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The NCOV-19 pandemic may have caused stage productions to prematurely close, but Tanghalang Pilipino (TP), the resident theater company of the Cultural...

Here's our Review of Batang Mujahideen by playwright, Malou Jacob. Armed conflict in Mindanao: One of the...

Heralded for well-acted, finely-produced classical plays, Tanghalang Pilipino goes experimental in its upcoming production of Malou Jacob’s “Batang Mujahideen,” a play about...

We caught the open TDR for TP's latest musical offering. Read and find out why LAM-ANG demands and deserves your attention.

“Lam-ang” takes centerstage this December as Tanghalang Pilipino’s third production for this MAKIDIGMA season (33rd Theater Season, 2019-2020). This ethno-epic musical brings...

Tanghalang Pilipino strips JC Santos” to the core in its upcoming production of the epic “Lam-ang". It marks the actor's return to...

One of the biggest challenges to adapting a literary piece that has occupied such a sacred place in the pantheon of western theatrical classics is doing so organically. The adaptation should be true to the original, and it cannot diminish the emotional resonance in the reframing of the story in another context in order for it to succeed. This is why there are very few successful adaptations of western literature reframed in a local, Filipino, context.

After the soaring success of “Mabining Mandirigma,” Tanghalang Pilipino (TP) stages Katsuri, a timely drama about friendship and...