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Essay
Feasting on Politics and Romance at the Iloilo Theater Festival
by Amanda L. Andrei
17 July 2025
Video
Pananadem (Remembering) by Kinding Sindaw
Presented by La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club
Sunday 15 March 2020
New York, NY
Essay
Dragon Lady
One Mother of a Musical
by Manuel R. Cawaling, Erin Murray
19 October 2017
A group of people dancing on stage.
Essay
17 July 2025

“Add Theater to Taste” was the recent theme of the annual Iloilo Theater Festival in the Philippines. Heritage language learner Amanda L. Andrei shares how the shows used food to explore deeper social issues and how her experience in the audience connected her more deeply to her roots.

performers dancing in traditional Meranao people clothes (Philippines)
Video

Presented by La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club

Sunday 15 March 2020
New York, NY

La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club presented a performance of Pananadem (Remembering) by Kinding Sindaw livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Sunday 15 March 2020 at 3 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC-4) / 19:00 GMT (London, UTC+0) / 20:00 CET (Berlin, UTC+1) / Monday 16 March at 03:00 PHT (Manilla and Singapore, UTC+8).

Essay

One Mother of a Musical

19 October 2017

Dragon Lady, written and performed by Sara Porkalob, brings bring race, female stories, and intersectionality into the American theatre conversation.

Essay
14 July 2017

The World Theatre Map beta project has engaged its first cohort of twenty-eight World Theatre Map Ambassadors from twenty-four countries to direct community organizing, outreach, and feedback gathering.

Essay

Claiming Our Narrative

2 October 2016

Emilya Cachapero, director of artistic and international programs at TCG, talks with playwright Victor Maog and Artistic Director of Mu Performing Arts Randy Reyes about being Pilipino theatre practitioners.

Essay
2 March 2016

Ira Gamerman reports on Australian playwright David Finnigan's new play Kill Climate Deniers that has been funded through an arts grant from the Australian government and called out as a waste of government arts spending although it hasn’t premeried yet.

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