PETA’s THEE NA NATUTO: Love Sonnets for the Lovesick
February 29, March 7, 9, 2012 at 8:00pm
PETA Studios, PETA Theater Center
No. 5 Eymard Drive New Manila QC

Featuring the translations of literary greats:
National Artist for Literature Bienvenido Lumbera, Anj Heruela, BLKD, Butch Santos, Carlos Piocos, Froilan Medina, Joi Barrios, Luna Sicat-Cleto, Pete Lacaba, and Syke

and the interpretations of musical geniuses:
Noel Cabangon, BLKD, Diego Mapa, DJ Myke Salomon, Joan Bugcat, Lady i, Melvin Lee, Ricci Chan, Rissey Reyes, Ronnie Quesada, Skarlet, Vince de Jesus, and many more…

Tickets @ P500 each inclusive of one free drink.
To reserve, please call 410-0822 loc. 12 or call/text 0917-5183654.
Email petafr@petatheater.com.

Proceeds  of the concert go to the beneficiaries of PETA’s Theater Appreciation Program allowing public school students to watch plays for free and be further educated through the arts.

E X P L O R E !

PETA Summer Theater Arts Workshop now open for interested applicants! EARLY BIRD discounts available until February! For more info, contact Meann Espinosa @ (02) 7256244, +63906 211 5003, petatheater@gmail.com

Courses offered: Children’s Theater, Teen Theater, Theater Arts, Basic Acting, Creative Musical Theater, Creative Dance Theater and Theater in Education. For more information on our courses please click here.

For the first time in Philippine theater history,  Repertory Philippines and the Philippine Educational Theater Association are co-producing the phenomenal hit-musical comedy, CAREDIVAS, the story of 5 Filipino transgender migrant workers who have emigrated to Israel to work as health care providers for the  elderly and who in their spare time, perform as drag queens. While desperate to make ends meet in  another country, they also struggle to search for freedom and acceptance. Entertaining as it is, the  play also demonstrates the generosity of spirit, resilience and humanity of Filipinos.

With a series of performances at Onstage, Greenbelt 1 this limited Makati run will be on the following dates:

April 27, 8:00pm/ April 28, 3:00pm and 8:00 pm/ April 29, 3:00 pm and 8:00 pm.  

For show buying inquiries please call 410-0822 loc. 12 or call/text 0917-5183654.

TODA RABAH! (Thank you!)

ONE AGING KING. THREE DAUGHTERS.
A TRAGEDY AND MAJESTY OF A KINGDOM DIVIDED.

‘HARING LEAR’ OPENS THIS WEEKEND
Jan 27, 7:00pm | Jan 28, 10:00am/3:00pm
Jan 29, 10:00am/3;00pm
(Fri-Sun; Jan 27-Mar 4, 2012)

Direction-Nonon Padilla
Translation-Bienvenido Lumbera
Top L-R: Garry Lim (Regan), Nor Domingo (Goneril), Cordelia (Abner Delina Jr.), Teroy Guzman (Haring Lear)

Tickets: Php350 (reg)/Php500 (vip)
Reserve now: (02)7256244, (02)4100821-22, 0917-5765400, petatheater@gmail.com

Rated: PG is part of the PETA Arts Zone Project which advocates the use of positive discipline for raising children today.

To find out more about the play and the project please visit the website.

To bring the play Rated: PG to your school or city, please contact:

PETA Marketing and Public Relations Office

410-0822 loc 14-15

email: petatheater@gmail.com

 MANILA, Philippines – William Shakespeare is regarded as the greatest global dramatist ever. His works has prompted so many adaptations and retellings and has been articulated in many different forms and languages. However, we Filipinos have never seen one of his greatest plays, King Lear, done in graceful liquid Tagalog prose – until now.

After the back-to-back success of Philippine Educational Theater Association’s (PETA) Shakespeare rap musical ‘William’ and its box office comedy-drama ‘Care Divas’, PETA opens 2012 with another brave opus: the first-ever Filipino adaptation of William Shakespeare’s evocative masterpiece, King Lear.

