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BILLBOARD HOT 100 HITS OF 2017!
December 14, 2017Here are the Hot 100 Singles of 2017 as ranked by Billboard Magazine. This year-end recap is based on Billboard Hot 100 chart performance during between the weeks from Dec 2016 and Nov...
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Recap of THE MUSIC OF JOSE MARI CHAN: Treasure Trove of Timeless Tunes
December 17, 2017I had known about Jose Mari Chan and his music since I was a child. I had seen him sing a song or two at some special occasions before, notably our silver high school homecoming back...
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Review of TP's LUKOT-LUKOT, BILOG-BILOG: Figuring Finances
December 17, 2017Gwyneth just received P1,200 from her godparents as an early Christmas present. She decides to use this to pay her college application fee. On her way to St. Anne's University though,...
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Recap of UPMAS Homecoming 2017: UPCM 1992 WALAN9 KA2LAD: Emotional and...
December 23, 2017Our UP College of Medicine Class 1992 had been beset with unity problems within our five years in the college, and perhaps even afterwards. Planning for this year's UP Medical Alumni...
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My Yearend Roundup: The BEST of PHILIPPINE THEATER 2017
December 29, 2017For the year 2017, I had seen and written about 53 theater productions: 15 musicals, 21 full-length plays, and 17 one-act plays. I missed a lot of productions in Ateneo because of...
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FLASHBACK Recap and Videos: PETA's SAYAW SABEL (2010)
June 26, 2010This is the 3rd and final event of PETA's East West Danse event which spanned the whole month of June. Of the three shows, it is "Sayaw, Sabel" which had generated the most hype and...
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Review of PETA's 'NIGHT, MOTHER: Devastating Depression
January 24, 2018The 50th year anniversary celebration of PETA began with a blast in March 2017 with the restaging of their massive 2012 box-office hit "Care Divas". In August, PETA had a colorful and...
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Review of Rep Phils' A COMEDY OF TENORS: Doppelganger Distress
January 28, 2018In recent years, Rep had staged a number of Ken wacky comedies written by playwright Ken Ludwig. They did "Shakespeare in Hollywood" in 2011, "Leading Ladies" in 2012, and "The Game's...
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Review of Sandbox/9 Works HIMALA, ISANG MUSIKAL: Phenomenal Production and...
February 10. 2018I first heard about "Himala" the musical play in 2013, when a 10th anniversary concert (MY REVIEW) of the 2003 Tanghalang Pilipino production was staged at the PETA Theater. Before...
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Review of TP's NANG DALAWIN NG PAG-IBIG SI JUAN TAMAD: Laziness, Love and Laughs
February 17, 2018Before this play began, the audience was addressed by Ms. Cecille Joaquin Yasay, a niece of National Artist for Literature Nick Joaquin. She welcomed the audience to this play which...
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Review of DUP's ANG DALAGITA'Y 'SANG BAGAY NA DI-BUO: Suffocating Shame
February 26, 2018(From the Dulaang UP FB page)The original source of this play is a 2013 debut novel by Irish writer Eimear McBride entitled "A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing." In 2014, it was adapted...
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Review of Rep's SILENT SKY: Simple, Scholarly and Stellar
March 4, 2018Aside maybe for Marie Curie, a regular person would be hard-pressed to name any women pioneer of science (in any field) at all. The contributions of women in the history of any of the...
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Review of National Theater's Touring Production of THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF...
March 18, 2018In 2003, "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" was a critically-acclaimed book written by British writer Mark Haddon. 10 years later, Simon Stephens adapted Haddon's story...
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Review of THE LION KING: A Production of Pride and Pleasure!
March 22, 2018"The Lion King" (Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff, 1994) was one of the classic animated Disney films of the 1990s. Up to now, it still holds the current record for the biggest hand-drawn...
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Recap, Videos and Winners List GAWAD BUHAY AWARDS for 2017: "Pag-uusig" and...
April 13, 2018The emcees of the night were Topper Fabregas and Meann Espinosa, both on their third time as emcees of this awards show. The two had comic chemistry throughout that buoyed up energy...
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Review of Rep's ARSENIC AND OLD LACE (2018): A Charming and Chilling Comedy
April 15, 2018I had vague memories of watching the film version of "Arsenic and Old Lace" during one long haul plane ride a few years back. That 1944 film was directed by Frank Capra and starred Cary...
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Review of UPPT"s THE KUNDIMAN PARTY: Championing Culture and Country
April 21, 2018The name of playwright Floy Quintos is a trusted brand of excellence in local theater. For the past three decades or so, he has written some of the most memorably intelligent plays both...
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Recap of PSF THEATER FESTIVAL 2018 (Week 2): PULA, STARS, CONTROL S, THE GALLERY
April 29, 2018This year is the 12th year of Theater Festival by the Philippine Stagers Foundation. This is held for four consecutive Saturdays each summer, and yesterday was the second week Critics...
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Recap of PSF THEATER FESTIVAL 2018 (Week 3): I DIDITH SHOW, TULA NI VITO AT...
May 5, 2018The PSF Theater Festival is not only a forum for some very daring pieces of original Filipino one act plays. For me, I also get a valuable education about the theater process from the...
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Review of KLSP's SHAKESPEARE DEMYSTIFIED: MACBETH: Engaging and Explanatory
May 29, 2018From May 28-30, 2018, the Asian Shakespeare Association, an organization dedicated to researching, producing, teaching, translating, and promoting Shakespeare from an Asian perspective, is...
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