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A thread of events around Metro Manila happening within the last two quarters of 2019.
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A thread of events around Metro Manila happening within the last two quarters of 2019.
The 34th Awit Awards, the biggest music recognition show in the land, ran an online awards presentation without a hitch. The big winners of the 34th Awit Awards were revealed on an online show presentation last Monday night, 29th of November 2021. The music awards show chose to go the online r
Subversive and reflexive, Lapulapu—staged in the newly restored Metropolitan Theater of Manila—shows us how to decolonize our past. Or see it this way: it triumphs over impositions from intellectuals whose perspectives remain beyond our control, and etched in a monolithic history many are not brave enough to question. Many things…
ON its 90th year, the Manila Metropolitan Theater (Tanghalang Pangkalakhan ng Maynila; informally the MET, officially the NCCA Metropolitan Theater) is reclaiming its old glory as a cultural enclave. It will host the staging of Lapulapu, Ang Datu ng Mactan, its first theatrical production since it closed in 1996. The…
After more than two decades of closure, the Metropolitan Theater (MET) will now come back to life with the National Commission for Culture and the Arts' (NNCA) "Lapulapu, Ang Datu ng Mactan" musical—the first production to be staged in the newly-conserved playhouse. Lapulapu at MET. (Photo from N