The Conflicting Joy of ‘Here Lies Love’

HERE LIES LOVE is living proof that Filipino performers will forever be a personification of the triple threat, making this production of Here Lies Love a well-oiled musical machine of Filipino history — a Filipino history that can be difficult to watch.

“Panic at the Disco” Part II: The Beauty and Glamour of Power

“Panic at the Disco” is a new essay series that unpacks the impact of the Center Theatre Group’s new production of Here Lies Love. The critical journey will explore the complexities of artistic depictions of traumatic events and cultural figures in history and how it...

LEGEND: Judy Wong

I am currently reading "Making Rumours: The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac Album" by Book by Ken Caillat and Steve Stiefel, a recollection of the drama, drugs, make-ups, break-ups, partying, and band in-fighting that made one of the most iconic and...

MUSIC: Mazarati

When it comes to Prince protégé bands there's The Time, Vanity 6 (also Apollonia 6), The Family, and then there's the great purple one's often overlooked funk rock new wave project known as Mazarati. With The Revolution's bassist Brownmark as the producer of their...

ICON: Jocelyn Enriquez

🎶 The radio plays our favorite song  🎶 And it's what keeps me holding on 🎵 Baby, do you miss me 🎵 Now that I'm gone 🎶 Picture it: you're at the club in the '90s and this song comes on. You rush to the dance floor in your halter top and bootcut jeans to body roll...

LEGEND: D’Angelo

When the late, great musician D'Angelo (aka Michael Eugene Archer) entered the scene, he shook things up when he brought old school R&B and soul to the masses with an inimitable down and dirty grit and masculine sensitivity that ushered in the neo-soul movement...