Metrobank offers PETA's ‘One More Chance, The Musical’ | April 12-June 16, 2024

Get ready to feel all the feels again! PETA’s “One More Chance, the Musical,” an adaptation of Star Cinema’s cult classic movie featuring the songs of the country’s most sought-after nine-piece band, Ben&Ben, is opening ticket sales next month.

Excitement is building up fast for “One More Chance, The Musical” as theater fans eagerly wait for the opening of ticket sales. Buyers are already flexing their muscles, getting ready to grab hold of tickets as soon as they drop!

Everyday is Playday this Summer at SM Supermalls

Everyday is Playday is having a huge comeback last April 13, 2018 as SM City North Edsa, along with 17 other malls, celebrate all play, all fun, all day for kids and the whole family. 

ANG LARAWAN based on a masterpiece by Nick Joaquin (MMFF 2017)

Ang Larawan the musical is based on the story, A Portrait of the Artist as a Filipino, by Nick Joaquin. Directed by Loy Arcenas and music composed by Ryan Cayabyab, the screenplay (book & lyrics) was written by Rolando Tinio from the original play.

The film is one of the eight (8) official entries to the Metro Manila Film Festival 2017.

Spotlight Artists Centre presents Dirty Old Musical (DOM) at Music Museum | September 1-10, 2016

Spotlight Artists Centre presents Dirty Old Musical (DOM) at Music Museum on September 1-10, 2016. The show promises clean, wholesome fun and entertainment. Let’s hear it for the boys. Better yet, let’s hear it for the men!

After all, who said only women have issues? Despite having been touted as the stronger sex, most guys continue to grapple with their own share of concerns, however real or imagined, especially moreso with the onset of the years.

Dulaang UP presents "#R < / 3J" (hashtag R broken-heart J) - Aug 26-Sept 13, 2015

After 40 years of staging exceptional plays spanning from the classics to the contemporary and producing renowned directors, actors, designers, production and stage managers and technical directors, Dulaang UP celebrates this season with the theme... "20/20 Vision: Clarity. Originality. Perspective." For its premier offering, DUP presents #R < / 3 J, a multimedial hallucination on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

Virgin Labfest 11 at CCP | June 24-July 12, 2015

THE Virgin Labfest, a festival of untried, untested, unpublished and unstaged plays will be held from June 24 to July 12, 2015 at the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ Tanghalang Huseng Batute (Studio Theater) and the Bulwagang Amado Hernandez. The event is a joint venture of CCP, Tanghalang Pilipino and the Writers’ Bloc, Inc., in cooperation with the National Commission for Culture and the Arts.

NCCA, PhilPost launch commemorative stamp for Severino Montano, National Artist for Theater

The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) and the Philippine Post Office launched the Commemorative Stamp for the Centennial Birth Anniversary of National Artist for Theatre Severino Montano at the Leandro Locsin Auditorium of the NCCA on March 12, 2015. 

Virgin LabFest 11: Call for Submissions (2015)

The Virgin Labfest YEAR 11 is now open for script submissions. The Virgin Labfest is an annual festival of unpublished, unstaged, untried and untested works for the theater held at the Cultural Center of the Philippines. This festival is a partnership project of the Writer’s Bloc, Inc., Tanghalang Pilipino, Inc. and the Cultural Center of the Philippines.

This year, the Virgin Labfest will choose twelve (12) “virgin” one-act plays.The Virgin Labfest is open to submissions of the following written works:

Virgin Labfest 10 at CCP | June 25-July 6, 2014

The Virgin Labfest 10: The Harvest will be held from June 25 to July 6, 2014 at the Tanghalang Huseng Batute of the Cultural Center of the Philippines. It is an annual festival of untried, untested, unstaged and unpublished plays. The Labfest has 3pm and 8pm shows. It is a project of the CCP in cooperation with the Writer’s Bloc, Inc. and Tanghalang Pilipino in cooperation with the National Commission for Culture and Arts.

Dulaang UP's "Adarna" at Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero Theater | July 17-August 1, 2013

Adarna, the well-known and much-loved Filipino folk tale, opens another year of exciting plays from Dulaang UP which is now on its 38^th theater season. Adarna tells the story of Don Juan, the youngest of three princes who went on a journey to find the elusive mystical bird called Ibong Adarna believed to be the cure for their ailing father, the king of Berbanya. Don Juan’s quest whisks him to adventures in different lands, encounters with sage men and beautiful princesses and challenges that will test the young prince’s courage and mettle. 

