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A new show about forgetting, forgiving, remembering, faking, making-up and doing. Here we have a fun-filled entertainment show with Pieter-Dirk Uys and other darlings. Sometimes politics repeats itself, not only taking history and turning it into farce, but taking farce and turning into the fake news which is now called entertainment. Pieter-Dirk Uys is sorting out 40 years of distress, disguise and disgust: from apartheid ...

The Fugard Theatre and The Royal Shakespeare Company Present Kunene and the King Eric Abraham presents a Fugard Theatre and Royal Shakespeare Company co-production of Kunene and the King, the new play by John Kani. Kunene and the King, comes to The Fugard Theatre in April 2019, hot off its world premiere at The Royal Shakespeare Company’s Swan Theatre, in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. This moving and funny two-hander ...

Another First for South Africa in 2018 Big Concerts and A Live Nation Company have announced that Cartoon Network Live! will be coming to South Africa for the very first time over the winter school holidays. This brand new live show will be coming to Cape Town from 26th June 2018 at the Grand Arena, GrandWest and Johannesburg from 3rd July 2018 at Montecasino. Cartoon Network, 947, KFM ...

Live voting, Same-day live results for Dancing With The Stars SA! Pre-register NOW to vote for your favourite celebrities and their dancing partners! For the first time in the history of M-Net 101, the channel will announce the voting results of a reality show on the same night of its live broadcast throughout the voting season. That’s why M-Net 101 is introducing an exciting – and controlled – new voting mechanism for Dancing With The ...

Nominees for the 53rd annual Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards announced: The Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards announced its nominees for 2017. These annual awards are regarded amongst the most valued and prestigious in the South African performing arts industry. This year’s ceremony will take place on Sunday, 18 March at 17:30 at the Baxter Theatre Centre in Cape Town and promises to be an “Elegantly ...

More Mark Madness At the Pieter Toerien Studio. Comedy icon, Mark Banks returns in an all-new show with a difference. In a time when there are solo stand-up shows flooding the market, Mark has written this reflective piece of brilliance that shares true-life comedy moments for his life. Starring out-of-towners, celebrities, business figures, politicians and other interesting South Africans – all recounted by a modern ...

Multiple award-winning star Desmond Dube joins cast of Fugard’s acclaimed King Kong. Multiple award-winning actor and popular TV and film star Desmond Dube has joined the cast of the Fugard Theatre’s hit production of the iconic South African musical King Kong.  Dube has stepped into the central role of Pop in the production, which is currently playing at the Fugard Theatre in Cape Town, having been ...

M-Net Movies celebrates Hollywood’s finest with special Oscars pop-up channel. 115 Academy Award winning films, 757 Oscar nominations, 306 golden statuettes – that’s what movie buffs will be treated to on one channel in the month of February. Get the popcorn ready for a dazzling M-Net Movies Oscars pop-up treat on channel 109 on DStv. Leading up to 2018’s landmark 90th annual Academy Awards taking place at the ...

Vinyl is Hip and Happening on a Sunday! Joburg`s premier monthly Vinyl Fair returns to The Beer Yard at 44 Stanley Avenue in trendy Auckland Park on Sunday 4th February 2018. The Fair, which takes place on the first Sunday of every month, brings together 12 of Joburg`s top record dealers offering the best in new and pre-owned rock, soul, pop, jazz, folk, blues and world ...

Sizzling start to Joburg Ballet’s 2018 season! Casting announced for leading roles Joburg Ballet opens a bumper 2018 year in sizzling style when the company brings South African choreographer Veronica Paeper’s production of Carmen to Joburg Theatre for ten performances from 6 to 15 April. Joburg Ballet will perform to live orchestral accompaniment for the first time in many years, when the launched Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra (JPO) ...

Seeing is Believing – First SA appearance for Dynamo! He’s walked on water across the river Thames, levitated in front of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro and walked down the outside of the L.A times building; he’s predicted the Soccer World Cup outcome and taken a trip on the side of a bus. This global television star, international brand ambassador, author and stage ...

With compliments of Joburg Theatre, we are giving away a Double Ticket to The Color Purple, soon to be staged on the Mandela Stage at the Joburg Theatre Complex.  The lucky winner stand a chance to attend the performance on Tuesday, 6 February, at 20:00. The Color Purple, as a musical, was originally produced on Broadway in 2005, by a team of producers, including Oprah Winfrey and received eleven Tony nominations.  Now, this ...

Ultra SA finalizes 5th Year line-up. This year’s Ultra will take place at the Cape Town Stadium on Friday, 9 February, and in Johannesburg, at the Nasrec Expo Centre, on Saturday, 10 February 2018.  Check out the Official Aftermovie of Ultra 2017. As ULTRA South Africa 2018 draws nearer, the festival’s line-up continues to grow even more impressive. Calling on a diverse selection of star-studded ...

Hedwig to WOW Joburg after Rave Reviews in Cape Town. Brilliantly innovative, heart breaking, and wickedly funny, Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a landmark musical by John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask that is “ground breaking and undoubtedly ahead of its time” (Entertainment Weekly). This genre-bending, fourth-wall-smashing musical sensation, with its pulsing score and electrifying performances, tells the story of one of the most unique characters ...

M-Net Channels Showcase Proudly South African TV. Popular local television channels M-Net, Mzansi Magic, Mzansi Bioskop, Mzansi Wethu, kykNET and kykNET & kie have two things in common; They all belong to the proudly South African M-Net stable of channels on DStv and in 2018, and they will all debut a slate of hot new original television productions. Capitalizing on the abundance of talent and ...

