BONGGANG SIDE-BY-SIDE: Jon Santos returns to the stage with The Sandbox Collective’s Bawat Bonggang Bagay and Side Show!

A Bonggang Pagbabalik for Pride Month

Multimedia artist, comedy icon, and master impersonator Jon Santos will reprise his role as The Sandbox Collective restages a strictly limited run of its hit one-act play, BAWAT BONGGANG BAGAY (BBB).

Presented by The Sandbox Collective’s new arm, Sandbox Co.labs, in partnership with Ayala Land and Circuit Makati, BBB will bring back its hilarious and heart-warming portrayal of love, loss, and mental health to Filipino audiences.

In celebration of Pride Month 2025, BBB returns after its sold out engagements in 2023 and 2024. This year’s BBB also marks Santos’ fourth run of the show.

BAWAT BONGGANG BAGAY is the Filipino-translated staging of Duncan Macmillan and Jonny Donahoe’s Every Brilliant Thing. Award-winning playwright, translator, actor, and director Guelan Luarca worked on its translation and original staging in 2023. BBB is an intimate and interactive play that follows the story of a young child growing up with a parent suffering from mental illness. The show continues the conversation on mental health by bringing real and pressing issues to the forefront, and by creating a safe and communal space where audiences become part and parcel of the storytelling.

PLDT-Smart Gabay Kalikasan premieres a musical revue billed

‘Songs for a Changed World: COVID and Climate Change’ on June 5 on FB and YouTube

In celebration of World Environment Day (WED) 2020 this Friday, June 5, PLDT and Smart, through Gabay Kalikasan, premieres a timely and relevant all-original musical revue billed “Songs for a Changed World: COVID and Climate Change.”

The Gabay Kalikasan show will feature popular music interpreted by outstanding talents in Philippine theater, specifically the cast and production team behind the widely successful musical “Ang Huling El Bimbo.”

“Songs for A Changed World,” with concept and libretto by Floy Quintos, musical direction by Myke Salomon and direction by Dexter Santos, will be streamed on the Gabay Kalikasan Facebook page and YouTube channel at 8 p.m.

WTF! Wala Talagang Forever, the celebrated Jon Santos comedy show, lands a new home this 2016!

Jon wields his riotous brand of satirical laughter to inaugurate the brand-new Ceremonial Hall of the Marriott Grand Ballroom, Resorts World Manila, on the nights of Feb 17,18,19,20,24,25,26 and 27, and on Mar 4, 5, and 6, with his latest send-ups of the most notorious and hilarious politicians, celebrities, stars and wannabes that crowd the Philippine headlines this season.

WTF! Wala Talagang Forever, turbo-charged with new punches and targets, features the even wilder adventures of presidential aspirant Miriam Da Defensive Defender as she corrects Miss Universe Pia Horseback on her answers on the US Bases issue. Concert goddess Majonna reveals her shocking discoveries about the sensual possibilities of balut and ube ice cream during her Philippine tour. Future ex-president Pi-Nyoy spills the beans on his post-Malacanang plans, and it includes marriage to this mystery girl! Resurgent Grace Foe wrecks revenge on her DQ attackers in a way that puts FPJ’s action scenes to shame. Is Diyoning, the big bad mama of Pakyaw, still with her cougar ways? Is Ate Vi, running for senator, or running away from the ballot?