Set in a post-nuclear world that is strangely contemporary and familiar, Shakespeare’s King Lear receives a fitting, royal makeover, fashioned by a pool of Filipino theater giants.

National Artist for Literature, Bienvenido Lumbera translates the text into prose while retaining the rhythm, texture and elegant brutality of Shakespeare’s tragedy. Acclaimed theater director, Nonon Padilla then turns the epic classic into a modern-dress contemporary family drama, while World Stage Design Awardee Gino Gonzales establishes the dark aesthetic, settings and styles of the play.

Exciting, suspenseful and virtually violent, PETA’s ‘Haring Lear’ retains Shakespeare’s moving and devastating themes of the disintegration of family solidarity, running the gamut of love, madness, death and sacrifice.

‘Haring Lear’ features a traditional Shakespeare all-male cast helmed by theater stalwart Teroy Guzman who plays the role of the aging monarch, Haring Lear. The rest of the cast includes: Gary Lim (Regan), Nor Domingo (Goneril), Abner Delina (Cordelia), Jay Gonzaga (Edmundo), Myke Salomon (Edgardo), Jack Yabut (Gloster), Josel Reyes (Kent), George De Jesus (Oswaldo), Jeff Hernandez (Duke ng Cornualles), Renante Bustamante (Duke ng Albanya), Fredyl Hernandez (Duke ng Burgonia), Angel Moratilla (Hari ng Francia) and Ernie Cloma (Matandang Lalaki).

‘Haring Lear’ runs every Friday, Saturday and Sunday from January 27 until March 4, 2012 at The PETA Theater Center. For tickets, contact 7256244, 4100821-22, 0917-5765400, petatheater@gmail.com. You may also buy your tickets here.

After a highly successful ARTS ZONE DECLARATION and awarding of markers to the representatives of the cities of Makati, Manila, Pasig, Caloocan and Quezon City, PETA is bringing back to the Theater Center, Rated: PG, an advocacy play on positive discipline.

Catch the adventures of Joselle and her family as they struggle to cope with everyday issues of parenting, making a living, and pursuing dreams.

Written by Liza Magtoto and directed by Mae Quesada, shows will be on Saturday and Sunday with the following schedules:

November 26, 10:00am and 3:00pm

November 27, 10:00am (fully-booked) and 3:00pm

Shows are FREE ADMISSION. Please be reminded that you have to call in advance to ensure that you have seats. Please call 410-0822 loc. 14 or 15 and look for Michee or Julie.

To find out more about the play and the ARTS Zone Project please visit their website.

The ARTS Zone, or Advocate Right to Safety Zone for Children, is a project initiated by the Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA) together with Terre des Hommes – Germany (TDH-G) and the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). The aim of the project is to advocate positive discipline as a response to the growing need to address the issue on children’s rights specifically their right to protection from all forms of abuse. The advocacy made use of theatre and the arts in carrying out its objectives.

The event began with the formal opening of an exhibit of artworks done by the children/students of the schools involved with ARTS Zone. Through visual arts, the children were given a chance to express their thoughts on corporal punishment and positive discipline.

During the program, each partner institution and each city was awarded with commemorative markers declaring their areas / communities / cities as ARTS Zones. The markers are expected to be installed by each partner at very conspicuous spots at their respective home-venues, serving as a reminder, apart from being tokens of recognition, for each partner of the part that they each have undertaken in promoting the ARTS Zone objectives.

Another highlight of the ceremonies was a Pledge of Declaration recited in unison by the attendees. The Pledge states the commitment of all present to uphold the rights of the child and to create for them a nurturing and loving environment.

An excerpt of PETA’s Rated: PG, a musical play commissioned specifically for this Project, was also shown. Rated: PG, a Palanca Award-winning play written by Liza Magtoto, with music and lyrics by Vincent de Jesus and directed by Mae Quesada-Medina, tells the story of a young mother, the multi-tasking Joselle, who faces difficult choices as she explores the possibility of leaving her family to find work abroad.

