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Pieter Toerien Presents this comedy featuring Malcolm Terrey as Carry on star, Kenneth Williams.  Just Carry on William is based on Richmal Crompton’s “Just William” stories, and is directed this time around by Alan Swerdlow. In the very early Eighties, genius comedian Kenneth Williams (“Oo-er, Matron!”) slipped into a studio to begin a legendary series of recordings of Richmal Crompton’s stories of the naughtiest boy ...

A special 55th Anniversary Celebration One night only at The Lyric Theatre, Gold Reef City Thursday 26 November at 8pm Multi Grammy Award winners Ladysmith Black Mambazo will soon be back in Jozi after a long hiatus, to celebrate their 55th Anniversary wowing audiences on music stages worldwide, in a special one night only concert to be held at The Lyric Theatre, Gold Reef City on Thursday 26 November at 8pm. An Evening with Ladysmith ...

Under the sea magic is this Christmas The Little Mermaid and her fishy friends are back at the Peoples Theatre with even more pizzazz than ever before, from 2nd November – 24thDecember. The popular theatre directors Jill Girard and Keith Smith are pros at bringing magical children’s productions to the stage and the Disney classic, The Little Mermaid is no exception. They are thrilled to be bringing it ...

ROMANCE AND LAUGHS A-PLENTY IN JANICE HONEYMAN’S PANTOMIME Theatre producer Bernard Jay is proud to announce his fifteenth collaboration with acclaimed writer/director Janice Honeyman on the annual Joburg Theatre pantomime productions. These much anticipated family entertainments have become the most popular stage shows in South Africa, each year attracting over 65,000 patrons. The evergreen tale of the beautiful princess who is cursed at her christening ...

Queen of Flanders heads to Johannesburg – Madame Zingara is in the City of Gold for the festive season! The Queen of Flanders, Madame Zingara’s opulent new spiegelpaleis, will be at Montecasino in Johannesburg from next month, in time for the festive season! After a sell out three month season in Cape Town, the Queen bids a royal farewell to the Mother City and heads ...

with Rocco de Villiers on piano As always, popular pianist Rocco de Villiers brings an instrumental show with the piano center stage and the biggest star of the show. ALL ABOUT THE PIANO pays tribute to the most popular instrument of all – the piano.  A celebration of the most beautiful melodies. Some sentimental, some nostalgic, some modern, some shockingly old –fashioned, some quirky, some ...

Zoinks! Mystery-Soling Chills and Thrills coming to Johannesburg and Cape Town in the All-New Scooby-Doo Live Musical Mysteries     The much-loved Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Inc. Gang take centre stage in an all-new family musical, SCOOBY-DOO LIVE! MUSICAL MYSTERIES, presented by Warner Bros, Life Like Touring, and Airey Scott Entertainment, in association with Boomerang and DSTV. Featuring everyone’s favourite characters from one of television’s longest-running animated series, ...

Uys puts the eish! back into entertainment with pick-a-box bonanza As he prepares to turn 70 in sensational style this September, satirist extraordinaire Pieter-Dirk Uys is placing the power squarely in Johannesburg audiences’ hands. Now, if only the politicians he lampoons so mercilessly would follow suit… Uys’s smash hit show An Audience with Pieter-Dirk Eish! returns by massive public demand to invade the main stage ...

Fire in the Ballroom The true rebels of ballroom “Burn the Floor” are heading back to Joburg with a stunning new production. Audiences will be thrilled with the news that Strictly Come Dancing runner up, Johannes Radebe, will be joining the cast as a fully-fledged part of this international dance sensation. Burn The Floor – “Fire in the Ballroom” will run on the Mandela stage at Joburg Theatre, Braamfontein for a limited season ...

JOE SATRIANI Extends European Tour With DAN PATLANSKY As Special Guest in 10 Countries / 25 Shows / 33 Days JOE SATRIANI has extended the dates featuring DAN PATLANSKY as special guest on the European leg of his Shockwave Tour 2015. The legendary artist and performer announced award-winning singer-songwriter/blues-rock guitarist DAN PATLANSKY as special guest in 10 European countries. DAN will now be playing with ...

