Tag: peta
PETA launches YouTube channel
THE Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA) has launched its YouTube Channel featuring works by and inspired by English poet and playwright William Shakespeare.
The show goes online
A virus outbreak and enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) have inspired more creativity than hindered it. While the audience is temporarily avoiding going to the...
PETA combats the stigma of HIV/AIDS through art
THE Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA) is closing its 52nd season with the Acting on HIV campaign.
Post-election messages of patriotism told through the kundiman
AN ARTIST’S work is inspired by many things. It may be his environment, the events in his community, or his personal experiences. For playwright Floy Quintos, current events in his country inspired the creation of what he previously said would be his “swan song.”
Popular culture and political theater
“CHAROT” is gay slang, one of the many fluid terms generated by popular lingo, often used as an interjection to express the flimsy nature of a statement and to which the appropriate response should be... charot, or char, its abbreviated expression. The word has permeated popular culture such that in television, radio, and social media, the term is used with impunity.
More int’l acts in 5th improv fest
FOR its fifth year, the biennial Manila Improv Festival will feature 58 improv acts from all over the world, performing from March 27 to March 31 at the Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA) Theater Center in Quezon City.
Charot isn’t joking
FILIPINO slang that means “just kidding,” the word “charot” is conveniently used to lighten things up and make them fun with the aim of reducing serious discussions into jokes. But PETA’s new political show Charot will take matters seriously.
A very full theatrical calendar
LAST YEAR’s theater scene was lively and jampacked. This year is shaping up to be just the same, if not more.
Trumperte: comedy is political
MELANIA and Donald Trump will be visiting the Philippines on Oct. 26 and 27.
PETA’s State of the Nation
THE PHILIPPINE Educational Theater Association (PETA) is devoting its 51st season to shows that tackle the current state of the nation: the extrajudicial killings, the rise of trolls and fake news, and historical revisionism, among other topics.
Saving the Pasig River through an arts program
A NUMBER OF arts activities are scheduled in six cities of Metro Manila until December as an initiative to raise awareness of the need to rehabilitate the Pasig River.
Rak of Aegis returns with new cast members
FIVE seasons and 300 shows since it first opened in 2013, Rak of Aegis returns to the stage when Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA) presents the latest iteration on June 20 to Sept. 2.
Death, and then the laundry
By Sujata S. Mukhi
Theater Review
’Night, Mother
Presented by PETA
Ongoing until March 18
PETA Theater Center,
No. 5 Eymard Drive,
New Manila, QC
“AFTER ENLIGHTENMENT, the laundry, “ is...
Of depression and expression
By Nickky F. P. de Guzman, Reporter
Theater Review
’Night Mother
Presented by PETA
Feb. 2 to March 18, Fridays to Sundays
The PETA Theater Center,No.5 Eymard
Drive, New...
New Year, new shows
WITH THE NEW YEAR comes new shows and encores to the delight of theater fans. Here are some of the plays, musicals, ballets, and...
PETA’s ’Night Mother invites audience to have a ‘real’ talk
JESSIE wants to end her life, and she’ll do it tonight using her father’s gun. Jessie (played by Eugene Domingo) has told her mother...
PETA’s Ang Buhay ni Galileo returns to Fort Santiago
THE OPEN THEATER in Fort Santiago hosted PETA’s plays in the 1990s. A live horse ran from the entrance to the stage in Virginia...
PETA holds festival on bringing art to daily life
OVER THE last 50 years of its existence, PETA (Philippine Educational Theater Association) has been staging successful commercial shows like Care Divas, Rak of...
Ghosts of Martial Law Past, and Present
By Joseph L. Garcia
Theater Review
A Game of Trolls
Presented by PETA
September
PETA Theater Center, No. 5 Eymard Drive,
New Manila, Quezon City
Sept. 2 to 28, with 3 pm matinees
on Fridays,...
Trolling the troll
TO GET and sustain the youths’ attention, PETA’s musical production Game of Trolls, incorporates all things millennial: rap battles, an LED-light party, a love...
Care Divas are back with more laughs, new faces
By Camille Anne M. Arcilla
THE DIVAS are back in Tel Aviv — or on the PETA stage, rather — to bring more laughs and...
Lola Basyang reminds us of our values
By Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman
Theater
Mga Kuwento ni Lola Basyang
Presented by PETA
Sept. 27 to 29
Star Theater, Star City, CCP Complex,
Roxas Blvd., Pasay City
IT HAS...
Heavyweight champ David Haye takes jab at meat industry for PETA
MANILA — Heavyweight boxing champion David Haye stars in a PETA Asia campaign promoting “the knockout power of vegan meals”, the region’s People for...
Keeping the kids busy this summer
By Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman
It is alarming that kids these days belong to “the most sedentary generation in history.” So said Sam Kass,...
Postmodern cautionary tale
By Johanna D. Poblete
Theater Review
3 Stars and a Sun
Feb. 4 to March 6
Tuesdays to Fridays, 8 p.m.;
Saturdays and Sundays, 3 and 8 p.m.
PETA Phinma...
Scream and shout
By Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman
MOST local horror booths are funny rather than scary (or perhaps I am only trying hard to appear brave)....