Serenading the crowd as the program ended was the Kilyawan Children’s Choir.

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Source: http://philippines.broadwayworld.com/article/2011-BWW-Philippines-Awards-Reveal-Nominees-20111103

New York, November 3, 2011 — Our theater scene in the Philippines, especially in Metro Manila, has never been as vibrant as in recent months, and we owe our hardworking, excellent theater practitioners the recognition and appreciation they deserve.

Congratulations to BroadwayWorld.com (BWW) Philippines Awards’ nominees, whose names are below, and were shortlisted from around 500 nomination entries sent from October 6 to 31.

You may now vote for your favourite nominees; voting deadline is December 31.

CLICK HERE TO VOTE!

2011 BWW Philippines Awards Nominees

Best Musical

In the Heights(Atlantis ProductionsInc.)

Sweet Charity(9 Works Theatrical)

Sound of Music(Resorts World Manila)

Peter Pan(Repertory Philippines/Stages Production Specialists Inc.)

Noli Me Tangere(Tanghalang Pilipino)

Care Divas(Philippine Educational Theater Association)

Cory ng Edsa(Philippine Stagers Foundation)

Best Play

American Hwangap(Tanghalang Pilipino)

Ang Post Office(Philippine Educational Theater Association)

Best Direction of a Musical

Bobby Garcia(Next to Normal)

Jaime del Mundo and Menchu Lauchengco-Yulo (Peter Pan)

Menchu Lauchengco-Yulo(Little Women)

Robbie Guevara (Sweet Charity)

Chari Arespacochaga (Aida)

Christopher de Venecia(Little Shop of Horrors)

Dexter Santos (Orosman at Zafira)

Vince Tanada (Cory ng Edsa)

Best Direction of a Play

Gary Labad (Ang Post Office)

Best Leading Actor (Musical)

Jett Pangan(Next to Normal)

Felix Rivera (Next to Normal)

Sam Concepcion(Peter Pan)

Gian Magdangal(The Wedding Singer)

Kris Lawrence(Sweet Charity)

Mark Bautista (Noli Me Tangere)

Melvin Lee(Care Divas)

Ricci Chan(Care Divas)

Jerald Napoles (Care Divas)

Vince Tanada (Cory ng Edsa)

Best Leading Actor (Play)

Martin Delos Santos(Ang Post Office)

Best Leading Actress (Musical)

Menchu Lauchengco-Yulo(Next to Normal)

Ciara Sotto (Rent)

Mian Dimacali (Rent)

Caissa Borromeo (Little Women)

Nikki Gil(Sweet Charity)

Tippy Dos Santos(Peter Pan)

Cris Villonco(Noli Me Tangere)

Best Leading Actress (Play)

Jay Glorioso (Love, Loss, and What I Wore)

Liza Infante (The 39 Steps)

Shamaine Centenera Buencamino (Fake)

Best Musical Direction

Gerard Salonga (Little Women)

Joseph Tolentino (Sweet Charity)

Pipo Cifra (Cory ng Edsa)

Best Choreography

Cecille Martinez (In the Heights)

Deana Aquino (Sweet Charity)

Dexter Santos (Orosman at Zafira)

John San Antonio (Cory ng Edsa)

Best Costume Design

Raven Ong (Peter Pan)

Mio Infante(Rent)

Emy Tanada (Cory ng Edsa)

Best Lighting Design

Shoko Matsumoto (Next to Normal)

Best Set Design

Joey Mendoza(Little Women)

Gino Gonzales (Peter Pan)

Jeffrey Ambrosio (Cory ng Edsa)

Best Sound Design

Chuck Ledesma (Rent)

Bobbit Jacinto (In the Heights)

Rards Corpus (Sound of Music)

Art Grabentina (Cory ng Edsa)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role/Ensemble Role (Musical)

