Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Tanghalang Pilipino will present bilingual performances of Tennessee Williams' 1947 Pulitzer Prize-winning play A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE starting October 9th ‘til the 25th at the CCP Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino, CCP Complex, Manila.

The Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Tanghalang Pilipino will present bilingual performances of Tennessee Williams' 1947 Pulitzer Prize-winning play A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE starting October 9th ‘til the 25th at the CCP Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino, CCP Complex, Manila.