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‘Avenue Q’ playwright to receive honors for bringing new voice to theater
Robert Lopez, the Tony Award-winning co-creator of “Avenue Q” and “The Book of Mormon” will be honored at the gala event, PhilDev Celebrates Broadway: Suites by Sondheim, on November 7 at the Lincoln Center. Lopez will receive the Award of Excellence from PhilDev, formerly the Ayala Foundation USA. His first two Broadway musicals, “Avenue Q” […]
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Those Village people
By Elton Lugay Jerome and Janelyn Bernardo from London were shocked to see gay pride revelry at Greenwich Village. “I’ve never seen anything like this before,” said Janelyn. “It was quite revealing, the kind you don’t expect to see.” Revealing, she said? I thought she meant the provocative costumes by some of the parade goers, […]
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Hazel and Pete say ‘I do,’ read vows on their iPads
By Cristina DC Pastor The bride and groom came in a yellow cab, the guests a red double-decker tourist bus. And that’s just one of the “very New York” highlights of the October 8 wedding of CBS 2 reporter Hazel Sanchez and AIG insurance executive Peter Rapciewicz. Everything else was a nice pastiche of Filipino […]
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New York’s haunted places
Manhattan is known to be one haunted island. There will always be spots here where spirits are said to roam or appear like quick-vanishing shadows. Some people, for example, love to share Central Park “sightings” of John Lennon hovering around Strawberry Fields or The Dakota where he was shot and killed 31 years ago. Or […]
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At TOFA-NY, win or lose they’re still Facebook friends
In the grand tradition of Filipino celebrations, the congratulations come with the cheers and the comical. The first Outstanding Filipino Americans in New York awards event held October 29 at Carnegie Hall was no different. (See trunk story on the right) You could tell the winners by the coterie of fans following them around, asking […]
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Shakespearean comedy goes Hong Kong retro
The grassroots theater company Leviathan Lab presents its inaugural production, Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night,” at the Arclight Theater at 152 West 71st Street from November 3 to 19. In “Twelfth Night,” Viola, a young woman shipwrecked and stranded in the seaside city of Illyria, sets a series of events into motion that create a tangled knot […]
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No more ‘stupid tricks’ for topnotch talent hound
By Cristina DC Pastor For eight years, Darren Demeterio supplied David Letterman with dogs that sneeze, answer the phone or people who wear toilet plungers on their heads. The Stupid Human and Pet Tricks was a beloved staple that contributed to making “The Late Show with David Letterman” a six-time Emmy winner and an enduring […]
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Jesse Eisenberg: ‘Asuncion’ inspired by ex-girlfriend
An off-Broadway production will feature a Filipina student as a pivotal character, and we don’t mean Sunshine Corazon. Rattlestick Playwrights Theater presents “Asuncion,” a play about a Filipina student who shares an apartment with two white male students. “The Social Network’s” Jesse Eisenberg debuts as a playwright. Rising star Camille Mana (“Smart People,” “College”) plays […]
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‘No Other Woman’ opens in Jersey theaters Oct. 7
Hailed by critics as possibly one of the best Filipino movies of the year, “No Other Woman” is coming to New Jersey on October 7. Touching on the sensitive topic of extramarital affairs, the film examines the reactions of the three main characters to infidelity. Ram Escaler (Derek Ramsey) is a dedicated furniture salesman who […]