Theatre Group Asia Unveils Its 2026-27 Season
Theatre Group Asia (TGA) has unveiled its 2026–27 season lineup, featuring three productions that will be staged in the Philippines for the first time.
TGA Creative and Overall Artistic Director Clint Ramos shares, “TGA’s 2026–27 honors three unforgettable, powerful stories that stir, challenge, and transform. This season places the human capacity to influence through love, survival, and creation on center stage. While each production proudly spotlights artists and narratives, the season ultimately celebrates something even greater: the power every person holds to shape hearts, defy limits, and leave a lasting mark.”
Opening the season in September 2026 is The Notebook: The Musical, which makes its international premiere in Manila. Featuring music and lyrics by Ingrid Michaelson and a book by Bekah Brunstetter, the musical debuted in 2022 at Chicago Shakespeare Theater under the direction of Michael Greif and Schele Williams.
While the story is best known through the 2004 film adaptation starring Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams, the stage version expands the narrative by portraying Allie and Noah at different stages of their lives, foregrounding themes of memory, aging, and devotion.
In February 2027, TGA presents Ang Tahanan ni Bernarda Alba, a Filipino-language staging of Federico García Lorca’s final play. While the work has previously been staged in the Philippines—most recently in 2019 under a different version—this production marks the Philippine premiere of Chay Yew’s adaptation, translated into Filipino by Guelan Varela-Luarca.
Written shortly before Lorca’s death, the play premiered posthumously in Buenos Aires in 1945 under the direction of Margarita Xirgu. The story follows Bernarda Alba, who enforces an eight-year mourning period on her daughters after her husband’s death, ruling her household through fear, tradition, and repression. Beneath the suffocating silence of the household, desire and rebellion grow until the family is driven toward tragedy. Frequently adapted for stage and film, Bernarda Alba examines authoritarian control, patriarchy, and social conformity.
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Concluding the season in June 2027 is Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Sunday in the Park with George. The musical premiered on Broadway in 1984 under Lapine’s direction and drew attention for its intellectual scope and emotional focus, even as it challenged conventional musical theater audiences. Inspired by Georges Seurat’s painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, the work centers on an artist consumed by the act of creation and the personal costs that accompany it. A parallel narrative set a century later addresses questions of legacy and innovation, and the enduring question of what it means to make meaningful art. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1985, Sunday in the Park with George remains a key work in Sondheim and Lapine’s collaborations.
TGA’s Season 2026-27 is made possible with the support of Ayala Land, BPI, and Philippine Airlines. For more information, visit TGA’s website www.theatregroupasia.com, Instagram @theatregroupasia, or Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/theatregroupasia.
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