Evo & Grace: The WanderLusts

It’s a night of theater generations in Philippine theater, the 11th Gawad Buhay Awards honors the best of 2018 plays, musical and theater performances of all company that compose Philstage, happen last May 28, 2019 at the Onstage of Greenbelt 1 in Makati City. Carlo Orosa and Kakai Bautista host the awarding ceremony with featured performances of all the nominated theater shows like Himala, Isang Musikal, Ang Huling El Bimbo, Eto na Musikal nAPO, Giselle, and Balag at Angud. Here is the complete set of winners.  Outstanding Sound Design- Rards Corpus, Eto Na Musikal nAPO 9 Works Theatrical Ed Lacson recieve the award for Barbie Tan-Tiongco Outstanding Lighting Design- Barbie Tan-Tiongco, Himala Isang Musikal 9 Works Theatrical and The Sandbox Collective Outstanding Costume Design- Carlo Pagunaling, Himala, Isang Musikal 9 Works Theatrical and The Sandbox Collective Outstanding Set design- Ed Lacson, Himala Isang Musikal 9 Works The...

 For 12 years now, Philippine Stagers Foundation, Inc continue its legacy of discovering talents thru Stage Acting, Theater Direction, Production Designs, and Writing scripts, all in two months of Summer Workshop, headed by its founder, Atty. Vince Tanada . The 2019 batch is around 120 students that undergo screening in order to be part of this  year’s summer activity, the selection according to Tanada is due to the fact that this year is an extensive workshop program from acting to directing, this is in preparation for the next venture of PSF which is producing film scheduled last quarter of the year. The PSF Summer Theater Workshop 2019 is sponsored by Filipino Theater Icon R.S Francisco and his company, the Frontrow. The usual acting showdown and direction of mini play by the Stagers members still happen, we manage to witness one whole afternoon screening 6 productions in their mini-studio in Balic-Balic, in Sampaloc Manila, from newbie actors to veteran st...

 Exactly a year after its successful run at the Theatre Solaire, BINONDO , A Tsinoy Musical comes back for another one.This time spearheaded by  the Maritess Alava-Yong Foundation , the said play whose story was based on Rebecca Chuaungsu’s uncle , written by multi-awarded writer Ricky Lee and directed by no less than veteran director  Joel Lamangan promises an excellent rerun of the  said theatrical piece. The Maritess Alava-Young foundation started its roots in 2017 by Mickey Yong,the husband of Maritess. Maritess succumbed to cancer in 2017 and her husband found it fitting to honor his wife’s dedication to philantrophical works by starting a foundation under her name. Maritess is a Filipina who got married to Singaporean Mickey Yong. Despite her stature, she never lost the passion in serving people. Unknown to her husband, she had done countless of charity work and her husband only found out the extent of her charitable works a few weeks after she died. ...