MANILA, Philippines - The first impression one gets upon seeing the title and poster of the musical play Mabining Mandirigma at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) is that here is a show ...

Aesthetics is said to be the science of beautiful in its myriad manifestations--be it sublime, comic, tragic, pathetic, whimsical, or ugly. MABINING MANDIRIGMA (Gentle Warrior), Tanghalang Pilipino's ...

"Mabining Mandirigma" places the spotlight on Apolinario Mabini, played by cross-gender actors Monique Wilson and Hazel Maranan. There are many reasons why Mabini, a Filipino revolutionary leader and ...

Winners of the 8th Philstage Gawad Buhay Awards pose for the media after the three-hour program directed by Jenny Jamora held at Onstage Greenbelt Theater. PHOTO BY Eloisa Lopez/INQUIRER Star of stage ...

“Aurelio Sedisyoso,” directed by Chris Millado, opens Sept. 1. The same creative team that infused steampunk visual elements into Tanghalang Pilipino’s acclaimed “Mabining Mandirigma”—an original ...

Still elated over the Department of Education sponsoring the opera “Noli Me Tangere” at the CCP in June, and wishing other government agencies would mount similar events, I was happy to witness the ...

Tanghalang Pilipino’s “Mabining Mandirigma” received a total of 13 nominations in both performance and technical categories for this year's Gawad Buhay! Awards. Nicanor Tiongson's "steampunk musical" ...

THE brain of the Revolution is the purest of them all. It is a lovely and fresh duplicity to a man who is physically crippled at the height of the fighting, but certainly the one with the most ...

Dr. Nicanor Tiongson's "Mabining Mandirigma" is unusual in a number of ways. For one, it claims to be a steampunk musical, a production made of cogs and songs that are, at times, infodumps telling the ...

MANILA, Philippines — It’s not often that local audiences get to watch a steampunk musical that’s ambitious and, at the same time, sophisticated. Tanghalang Pilipino’s restaging of its award-winning ...

Mabining Mandirigma is being staged at the Cultural Center of the Philippines until July 19, 2015. Though the surname "Buencamino" has been in the news recently due to tragic news, Delphine Buencamino ...

The ticking of the clock. Moving cogwheels and gears. As smoke rises, we are transported back in time, counting down to the historic events of distant past–the Philippine Revolution of 1896, Rizal’s ...