Our recent trips to New York, Philadelphia, Washington, DC, and Chicago included a lot of indelible theatergoing moments—and it’s impossible to pick just one favorite from among the 26 shows we viewed during our 24-day cultural adventure in the United States.
LOS ANGELES—There’s a high school hallway scene in “The Amazing Spider-Man” in which Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone evoke the giddiness of young love. In an interview in Cancun, we asked Andrew how Emma, as an actress, helped bring out the flustered kid in him experiencing first love in that scene. “We’ve all experienced first [...]
LOS ANGELES—It has been quite a year for Filipino-American actress T.V. Carpio. She sang with Bono in a top-rated American network newsmagazine show, acted opposite Bradley Cooper in the blockbuster movie “Limitless” and survived the challenges that plagued the stage musical “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark,” including suffering from a whiplash when a fellow cast [...]
There are two shows on local TV that hew closely to the “confrontation” format made popular on American television by the combative “The Jerry Springer Show.” “Face to Face” is more faithful to the American model, which has been roundly criticized for featuring and even encouraging verbal and physical violence. As a result, the Filipino [...]
HONG KONG—Stan Lee wants to see the likes of Spider-Man and X-Men weaving between skyscrapers in Shanghai and battling enemies on the Great Wall. The comic book legend has announced a joint venture with a Hong Kong investment company that aims to roll out a new superhero franchise targeted at Chinese and foreign audiences. Lee’s [...]
“Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” was a visual feast, with thrilling acrobatic feats and bigger-than-life moving screens that change images and colors. And who can forget that breathtaking midair battle between Spider-Man and Green Goblin? I had this feeling that, ‘Oh God, I hope the cables are secure enough, and that there won’t be any [...]