Markki Stroem(Next to Normal)

OJ Mariano(Rent)

Michael Williams(Peter Pan)

Jeff Arcilla(Little Women)

Johann dela Fuente (The Wedding Singer)

Jon Jon Martin (The Wedding Singer)

Miguel Faustmann(Sweet Charity)

Myke Salomon(Care Divas)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role/Ensemble Role (Play)

Jeremy Domingo(American Hwangap)

Nicco Manalo(American Hwangap)

Jonathan Tadioan (Bombita)

George de Jesus (Amphitryon)

Joshua Deocareza (Titus Andronicus)

Nic Campos (Shakespeare in Hollywood)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role/Ensemble Role (Musical)

Bea Garcia (Next to Normal)

Tex Ordonez(In the Heights)

Ciara Sotto (Sweet Charity)

Sheila Valderrama(Sweet Charity)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role/Ensemble Role (Play)

Cris Villonco(The Joy Luck Club)

Frances Makil Ignacio (The Joy Luck Club)

Liesl Batucan(American Hwangap)

Skyzx Labastilla (Titus Andronicus)

Best Theater Company

Atlantis ProductionsInc.

9 Works Theatrical

Best Theatrical Venue

Carlos P. Romulo Auditorium

CCP Little Theater

PETA Center Theater

Newport Performing Arts Theater (Resorts World Manila)

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Tippy Dos Santos(Peter Pan)

Cris Villonco(Noli Me Tangere)

Best Leading Actress (Play)

Jay Glorioso (Love, Loss, and What I Wore)

Liza Infante (The 39 Steps)

Shamaine Centenera Buencamino (Fake)

Best Musical Direction

Gerard Salonga (Little Women)

Joseph Tolentino (Sweet Charity)

Pipo Cifra (Cory ng Edsa)

Best Choreography

Cecille Martinez (In the Heights)

Deana Aquino (Sweet Charity)

Dexter Santos (Orosman at Zafira)

John San Antonio (Cory ng Edsa)

Best Costume Design

Raven Ong (Peter Pan)

Mio Infante(Rent)

Emy Tanada (Cory ng Edsa)

Best Lighting Design

Shoko Matsumoto (Next to Normal)

Best Set Design

Joey Mendoza(Little Women)

Gino Gonzales (Peter Pan)

Jeffrey Ambrosio (Cory ng Edsa)

Best Sound Design

Chuck Ledesma (Rent)

Bobbit Jacinto (In the Heights)

Rards Corpus (Sound of Music)

Art Grabentina (Cory ng Edsa)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role/Ensemble Role (Musical)

Markki Stroem(Next to Normal)

OJ Mariano(Rent)

Michael Williams(Peter Pan)

Jeff Arcilla(Little Women)

Johann dela Fuente (The Wedding Singer)

Jon Jon Martin (The Wedding Singer)

Miguel Faustmann(Sweet Charity)

Myke Salomon(Care Divas)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role/Ensemble Role (Play)

Jeremy Domingo(American Hwangap)

Nicco Manalo(American Hwangap)

Jonathan Tadioan (Bombita)

George de Jesus (Amphitryon)

Joshua Deocareza (Titus Andronicus)

Nic Campos (Shakespeare in Hollywood)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role/Ensemble Role (Musical)

Bea Garcia (Next to Normal)

Tex Ordonez(In the Heights)

Ciara Sotto (Sweet Charity)

Sheila Valderrama(Sweet Charity)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role/Ensemble Role (Play)

Cris Villonco(The Joy Luck Club)

Frances Makil Ignacio (The Joy Luck Club)

Liesl Batucan(American Hwangap)

Skyzx Labastilla (Titus Andronicus)

Best Theater Company

Atlantis ProductionsInc.

9 Works Theatrical

Best Theatrical Venue

Carlos P. Romulo Auditorium

CCP Little Theater

PETA Center Theater

Newport Performing Arts Theater (Resorts World Manila)