The title may sound a little too homespun for inveterate watchers of beauty contests. But in winning the recent search for Mr. & Ms. Hannah’s Beach Resort and Convention Center, Stephan Cativo and Patricia Camille Reyes signed up for ready-made responsibilities that are more immediate, straightforward and concrete than promoting world peace.
When it comes to apologies, how big is the difference between “acknowledging” and “accepting”?
The network wars just got personal. On Tuesday, GMA 7 vice president for news programs and news anchor Jessica Soho slammed comedian Jose Marie Viceral—more popularly known as Vice Ganda—a talent of rival network ABS-CBN, for a “cruel” joke the latter made about her during his recent concert.
It was a case of … déjà vu: Kris Aquino on nationwide television, tearfully but lucidly telling her side of a headline-grabbing spat with a man who had shared her home long enough for them to have a child.
A long line greeted even early birds among those who trooped to the Smart Araneta Coliseum in Cubao Saturday to have their Sting concert tickets replaced following a recent venue change.
If you took to the dissecting table just the “fun” aspect of this show, you still might declare it a rare species. It has song, dance and impersonation deftly strung together; but no director, musical director or the customary script. It dared open on Sept. 26, during the run of two big theatrical productions, and [...]
Claire Lyon, classically trained Australian soprano, foresees “passionate love” more than the usual mad mentor-protégé bond between Phantom and Christine, lead characters in “The Phantom of the Opera,” for the enduring musical’s Manila run that starts this week. At the recent press launch of the Lunchbox Theatrical Productions presentation, Lyon told the Inquirer: “The [...]
True to form, The Phantom sneaked into his new lair in Manila when he was least bound to be noticed—Tuesday last week, while a bizarre nonstorm challenged established parameters of possibility and danger.
Rhythm and rage need not be strange bedfellows, not when tied together with aggressive dance and visual poetry.
Loyal viewers should know that there is nothing random about the round-the-clock HBO playlist. A lot of thought goes into the selection of films and programs to run and, of late, to produce. The process is repeated periodically, as many times as there are subscriber territories and cultures around the world whose sensibilities differ from [...]
Friends and friends of friends make up businessman-musician Ramon Jacinto’s plus-1s in his groundbreaking “RJ Duets” double CD, and the kinship is unmistakable.
The celebrated plunge of a huge chandelier from theater ceiling to center stage has got to be the moment of moments in “Phantom of the Opera,” right?
