When she penned the script of her latest film “Mandirigma” (Warrior), journalist-turned-director Arlyn de la Cruz never realized that it would be an omen for another imminent and real-life incident ...

TERNATE, Cavite—“We need to make more films that depict love of country… this project is one of them,” said journalist-filmmaker Arlyn de la Cruz, whose “Mandirigma” tells the stories and struggles of ...

RISING Pinay actress and fashion model Aileen Joyce Santiago continues her steady ascent in the entertainment industry as she ...

Rising star Angeli Khang reached a major milestone in her acting career as she attended the premiere night of ‘Mandirigma’, ...

The same creative team that infused steampunk visual elements into Tanghalang Pilipino’s acclaimed “Mabining Mandirigma”—an original Filipino musical about Apolinario Mabini that grabbed 12 awards at ...

The show’s revelatory punch is not confined to its radical casting of a female actor–the exceptional Delphine Buencamino–as Apolinario Mabini “Mabining Mandirigma” has libretto by Dr. Nicanor G.

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 ...

"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 ...

I have many different groups of friends. One is the harem. Another is a group of women who occasionally lunch together. I don’t know if anybody sings in this group. All I know is we don’t sing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...