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Stage Plays in Manila

Reviews and guides to Filipino plays, adaptations, translated works, and university productions in Manila and across the Philippines.

Current and Upcoming Stage Plays

  • Last Dance: Hubo’t Hubad, Beyond the Bodies
    Jojo Urquico’s play continues at Halxyon Club in Poblacion, Makati on selected October dates through October 29, 2026. The preview introduces the production; the September 29 review supplies the public dates, 7:30 PM start time, and Saul’s response to the press preview. For audiences 18 and older.
  • MORYON by FEU Theater Guild
    FEU Theater Guild’s adaptation of Mother Sauvage is set in Japanese-occupied Marinduque. Performances are scheduled on selected dates from October 1 to November 28, 2026 at the FEU Center for the Arts Studio in Manila.
  • Tententenen at Teatro Marco
    Mark Ghosn’s new Filipino comedy runs in Maginhawa, Quezon City, from October 10 to 25, 2026. The guide includes showtimes, venue access, booking routes, and the announced cast.
  • The Play That Goes Wrong in Manila
    Mischief’s farce runs November 6–22, 2026 at The Theatre at Solaire. This combined announcement also covers the separate Cirque Alice engagement in October.

Start Here: Essential Stage Play Coverage

People, Places and Things: Seeing the Human First
Review · Published

The Sandbox Collective's staged reading trusts restraint, silence, and the audience. Bela Padilla moves naturally from screen to stage, while the review keeps the person ahead of the diagnosis.

ENDO Review 2026
Review · Published

A Manila theater review of ENDO at PETA Theater Center, centered on labor, instability, rhythm, symbolism, and contemporary Filipino stage adaptation.

University Theater Manila

A dedicated hub for campus productions, student-led theater, Ateneo ENTABLADO, Tanghalang Ateneo, FEU Theater Guild, UP Manila Dramatista, and university stages.

Santa Juana ng mga Katayan

Ateneo ENTABLADO’s Filipino staging of Brecht’s Saint Joan of the Stockyards, framed around capitalism, labor, resistance, and Quezon City theater.

Emilia by Tanghalang Ateneo

A feminist stage work on authorship, gender, visibility, labor, and historical memory, presented through a Filipino lens by Tanghalang Ateneo.

FEU Theater Guild

A university theater archive path for FEU Theater Guild, Bangaw context, campus ensemble work, student performance, and Filipino stage adaptation.

YEMAYA Manila 2026

An archive guide to 9 Works Theatrical’s staging of a Filipino translation of Quiara Alegría Hudes’ play at Rockwell Makati, shaped by memory, water, language, and belonging.

Stage Play Reviews and Earlier Production Guides

Political Theater, Labor, and Socially Engaged Plays

The plays below include Filipino adaptations, political theater, and work by university companies.

For labor and systems

Start with ENDO and Santa Juana ng mga Katayan, two very different stage works that use theater to confront precarity, exploitation, and the cost of surviving inside systems built on imbalance.

For socially engaged theater

Continue with PETA Control + Shift and university theater coverage, where studio work and campus stages often carry urgent questions about community, power, identity, and public life.

University Theater and Campus Productions

This section collects university productions and campus theater coverage.

For the full campus map

Start with University Theater Manila, then move through Ateneo ENTABLADO, Tanghalang Ateneo, FEU Theater Guild, and UP Manila Dramatista for student-led productions and campus stages.

For university anchors

For the October to November 2026 campus run, read the MORYON guide and continue through University Theater Manila. Santa Juana ng mga Katayan and Emilia document Ateneo’s April–May 2026 productions.

Translated Plays, Adaptations, and Reimagined Texts

The following links cover Filipino translations and stage adaptations.

Performance, Discipline, and Actor-Centered Plays

Not every stage play announces itself through spectacle or politics. Some productions use the rehearsal room, the classroom, or the act of performance itself as the dramatic arena.

Newer Stage Play Coverage

These links keep the stage-play route anchored in recent reviews, previews, playwriting opportunities, and Philippine theater coverage beyond Metro Manila.

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