Harana Music Festival 2026: TJ Monterde Leads the Lineup for Manila’s New Acoustic OPM Fest
Harana Music Festival 2026 bills itself as intimate and acoustic — then lists more than 10 headline-level OPM acts. Here’s the lineup, tickets, and dates.
Harana Music Festival 2026 bills itself as intimate and acoustic — then lists more than 10 headline-level OPM acts. Here’s the lineup, tickets, and dates.
Every caregiver of someone living with dementia eventually hits the same fork: correct the version of reality the person in front of them is living in, or step inside it with them. Stay a Little Longer, the newest production from 2TinCans Philippines, builds an entire play around that fork — and it doesn’t pick a side for the audience. The show runs August 29 and 30 at The Kabilin Center in Cebu City, and it arrives with a sturdier premise than most memory-loss narratives bother with. Instead of watching a woman disappear, the audience watches her stay whole — just accessible from a different angle in every scene. Grieving child. Young wife fighting to be chosen. Physician. Mother. An elderly woman trying to place the unfamiliar room around her. Same person, several timelines, one body doing all the holding. That’s a harder trick to stage than it sounds, and it’s the reason this one is worth knowing about before opening night rather than after. One Room, Every Version of Her The entire play is set …
Some plays entertain. Some plays provoke. And then there are productions like ATENG — the kind that manage to do both with disarming precision. On November 13, I attended the press preview of the show a day before its official run. You would agree with me that even from the snippets I’m sharing with you alone (see my YouTube vlog below), it was clear: panalo na. The room was alive — laughter bouncing off the walls one minute, and an almost reverent stillness the next. ATENG doesn’t simply tell a story; it pulls its audience into a memory — personal or collective — whether we are prepared for it or not. The production marks the revival of the 2005 Palanca Award-winning one-act play by Vincent de Jesus. Known for narratives that fuse wit and wounded truth, de Jesus once again offers a script that feels universal yet deeply intimate. This staging runs from November 14 to December 7 at RAMPA Drag Club, transforming a nightlife venue into a raw, compact storytelling arena. In a way, …