Francis Cruz

The Star Theatre in the Star City complex, an amusement park, in Pasay City is currently closed to the public after a fire broke out in the morning hours of Wednesday, 2 October.

Igniting patriotism from its mostly high school student audience whose occasional exclamations and shrieks during Crisostomo Ibarra and Maria Clara's more intimate moments in the play were, we suppose, uncontainable, Gantimpala Theater Foundation's Kanser, a theatrical adaptation of National Hero Jose Rizal's famous first novel Noli Me Tangere, is back for a limited run. It plays the Star Theatre in Pasay City this Thursday, 3 October.

In 1996, DINK Records released a compendium of musical theater love songs from Gershwin, Sondheim, Porter, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Herman, Kern,..., with a twist. Sung between men, with no lyric alterations (including pronouns), 'Stage 1 How I Love You' was, as Out Magazine described 'a dream no longer deferred.'