The director and playwright of “Dekada ’70”, Pat Valera, envisioned that his adaptation of Lualhati Bautista’s Palanca award-winning book would be watched and understood by young people. Valera and ...

Worthy, faithful but ultimately pedestrian adaptation of the prize winning novel, "Dekada 70" offers a year-by-year account of the slow political awakening of a middle-class Filipino family over a ...

Theater fans were agog yesterday over news that Black Box Productions will be re-staging Dekada ’70 (“The ’70s”), a musical adaptation of the beloved Lualhati Bautista novel of the same title. In a ...

Pat Valera's musical adaptation of Lualhati Bautista’s 1983 novel 'Dekada ’70' hits the theater stage again for a limited 3-weekend run MANILA, Philippines – The musical adaptation of Lualhati ...

The Philippine theater community gathered live once again last night at the 13th Philstage (Philippine Legitimate Stage Artists Group) Gawad Buhay Awards. It was the alliance’s first live, in-person ...

The cast and crew of the musical “Dekada ’70” knew that being part of the theatrical endeavor would entail some backlash, given the political themes of the story and its depiction of truths of the ...

Filipino singer-songwriter Zild has released his performance of ‘Dekada ‘70’ off his latest album ‘Medisina’ on the Wish 107.5 Bus. Posted onto Wish 107.5’s Official YouTube page on Saturday (November ...

Novelist Lualhati Bautista was to attend a gathering of Filipino writers at Raffles Makati on a Saturday when the skies gave way to torrential rain, flooding all roads to the venue. “I had no choice ...

MANILA, Philippines — Three digitally restored and remastered Filipino classics were recently screened at the 29th Vesoul International Film Festival in France. The digitally restored titles screened ...

Should we move on and forget about Martial Law? For playwright and Dekada '70s director Pat Valera and his team, that would be a resounding no. They're bringing back the musical adaptation of Lualhati ...

As per my impression and recollection, the ’70s was a decade of contrasting landscapes. Musically, there was the hustle, the salsa, el bimbo (which must be the tackiest in the history of dance), the ...