Playlist and reviews, 2009

Every year, I take note of all theater performances I'm able to watch and write a "Best of Philippine Theater" roundup by yearend. Here are the plays and musicals I saw in 2009.

Note: Click on a highlighted title to read my review.

NON-MUSICAL PLAYS

• Mary Stuart: Dulaang UP

• Ismail at Isabel: PETA

• A Streetcar Named Desire/Flores Para Los Muertos: Tanghalang Pilipino

• Mother Courage/Madonna Brava ng Mindanao: Tanghalang Pilipino

• Amphitryon: Dulaang UP

• Electra: FEU Art Theatre Clinique

• Tanyag--Our Lady of Arlegui/Baka Sakali/Ang Kalungkutan ng Mga Reyna: IIFA

• Apples From the Desert/Mansanas sa Disyerto: Tanghalang Pilipino

• Lulu:: Dulaang UP

• Dead Stars/Sepang Loca: UP Playwrights' Theater

• Noli-Fili Dekada 2000: PETA

• Virgin Labfest 5 (15 plays):: Tanghalang Pilipino/Writers' Bloc

• Machinal: UP Theater 200 (thesis play)

• Bent/Lihis: Dulaang Sipat Lawin

• Summer's Nights, Summer's Dreams/Isang Pangarap sa Gabi ng Gitnang Tag-Araw: DLS-CSB School of Design and Arts

• Gomer: UP Dulaang Laboratoryo

• Art: UP Dulaang Laboratoryo

• Lysistrata: Tanghalang Ateneo

• Isang Pangarap sa Gabi ng Gitnang Tag-araw: PHSA Dulaang Sipat Lawin

• Kwentong Bata: PHSA Dulaang Sipat Lawin

• Kung Paano Maghiwalay: Stage Right Theatre Productions

• Saan Tayo Ihahatid ng Disyembre?: PETA

• Atang: Dulaang UP

• A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino: Repertory Philippines

• I-Land (Keo Woolford): Asian Cultural Council

• Hacienda Animal: Dulaang ROC/UA&P

• Pamaypay, Kutsilyo at Yantok: Tanghalang Pilipino/GMA-7

MUSICALS

• Song of Joseph: Oblates of St. Joseph/Music Theater Foundation Philippines

• Sweeney Todd:: Repertory Philippines

• Si Juan Tamad, ang Diyablo at ang Limang Milyong Boto: PETA

• Spring Awakening: Atlantis Productions

• NOAH (No Ordinary Aquatic Habitat): Trumpets

• Ako si Ninoy: Philippine Stages Foundation

• The Threepenny Opera: World Theater Project

• Tick, tick...Boom!: Ateneo Blue Repertory

• The Fantasticks: Repertory Philippines

• Songs For a New World: 9 Works Theatrical

• Sinta!: Dulaang Sibol

• The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee:: Atlantis Productions

• 110, A New Musical: UP Dulaang Laboratoryo

• I Love You Because: Repertory Philippines

• You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown: UA&P-Kultura

• Bare: Ateneo Blue Repertory

• ZsaZsa Zaturnnah: Tanghalang Pilipino