Director José Estrella (Umaaraw, Umuulan Kinakasal ang Tikbalang) and her artistic team breathe new life into this dearly loved story of adventure, magic, courage, and love cherished by generations upon generations of Filipinos. This reimagining of this oft-told tale through a multimedia theatrical presentation blurs the distinctions between family dispute and love, home and faraway lands, and magical dreams and grim realities. 

2013 NCCA Writers' Prize: Call for Submission

Entries to the 2013 NCCA Writers' Prize are now being accepted, as announced by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) through its Plans, Project Formulation, and Program Division (P/PFPD) – Institutional Programs.

Download NCCA Writers' Prize 2013 Guidelines and application form. 

The form is also available at the Plan/Policy Formulation and Program Division (P/PFPD), Room 5-B, 5th Floor, NCCA Building, 633 General Luna Street, Intramuros 1002 Manila.

Virgin LabFest 9: Call for Submissions (2013)

The Virgin Labfest YEAR 9 is now open for script submissions. The Virgin Labfest is an annual festival of unpublished, unstaged, untried and untested works for the theater held in the middle of the year (June to July) at the Cultural Center of the Philippines. This festival is a partnership project of the Writer's Bloc, Inc., Tanghalang Pilipino, Inc. and the Cultural Center of the Philippines.

This year, the Virgin Labfest will choose nine (9) "virgin" one-act plays and one (1) full length play.

The Virgin Labfest is open to submissions of the following written works:

1.  One-act plays (maximum running time: 40 minutes)

2.  Full-length plays (minimum running time: 1 hour 20 minutes; maximum running time: 2 hours)

Virgin Labfest 8 at CCP (June 27-July 8, 2012)

THE Cultural Center of the Philippines announces the staging of the Virgin Labfest, a festival of new plays (untried, untested, unpublished and unstaged) by emerging and well-known playwrights to be held from June 27 to July 18, 2012 at the CCP Tanghalang Huseng Batute with 3pm and 8pm shows. Virgin Labfest is a project of the CCP in cooperation with the Writer’s Bloc, Inc. and Tanghalang Pilipino.

Now on its eighth year, the Virgin Labfest has earned a solid reputation for its exciting and provocative line-up of one-act plays from playwrights both young and old.  This year’s line-up includes plays for the One-Act Category: 

Isa Pang Soap Opera by Reuel Molina Aguila, 

Digital Divide by Ricardo Novenario, 

High Stakes by Marianne Mixkaela Z. Villalon, 

Ang Unang Regla ni John by Em Mendez, 

Hayop by Mar Anthony Dela Cruz, 

Alejandro by Chuckberry Pascual, 

Pagsubli by Aizel Cabilan, 

Symposium by U Eliserio & Maynard Manansala, 

Mga Kuneho by Guelan Luarca; 

and the Full-Length Category: Totong Hilot by J. Dennis Teodosio.

Ticket rates to the Virgin Labfest are P250.00.  For further inquiries, please call the CCP Performing Arts Division at (632) 832-1125 local 1607 or 1606.

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8th Virgin Labfest: Call for Submission (2012)

The Virgin Labfest, now on its 8th year is open for submissions of both one-act and full-length play scripts. The Virgin Labfest is an annual festival of unpublished, unstaged, untried and untested works for theater held in June and July at the Cultural Center of the Philippines in Manila. 

This festival is a partnership project of the Writer's Bloc, Inc., Tanghalang Pilipino, Inc. and the Cultural Center of the Philippines set from June 26 to July 8, 2012.

In the past seven years, the Virgin Labfest has distinguished itself by producing outstanding plays many of which have been recognized by the Palanca Awards for Literature. For the past three years, the one act play category has been dominated by Virgin Labfest works. In the performing arts, artists who took part in the Labfest has been recognized by the Aliw and the Gawad Buhay.

Works may be in Filipino, English or any Filipino dialect (with translations). Interested writers may submit their works to:

CLOTILDE GEALOGO-LUCERO
Performing Arts Division
Cultural Center of the Philippines
Roxas Boulevard, Pasay City
drama_ccp@yahoo.com

or

RODY VERA
Chairman – Writer’s Bloc Inc.
rodyvera@gmail.com

Submission Deadline: March 31, 2012. Official entries will be announced first week of May 2012.

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Tanghalang Pilipino presents "Tatlong Tabing: 3 Plays by Tony Perez" (Sept 30-Oct 23, 2011)

Tanghalang Pilipino pays tribute to one of its most prolific playwrights in Tatlong Tabing: Three Plays by Tony Perez, featuring three (3) of Tony Perez’s most outstanding plays. Tony Perez, who has spent over two decades eloquently dissecting the Filipino psyche, is an important playwright in contemporary Philippine drama. 

