About Saul de Jesus
Saul de Jesus
Founder & Editor, unSAULicited
"Theater is not an escape from the world. It is the place where we are forced to look at it most clearly."
In 2015, Saul de Jesus founded unSAULicited not as a directory of showtimes or a repository of polite, shallow summaries, but as an act of resistance against cynicism. In a fast-paced cultural landscape where opinions are often brief and reactive, he believed the local stage deserved something more: writing that is slow, deliberate, and deeply felt.
Over the past decade, Saul has mapped the changing landscape of the Manila stage. From intimate black box experiments in Makati to grand Broadway revivals at Solaire, his reviews search for the human ache behind the curtain, focusing on how live performances grapple with our collective dignity, our creative limits, and our stubborn insistence on hope.
Part review archive, part local performance calendar, and part love letter to the Philippine theater community, unSAULicited remains committed to a simple, challenging standard: treating theater not just as passive entertainment, but as an urgent conversation waiting in the dark.