Celebrate Love, and the Blues with the NIROX Foundation.  Single? By Choice, or not? Dreading the upcoming Valentine’s day blues? Well, whatever emotions this day awake, why don’t combining both and celebrate life, loving Valentine’s day, and the Blues, as the NIROX Foundation hosts a stellar line-up of acoustic musicians, gourmet food traders & restaurateurs, a full bar, and a selection of sumptuous desserts. Featuring ...

Nuwe Stêrbelaaide reeks op KykNet. In Episode 1 wil Naomi Fortuin by haar veiligheidswag-seun Skalkie weet: “Wat vir ‘n ding is ‘n knapsekêrel?” En hy antwoord: “Dis ’n guard wat aan sy mission klou soos mis aan ‘n wolkombers.” Bekroonde skrywer, Paul C. Venter en regisseur en vervaardiger, Human Stark, snoer weer kragte saam na die sukses van Vlug na Egipte en Terug na Egipte ...

Just when you thought Politics could not get any sillier…. Inspired by the shenanigans in the South African Parliament, Point of Order is a comedy panel show that allows SA’s top comedians and special celebrity guests to talk politics like real MPs, perhaps with a little more sense and sensibility. The panellists also get to debate important and vital new laws – like why South Africa would ...

Hilarious Hypnotist Celebrates 25 Years on Stage. There’s no better way to chase away the January “back to work” blues than by enjoying one of South Africa’s funniest entertainers, Andre The Hilarious Hypnotist as he returns for a limited season to Montecasino’s Studio Theatre from Friday 19th January – Sunday 25th February 2018. Andre The Hilarious Hypnotist celebrates a record breaking 25 years on stage as South Africa’s very own convener of the ...

Alan Committie returns with his Brand New and Hilarious Stand up Show. Planet Mirth is a funny look at everything…in HD! It’s the start of a new year which means it’s time for SA funnyman Alan Committie to bring us another hilarious look at the world around us…. In this, his 20th one man comedy show, Committie presents a docu-comedy in the highest definition and promises everything ...

Glamourous Extravaganza to hit Channel 101.  Early in 2018, M-Net 101 will be adding yet another spectacular show to its sizzling Sunday night line-up. Late in 2017, the channel confirmed that, with the help of highly skilled professional Latin and Ballroom dancers, 12 untrained local celebrities will be putting their best foot forward to compete in a proudly South African version of the BBC Worldwide ...

Collective Soul to tour SA with Special Guest Lifehouse. Big Concerts has announced that Collective Soul will be returning to South Africa supported by very special guests Lifehouse. Collective Soul, the multi-platinum rock band, responsible for seven #1 hits starting with 1993’s anthemic hit “Shine” and onto “December,” “The World I Know,” that led to a duet with Elton John, a song on the hit Twilight soundtrack, ...

SA Stars Shine Bright in Hollywood Feature. What would you do if your husband’s life suddenly changed irrevocably and he is about to give up hope? You take over and give him strength to go on by loving him unconditionally, just like Diana Cavendish did in this inspiring true story that is coming to life on the big screen soon. Breath is actor Andy Serkis’s’s ...

A Better World Tour Coming to Pretoria and Cape Town. Few artists can lay claim to international success spanning three decades, but Chris De Burgh has achieved precisely that. The legendary artist will be performing two shows in South Africa in support of his new album, “A Better World”. ‘Spanish Train and Other Stories’ was Chris’ first major hit in SA and the first single ...

SA Movie shortlisted for Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. INXEBA (The Wound), the debut feature from director John Trengrove, is among the 9 films shortlisted for the 90th Academy Awards Foreign Language Film Category. The 9 finalists for nominations in 2017 are South-Africa, “Inxeba”, John Trengrove, director Chile, “A Fantastic Woman”, Sebastián Lelio, director Germany, “In the Fade”, Faith Akin, director Hungary, “On Body and ...

PinkDay: A celebration of the human spirit to overcome breast cancer. It’s a day when survivors, friends, family, and complete strangers dress up in pink in support of breast cancer sufferers and their families. It’s also a day that we remember, joyously, the brave people who lost their battle to it.  It’s the day when we paint Jo’burg pink to raise funds for breast cancer ...

Top US Talent Agency signs the Wound Director, John Trngrove. Creative Artists Agency (CAA) in Los Angeles, the world’s leading entertainment and sports agency, has signed South African filmmaker John Trengove. The director of Inxeba (The Wound), finds now himself in the company of the most successful filmmakers of our time, including Ava DuVernay (Selma), Barry Jenkins (Moonlight) and Steven Spielberg (most recently, The Post). ...

Santana Returns to SA with special Guests Mango Groove.  Big Concerts is pleased to confirm that Santana will be returning to South Africa in 2018 performing in Cape Town on 11th April 2018 at Cape Town Stadium and Johannesburg on 13th and 14th April 2018 at the Ticketpro Dome. Santana’s special guests will be local greats Mango Groove.  This Big Concert Experience is presented by CapeTalk, 702 and Channel ...

Biggest Line-Up Yet, comes to Pretoria! One of South Africa’s longest running flagship comedy brands, Kings & Queens of Comedy, is here again, with its biggest line-up in six years.  Bringing world-class comedy to Pretoria, this comedy extravaganza sees comic giants from around South Africa entertaining audiences at the Sun Arena Time Square, Menlyn, on Saturday, February 10th, 2018. Shining their comical armour and sharpening their witty swords, ...

Introducing the Color Purple’s Celie and Shug Avery In August 2016, director Janice Honeyman, executive producer Bernard Jay and musical director Rowan Bakker embarked on a search for the two women who would be chosen to play the lead roles of Celie and Shug Avery in the Tony Award winning musical The Color Purple, to be staged for the first time in South Africa in 2018 ...