A prolific playwright with several volumes of published works, his plays deal with adult themes such as intense love, betrayal, separation, compassion, poverty, hunger, marriage, birth, and death. Dissecting the Filipino psyche, his plays deal with adult themes such as intense love, betrayal, separation, compassion, poverty, birth and death. 

Sipat Lawin Ensemble presents "Haring +Ubu-L XXX" in CCP (Aug 4-6, 2011)

Sipat Lawin Ensemble presents the New and Improved Haring +Ubu-L XXX on August 4 (8pm), August 5-6, 2011 (3pm and 8pm) at the Tanghalang Huseng Batute of the Cultural Center of the Philippines.

In SEASON 2000-Xi, the renegade theater company revisits its adaptation of French Playwright Alfred Jarre’s avant-garde play UbuRoi through a new devised work at the Center.

An interactive, explosive, fun, filthy, powerplay, Haring +ubu-l aims to revisit, re-investigate, remind, and re-expose the subject of excesses and exploits as represented by the performers, the audiences and their consciousness. Sipat Lawin takes Jarre’s classic piece, considered one of the precursors to the theatre of the absurd and plays with it further.  Setting the entire piece within a toilet bowl, HARING +UBU-L XXX spews out the filth, greed, avarice, gluttony and ambition of society.  The audience is caught up in the entire spectacle as theater’s classic fourth wall is broken down and spectators join the actors in the highly interactive work.   A supreme example of the Theater of Cruelty, discomfort substitutes escape inside the performance space.
         

Launch of "The Anvil Jose Rizal Reader" on July 2, 2011

The image above and some information below were lifted from Spy in the Sandwich:

The Anvil Jose Rizal Reader edited by Ani Habulan will be launched on July 2, 2010 (Saturday) at 4:30 pm at the Filipinas Heritage Library in Makati Avenue, Makati City. 

Virgin Labfest 7: Set E - Revisited (June 29-July 10)

Tanghalang Pilipino Foundation, Inc. and The Writer's Bloc present Virgin Labfest 7 (VLF7) to be held at the Tanghalang Huseng Batute in Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) on June 29-July 10, 2011. On its 7th year, VLF is a laboratory theater where untried, untested and unstaged plays are presented. There will be 5 Sets of plays: Set A, C & D has 3 one-act plays, Set B has 1 full-length play and Set E (VLF Revisited) showcases the 3 best one-act plays of the year 2010. 

You can check: VLF7 Set A & B, VLF7 Set C & D.

Set E: VIRGIN LABFEST VI REVISITED
Wednesday, June 29, 2011 - 3:00 PM & 8:00 PM
Thursday, July 7, 2011 - 8:00 PM
Friday, July 8, 2011 - 3:00 PM

HIGIT PA DITO
written by Allan Lopez 

directed by Tuxqs Rutaquio

Virgin Labfest 7: Set C & D (June 29-July 10)

Tanghalang Pilipino Foundation, Inc. and The Writer's Bloc present Virgin Labfest 7 (VLF7) to be held at the Tanghalang Huseng Batute in Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) on June 29-July 10, 2011. On its 7th year, VLF is a laboratory theater where untried, untested and unstaged plays are presented. There will be 5 Sets of plays: Set A, C & D has 3 one-act plays, Set B has 1 full-length play and Set E (VLF Revisited) showcases the 3 best one-act plays of the year 2010. 

You can check VLF7 Set A & B, VLF7 Set E: Revisited.

SET C
Friday, July 1, 2011 - 3:00 PM & 8:00 PM
Saturday, July 9, 2011 - 3:00 PM
Sunday, July 10, 2011 - 8:00 PM

STREETLIGHT MANIFESTO

written by Mixkaela Villalon

directed by Ed Lacson, Jr.

Virgin Labfest 7: Set A & B (June 29-July 10)

Tanghalang Pilipino Foundation, Inc. and The Writer's Bloc present Virgin Labfest 7 (VLF7) to be held at the Tanghalang Huseng Batute in Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) on June 29-July 10, 2011. On its 7th year, VLF is a laboratory theater where untried, untested and unstaged plays are presented. There will be 5 Sets of plays: Set A, C & D has 3 one-act plays, Set B has 1 full-length play and Set E (VLF Revisited) showcases the 3 best one-act plays of the year 2010.

You can check VLF7 Set C & D, VLF7 Set E: Revisted.

SET A
Sunday, July 3, 2011 - 3:00 PM & 8:00 PM
Saturday, July 9, 2011 - 8:00 PM
Sunday, July 10, 2011 - 3:00 PM

KINAUMAGAHAN  

written by Rachelle Rodriguez and Wennielyn Fajilan

directed by Riki Benedicto