ENTERTAINMENT NEWS, REVIEWS
After a season of high-octane blockbuster hits, 9 Works Theatrical is shifting gears. In a move that promises to trade spectacle for raw, evocative storytelling, the company has announced its next major production: YEMAYA.
In collaboration with Eastern Communications and Tunog at Liwanag sa Teatro Inc. (TLT), Teatro Meron presents Ang Medea, National Artist Rolando Tinio’s Filipino adaptation of Euripides’ classic tragedy Medea. The production marks a bold fusion of intellect, artistry, and human emotion, bridging myth and modern reflection.
On its 91st season, the Far Eastern University Theater Guild (FTG) stages a bold, interactive dark comedy: Karne, written and directed by the Philippine Educational Theater Association’s (PETA) Senior Artist-Teacher and the FTG’s artistic director, Dudz Teraña.
Maxie is back—and this time, she’s all grown up. Dalaga na si Maxie Oliveros: A Drag Musical Extravaganza marks the dazzling return of one of Filipino pop culture’s most beloved queer icons in a spectacular new immersive production running from June 13 to 22, 2025 at Illumination Studio, Makati City.
After mounting critically-acclaimed productions of Little Shop of Horrors: A Bloodthirsty Musical Comedy and Next to Normal, The Sandbox Collective continues its 2025 season with SIDE SHOW: THE MUSICAL this July 2025.
TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS will feature Calzado in the role of Sugar. She will be joined by three other cast members who will lend epistolary voices to the letter writers.
Joining Calzado are Rody Vera, Gabby Padilla and Ketchup Eusebio as the letter writers. Rounding out the cast are Gawad Buhay awardees Regina De Vera and Brian Sy (swing/letter writer at certain performances).
MONUMENTO 1896 ReviewWritten by Jenny Simon, adapted and directed for theater by Rodel J. Mercado Theater has always been a platform to tell stories, to push advocacies, to reconnect with our past, our history, to speak truth about the society. It is and will always be political but what’s also important is that is should …
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