In the play “God of Carnage,” opening on July 13—a Friday, how strangely appropriate—at the Carlos P. Romulo Auditorium of RCBC Plaza in Makati, a reference to Francis Bacon’s often grotesque and macabre works of art is made. I don’t think this is coincidental, considering the absolute chaos this Yasmina Reza comedy (translated by Christopher [...]
When the Manila production of the stage musical “Rock of Ages” opened in the same week as its film adaptation of the same title, it could’ve gone either way—the stage musical would suffer due to the film version’s powerhouse cast led by Tom Cruise, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Alec Baldwin; or it would benefit from the exact same reasons.
I brought Nicole out for a mommy-daughter date to the theater last Friday, the opening night of Atlantis Productions’ mounting of Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” at the Meralco Theater. All of us in the family have seen the Disney film on which the stage version was based. But we haven’t seen the stage production, so [...]
