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Repertory Philippines' 73rd Season Valentine offering is Mark Saltzman's musical comedy ROMEO & BERNADETTE.

Repertory Philippines (Rep), the country's premier professional theatre company, holds open auditions for their new production of Peter Shaffer's psychodrama EQUUS on Monday, March 8, 2010, 5-9 p.

Repertory Philippines' critically acclaimed production of Mark Saltzman's comedy musical ROMEO & BERNADETTE will have its last performances at the OnStage Theatre, Greenbelt 1, Makati City on February 26 to 28, 2010.

Ateneo Blue Repertory (blueREP), one of Manila's most active school-based musical theatre organizations, presents Off-Broadway comedy ZANNA, DON'T (a musical fairy tale) from February 17 to March 6, 2010 at the Rizal Mini Theatre, Ateneo de Manila University campus.

Repertory Philippines, the country's premier professional theatre company, has garnered a total of 18 nominations at the 2009 'Gawad Buhay!' Philstage Awards for the Performing Arts.

DEFENDING THE CAVEMAN, Broadway's smash one-man comedy about men and women, premieres at the Insular Life Auditorium in Alabang, South of Manila on Valentine's weekend, February 13 to 14, 2010.

Manila musical theatre fans are expected to flock to the Rockwell Tent on Valentine's Day to witness first-hand a rare, back-to-back tandem of siblings Raymond Lauchengco ('King and I,' 'Rama at Sita') and Menchu Lauchengco-Yulo ('Miss Saigon,' 'Sweeney Todd') in a concert dubbed 'Sibling Revelry.

Shuttling between countries for 13-year old ingénue Julia Abueva ('Children's Letters to God,' 'The Fantasticks') is a normal commute for Pocketful of Kids' young creative consultant for their ENCORE! musical theater program.

Repertory Philippines' 73rd Season Valentine offering is Mark Saltzman's musical comedy ROMEO & BERNADETTE.

Repertory Philippines' 73rd Season Valentine offering is Mark Saltzman's ROMEO & BERNADETTE (a 'camp meets opera' take-off from good old Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet').

Repertory Philippines' 73rd Season Valentine offering is Mark Saltzman's musical comedy ROMEO & BERNADETTE.

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9 Works Theatrical's new production of Jonathan Larson's phenomenal '90s musical RENT is set to open this weekend in Manila.

The International British Academy (IBA) is staging Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's second British musical collaboration JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT at the Insular Life Corporate Centre Auditorium in Alabang, Muntinlupa, South of Manila on February 4 and 5, 2010.

New productions of Jonathan Larson's Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical RENT are about to open in Manila, the San Francisco East Bay and New Jersey.

Peter Quilter's (End Of The Rainbow, Glorious!) DUETS premiered in Atlanta, U.

Tony Award-winning composer Jason Robert Brown (Parade, 13, Songs for a New World) joined 2009 Ovation Award nominees Michael K.

Filipino-American actress Arielle Jacobs is currently playing the lead role of Nina Rosario in the first national tour of Tony and Grammy-winning musical IN THE HEIGHTS.

V-Day 2010 Campaign Event to 'stop violence against women and girls' and V-Day New York 'Healing Through Music' announce its second auditions for Eve Ensler's Obie award-winning play THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES to be staged at the Philippine Consulate in New York on Fifth Avenue on April 10, 2010, Saturda

For 2010, Repertory Philippines has picked an exciting selection of shows sure to stimulate local theatergoers.

The Marie Eugenie Theatre of the Assumption (METTA) resumes its production of fast-paced and campy Off-Broadway comedy THE MYSTERY OF IRMA VEP on January 21 to 23, 2010 at the newly-opened Assumption Black Box Theater, 5/F Marie Eugenie Building, Assumption College, Lorenzo Village, Makati City in M

Tony winner Lea Salonga is singing the theme song 'Lipad' (Fly) of Filipino animated feature 'Dayo: Sa Mundo ng Elementalia' (Wanderer in the World of Elementalia), which premieres on Cinema One cable television on December 27, Sunday at 8 p.

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These brand new recordings, done in a sweeping, easy listening manner, effortlessly succeed with Gemora's rich baritone and heartfelt renditions.

Philippine Daily Inquirer writer and theater critic Gibbs Cadiz cites local productions of Friedrich von Schiller's 'Mary Stuart' and Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's 'The Threepenny Opera' as best plays of 2009 in his annual 'Bravo! Best of Theater' roundup.