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PETA's CHAROT, is a musical performance and information campaign about the changes that our country is about to face depending on our voting decisions. It tells the story about the reality and differences in the society highlighting the political and social relevance to the past and present state of the nation focusing on the key cities that experience the same sentiments.

"An original satirical live show guaranteed to be brave, explosive, and delightfully entertaining! As the meme-able title implies, Trumperte is the ultimate political spoof mash-up. Here, Jon Santos inaugurates his hilarious impressions of Their Excellencies President Ronald McDonald Trump and Pangulong DuThirty along with other celebrities and other icons!"

Following its successful transition into film, the critically acclaimed and award-winning musical CHANGING PARTNERS is returning to the stage this May at the PETA Theater Center. The Journey According to multi-awarded composer and writer Vincent A. DeJesus, the book, libretto, and music of Changing Partners were inspired by his own personal stories and of his friends. When asked how long it took him to write this piece his reply was, “A lifetime.”

The Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA), recipient of the 2017 Ramon Magsaysay Awards is organizing a week-long festival that highlights the role of arts in development, as exemplified in the various advocacy campaigns the pioneering theater company has engaged in the past 50 years –Children’s Rights, Women, Gender, Health and Sexuality, Youth and the Millenials, Environment and Disaster Risk Reduction, and Human Rights.

Care divas is not a gay-only show. It's a material that encompass a diverse group of people--men, women, gays, elders, overseas workers, and employers--performed by a cast of 10. The story may have used gays as leads, but it is love that you can find in every scene and across differences. Caring is loving. It features love of caregivers to their patients, of OFWs' sacrifices for their family, of friends to each other, of a person regardless of gender, and of people everywhere we may find ourselves in. Love is heart; and it is the heart that is truly captivating in this play.

Theater in Alternative Platforms : Ampalaya Monologues There might be another Ampalaya Day in 2016 as Ampalaya Monologues just turned one year old, and they are about to put on a show this October 2016 at PETA Theater in Quezon City. Expect a night of #hugot as Theater in Alternative Platforms will wage the popular program, created by writer Mark Ghosn, in a night full of bitter stories embodied in various sets of one-person theatrical plays. 

What makes the sun rise? Brahma What is higher than the sky? Father. What is heavier than Earth? Mother What is faster than the wind? Heart What is the unending disease of man? Greed These are some of the selected questions presented in the show--in a scene at the lake where Yama, the God of death, asked Yudhisthira before he can drink from the lake and make his dead brothers come to life after failing to answer to Yama.

I have a question for you. If dove is the bird of peace, what is the bird of true love?  Don’t know?! It’s the swallow. (insert giggles here) As a theater performer way back in college, I have to say comedy and improvisation is one of the hardest, if not the hardest. No scripts, nothing planned. Just go with flow and have fun in every pun. Mind you, it takes a lot of focus, presence of mind , quick thinking and of course lots of humor to be able to present something really wacky (lest one dreams of being stumped for all the audience to see). But surely, there are a lot of people who can do this with enough poise and grace worthy of laughter, claps and respect.

Visconde Carlo San Juan Vergara or simply known as Carlo Vergara is a Filipino graphic designer and illustrator best known for creating the comic book character Zsazsa Zaturnnah. Vergara is also a theatre performer and published playwright. Here the Frequency And Answer regarding Kung Paano Ako Naging Leading Lady and ofcourse Carlo Vergara as a playwright. QUESTION:  ARTISTS (LIKE IN YOUR CASE A PLAYWRIGHT) AND ACTORS, IN PARTICULAR, TYPICALLY TALK ABOUT THAT LIFE-CHANGING REVELATION WHERE THEY DISCOVER, “THIS IS WHAT I NEED TO DO.” DID YOU EVER HAVE THAT EPIPHANY?   CARLO: For a very long time, I've never considered myself as a Writer, the kind known for artistic work. I've always been a PR writer, news writer, and feature writer because of my day jobs. (I did, however, write short plays for class presentations in high school.) It was only when my graphic novel Zsazsa Zaturnnah made a splash that I thought, “Maybe I can do this.”

COMEDY. DRAMA. ROMANCE. ACTION. DECEPTION. CONFESSIONS. SUPERHEROES. SUPERVILLAINS. FAMILY and a MAID.

The Lahing Kayumanggi Dance Company in partnership with the Philippine Baranggay Folk Dance Troupe and PETA Theater Center proudly presents “ Magkabilaan ” --- the 20th anniversary concert to pay homage to the late Dr. Paz-Cielo A. Belmonte, Founder & Artistic Director of the Philippine Baranggay Folk Dance Troupe (PBFDT). “ Magkabilaan ” shall celebrate Lahing Kayumanggi’s  and Philippine Baranggay Folk Dance Troupe’s long standing partnership and exchange programme spanning two decades. “ MAGKABILAAN ” will be held on April 25 and 26 (Friday & Saturday) --- 7:30PM at the PETA Theater located at No. 5 Eymard Drive, New Manila, Quezon City.        Special guests include the alumni of the Philippine Baranggay Folk Dance Troupe, longest folk dance company since 1946; Hail Mary The Queen Children’s Choir and talented singer / fashion designer Leo Almodal.

In celebration of its 11th year anniversary, the Silly People’s Improv Theater (SPIT) and the PETA Theater Center proudly present the Manila Improv Festival 2013 from June 26-30, 2103. The theme for this year is “Follow Your Feet”, an improvisational theater concept which also ties in with the art form’s return to PETA - the group which first introduced improvisational theater to the country in the early 1970s. As SPIT takes on a new decade of laughter and innovation, the group decided to take a bolder step in sharing the art of improv to bigger audiences through the festival and its partnership with PETA Theater Center. Gabe Mercado, artistic director of the festival and founder of SPIT describes the vision of the festival: “SPIT was founded back in June 2002, because I saw the need for a new kind of comedy—one that differed from the usual stand-up comedy routines that we are used to seeing on TV and comedy bars. Improv appealed to me because of its grounding on truth, the magic of sp...