Philstage sets 2009 Gawad Buhay! rites at CCP on March 26 on Mar 17, 2010 in theater showtime music heritage [Complete list of nominees below] The Philippine Legitimate Stage Artists Group, Inc. (Philstage), in cooperation with the Cultural Center of the Philippines, will confer the 2009 “Gawad Buhay!: the PHILSTAGE Awards for the Performing Arts,” on...
Fabcast!--then a break on Mar 15, 2010 in podcasts music tv/showbiz blogging After a brief rest, McVie has resumed his producing duties for our fabcasts, the latest being part 1 (below) of our walang katapusang despedida for Migs. He's been in the US since January, but before he left we had one more chance to give him a riot...
Why you should moderate your blog's comments on Mar 14, 2010 in blogging readings Because, as you might have noticed by now if you're a Blogger user like me, hackers using botnets (“armies of infected computers,” says this report) have found a way to breach the standard safeguards against spam comments. Not even the extra requ...
Master Class, with Cherie Gil as Maria Callas, returns this July-August on Mar 12, 2010 in theater movies music tv/showbiz What I thought of her performance: [She] was overwhelming in “Master Class,” offering a haunting, crystalline performance that, with barely a raised voice, branded the role of a ruined Maria Callas as hers--spectacularly, indisputably hers--for m...
What is great theater? on Mar 11, 2010 in theater readings Eric Bentley: What is great theatre? The component parts are brains, good taste, fine craftsmanship, high purpose, and so forth and so on, but the whole is greater than the sum of the parts and comes to us as a single impression which is at once inte...
My Talent holds summer workshops at Eastwood City on Mar 11, 2010 in theater showtime music tv/showbiz Now in its third year, My Talent returns this summer to hold performing arts and modeling workshops at Eastwood City, with the theme “My Talent Ka!”. Workshops include Musical Theater, Street Dance, Voice, Pop Concert Performance, Musical Instru...
Dulaang Laboratoryo's Balintuna: Dalawang Palabas ng Kamatayan on Mar 11, 2010 in theater showtime Inihahandog ng Dulaang Laboratoryo (Theater 200) ang “Balintuna: Dalawang Palabas ng Kamatayan” (“Ang Seremonya” at “Balik-tanaw”). Ang “Balik-Tanaw” ay hango sa orihinal na dulang “Happy Days” ni Samuel Beckett, kwento ng tatlo...
Anna Kendrick, before the Oscar breakthrough on Mar 9, 2010 in theater movies music Before Up In the Air, before the string of honors (some 16 citations!) that culminated in an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her fantastic work in that film (I was rooting for her over Mo'nique, and I wanted Up In the Air to...
Video: Magsimula Ka! excerpts--sung by three original cast members on Mar 8, 2010 in theater vlogs music heritage Isay Alvarez, Robert Sena and Tricia Amper-Jimenez revisit the longest-running Filipino musical of the '80s--and the show that launched their careers in musical theater--with a medley of choice numbers performed during the Pasinaya CCP Open House Fes...
Avenue Q-Manila back at RCBC Theater March 12-27 on Mar 8, 2010 in theater showtime music Atlantis Productions' blockbuster production of "Avenue Q" returns to the Carlos P. Romulo Auditorium, RCBC Plaza, Makati City, from March 12 to 27. Rachel Alejandro is back to reprise her role as Kate Monster/Lucy the Slut, while new cast member Cal...
