Oliver Oliveros

Manila, Philippines—“The Notebook,” the hit Broadway musical based on Nicolas Sparks’ 1996 bestseller, featuring music and lyrics by American singer-songwriter Ingrid Michaelson (“The Way I Am,” “Girls Chase Boys”) and a book by American playwright and screenwriter Bekah Brunstetter (“F*cking Art,” “The Cake,”), is making its first international premiere at the Samsung Performing Arts Theater this September.

Manila, Philippines—Broadway alums Lissa deGuzman (Elphaba) and Allie Trimm (Glinda) last shared the stage as musical theater’s most popular witches about a year ago. But when the green curtain fell and the emerald lights dimmed, you let fate and magic bring these two talented ladies back on stage.

Manila, Philippines—There is a distinct, visceral magic that happens when a story leaps across oceans and lands perfectly in our own vernacular. In 9 Works Theatrical’s production of “Yemaya”—adapted from Quiara Alegría Hudes’s “Yemaya’s Belly” and translated into Filipino by Eljay Castro Deldoc—the foreign becomes familiar, blurring the lines between a harsh reality and a dream-like, mythic landscape.