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Review: Dancing With Dictators in David Byrne’s ‘Here Lies Love’

A new Broadway musical tells the disturbing story of Imelda Marcos by putting her, and the audience, in a disco.

By Jesse Green

Filipino-Americans Here Lies Love (Play) Llana, Jose Marcos, Ferdinand Marcos, Imelda Ramos, Clint Ricamora, Conrad Salonga, Lea Theater Timbers, Alex

For Filipino Audiences, ‘Here Lies Love’ Offers Emotional Rip Currents

For viewers as well as the all-Filipino cast, the musical about the Marcoses’ rise to power is a rare chance to commune, and revisit, together, a not-too-distant past.

By Melena Ryzik