Stageshow: entertainment and history
By PABLO A. TARIMAN
FOR sure, theater audiences will have different ways of reacting to Mario O’Hara’s “Stage Show” which will open the National Theater Festival on November 7 and 8.
By PABLO A. TARIMAN
FOR sure, theater audiences will have different ways of reacting to Mario O’Hara’s “Stage Show” which will open the National Theater Festival on November 7 and 8.
By PATRICK KING PASCUAL
UNDENIABLY handsome. Talented and passionate football players. Committed advocates of a healthy lifestyle. They are brothers James and Phil Younghusband.
The brothers, along with other members of the Azkals team, became an overnight sensation in Philippine sports after their successful stint at the recent 2012 Asian Football Confederation (or the AFC Challenge Cup).
By PABLO TARIMAN
Rarely seen in Manila but prominent in the international ballet scene is Cebu-born Nicolas Pacaña who — like Lisa Macuja – is staging his own swan song starting with his last performances of Romeo and Juliet last August and September in Cebu City where he is co-artistic director of the city’s BalletCenter.
Text and photos by ELIZABETH LOLARGA
WITH the air chilly and the fog constant, Baguio City is the perfect setting for a night that raises goose bumps. “Tales of the Al-alya (Ghost Stories)” was staged on Halloween by the Baguio Writers Group (BWG) at the Hill Station bar in the reportedly haunted, century-old Casa Vallejo. BWG members led by its president, Luchie Maranan, culled from their experiences with the beyond and those that have become part of local lore.
By PABLO A. TARIMAN
PEOPLE in the seven arts have a unique way of coping with death and near death situations.
Theater buffs remember actor Jose Mari Avellana who passed away the other year and how he coped with a life-threatening scenario in the middle of a performance.
Text and photo reproductions by ELIZABETH LOLARGA
THE much-loved and esteemed Doreen Gamboa Fernandez would have been more than pleased at the culinary storm she helped generate: blogs devoted to restaurant reviews; culinary academies rising in nearly all parts of the country; regional and national cooking contests; newspaper sections and columns devoted to food and dining. In a large way, this is her doing.
By PABLO A. TARIMAN
FRENCH composer Georges Bizet is Manila’s flavor of the month judging from the simultaneous staging of “Carmen” by the Lyric Opera of the Philippines and its ballet version by Ballet Manila.
By PABLO A. TARIMAN
CATANDUANES, the country’s 12th largest island of the country’s 7,000 or so islands, is observing its 67th founding anniversary with street dancing, a beauty pageant for both sexes (a Binibini and Ginoong Catanduanes), and with obligatory speeches from both local and national politicians.
Text and photos by ELIZABETH LOLARGA,VERA Files
HOW can a city squirt resist the prospect of a southwest adventure after a companion who had left earlier for Batangas sends an SMS describing her swim for the day where she felt like she was swimming in an aquarium with multicolor fish swarming around her?
By PABLO A. TARIMAN
MANILA’S balletomanes could have watched their last Filipino Giselle when Lisa Macuja Elizalde danced what she said was her last crack at this ballet masterpiece Sunday night with David Makhateli (formerly of The Royal Ballet) and with the Manila Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Alexander Vikulov of the Marinsky Theater.