PHILIPPINES THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 18

Throughout the Philippines, at least 34 major theatrical productions scheduled for 2020 were either cut short or canceled because of the Coronavirus pandemic.

Juan Ekis and Duende Theatre will stream songs from the space adventure musical, Xander: Pulis Pangkalawakan, with lyrics by Palanca award-winning writer Christian Vallez (also known as X or Juan Ekis, his pen name) and music by Ian Amane.

Repertory Philippines (REP) gives you the chance to explore the world of theater from your home via REP's Workshops for the Performing Arts.

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-relev

Due to an overwhelming response, Atlantis Theatrical has decided to add more slots to its a?oevirtuala?? musical theater program this June 2020.

When beleaguered by grief and guilt, where do you draw strength to carry on with your sworn duty as a senior frontliner? a?' Tanghalang Pilipino

Community theater company Broadway Youth Cebu (BYC), which trains homegrown talents, recently held its annual musical theater boot camp showcase via a virtual Broadway revue, now available on YouTube.

For its 10th anniversary, Upstart Productions (Company, Spamalot) organizes an online mini-concert to benefit the people working behind the scenes, whose livelihoods have also been affected by the current health crisis.

The coronavirus pandemic may have caused stage productions to prematurely close, but Tanghalang Pilipino (TP), the resident theater company of the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP), has prepared a slew of programs on its temporary home a?' the digital platform.

'Filipinos are one of the friendliest and most thoughtful people I know.

Leapin' Lizards! ANNIE THE MUSICAL auditions from home will continue until the third week of April 2020.

New theater group #NothingStopsTheTHEATRE invites you to the virtual premiere of its short play Broken Emma: An Online Play About Absurd Reality on Facebook and YouTube tonight, 7 p.

Mentors and students at Golden Sun Performing Arts Center (GSPA) have released a cover version of a?oeWhen You Believea?? from the Dreamworks animated film The Prince of Egypt, whose film-to-stage adaptation recently opened in London.

Given the recent developments on COVID-19 and the government's mandated community quarantine, GMG Productions, along with GWP Entertainment and Virtus Live, has announced that the remaining performances of Roald Dahl's Matilda The Musical have been canceled.

In light of President Rodrigo Duterte's public address regarding measures to contain the spread of COVID-19 in the country, Repertory Philippines' (REP) has announced that tonight's opening and all performances of Nilo Cruz's Anna in the Tropics have been canceled.

Good musicals are like magnets a?' they attract crowds from near and far that not even pervasive talks of a global pandemic could stop them from inflicting their charm on their willing patrons.

Noted production designer Joey Mendoza makes his directorial debut in Repertory Philippines' (REP) production of Nilo Cruz's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, Anna in the Tropics.

DLSU Harlequin Theatre Guild, the premier theater organization of De La Salle University (DLSU), is proud to present DuLa Salle 2k19: Bogus Pokus, which is made up of seven plays.

When Matilda The Musical premiered at the Cambridge Theatre in the West End in 2011, The Guardian gave it five stars and described it as a?oeanarchically joyous, gleefully nasty, and an ingenious musical adaptation of Roald Dahl's novel of the same name.

The best-selling book and winner of the National Book Award for Fiction Novel in Filipino in 2015, Si Janus Silang at ang Tiyanak ng Tabon, written by Edgar Calabia Samar, has been adapted into a stage play, bearing the same title, runs this weekend at St.

Tanghalang Pilipino (TP) stages Malou Jacob's Batang Mujahideen as part of its 33rd season, titled a?oeMakidigma.

Winner of 10 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, The Band's Visit makes its international premiere in the capital of the Philippines on 13 March 2020.

Winner of 10 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, The Band's Visit makes its international premiere in the capital of the Philippines on 13 March 2020.

IT'S GONNA BE GOOD! Pulitzer Prize-winning Next to Normal, which features the book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey and music by Tom Kitt, closes Ateneo Blue Repertory's (BlueREP) 28th theatrical season.

Joey Mendoza considers himself a private man.