SPUD Star to play “This Boy” in BEATLES play:  EPSTEIN The Man Who Made The Beatles,  Studio Theatre, Montecasino from 12 August Epstein: The Man Who Made The Beatles is a window into the private world of the music entrepreneur whose stellar career as Beatles Manager made him a household name yet whose controversial personal life remained very much in the closet. Brian died in ...

An Evening with Bob Fox One of the UK’s finest exponents of storytelling through song, BOB FOX is deeply influenced by the working class culture and industrial folk song prevalent in his native County Durham. For over 40 years he has toured extensively throughout the UK, Europe, USA, New Zealand and Australia, performing mostly solo but also alongside such musical heavyweights as Ralph McTell, Richard ...

Globally Acclaimed Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is Non-Stop Extraordinary Entertainment!  The highly acclaimed New York-based Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, one of the world’s most popular global modern dance companies, returns to South Africa in September after 17 years with 13 performances in Johannesburg at the Teatro at Montecasino from Thursday, 3 September to Sunday, 13 September 2015 and seven shows in Cape Town ...

Modern Ballet in the 7th Celebration Edition of Joburg Ballet. With winter nearly behind us, Joburg Ballet is gearing up to present a bumper Spring Season at the Joburg Theatre from 28 August to 13 September.  No fewer than three programmes – Celebration 7, Don Quixote and Gauteng Opera’s Double Bill spread over 15 performances, embrace a wide range of audience tastes, from classical ballet ...

A Salute to the King!  After the tremendously successful staging of Queen At The Ballet at Joburg Theatre in March/April 2014, Bovim Ballet will soon be returning to Johannesburg to provide audiences with more thrill-a-minute performances! Sean Bovim’s latest Rock-‘n-Roll Ballet, Private Presley – A Salute to the King, features over 30 of Elvis Presley’s hit songs including Love Me Tender, Jailhouse Rock, Blue Suede Shoes, A Little Less Conversation, Hound Dog and ...

Classical Don Quixote opens in the Joburg Ballet’s Spring Season Following Joburg Ballet’s spectacular Swan Lake in April and May, the ballet company’s Spring Season opens at the Joburg Theatre on Friday 28 August with the sparkling ballet classic, Don Quixote.  A further eight performances of Don Quixote follow, with the season ending on Sunday 13 September.  Also scheduled for the Spring Season is Celebration ...

The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Jonathan Roxmouth and Charon Williams-Ros will be starring in Sweeney Todd, when Pieter Toerien brings this Stephen Sondheim’s iconic musical thriller to the Montecasino Theatre from 9 October 2015 till 13 December 2015. Featuring sublime theatrics, a thrilling, chilling story, suspense, passion, deliciously dark humour, with a score and lyrics that have taken on iconic status, directed and designed by ...

Cape Town City Ballet dances Noël Coward’s ‘THE VORTEX’. Choreographed by Marc Goldberg. Under the artistic direction of Elizabeth Triegaardt Pieter Toerien’s Montecasino Theatre 12 August – 23 August Pieter Toerien is proud to present Cape Town City Ballet in MARC GOLDBERG’s dance adaptation of Noël Cowards controversial play ‘The Vortex’. The ballet explores themes of drug addiction in 1920’s high society; adultery; aging and dysfunctional ...

Duo of Firsts for the Teatro and Musical Theatre star, Jonathan Roxmouth Following sold-out performances of his smash hit show Stage by Stage in Durban, Cape Town and Johannesburg earlier this year, and in a first for the Teatro and Jonathan Roxmouth, the multi-award winning star of local theatre will perform three concerts entitled From the Footlights, featuring a variety of hits from internationally acclaimed Broadway and West End ...

World Class Ice Skaters Take Swan Lake to New Heights in Breath-Taking new Production!  The world’s premier theatrical ice skating company, The Imperial Ice Stars, returns to South Africa with a dynamic new interpretation of its award-winning masterpiece Swan Lake on Ice.  Opening in December for a limited season at Johannesburg’s Teatro at Montecasino before moving to Cape Town for a season at Artscape Opera ...

The Joburg Theatre is proud to host the biggest SA Musical of the year, opening July, 2015.

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’n Komedie met baie draaie en swaaie… Dis amper tyd vir ’n lekker volwasse komedie, met baie kinkels… Twee vir die prys van een is ’n slimsnaakse, vars, uitbundige komedie met onverwagse wendings; geskryf deur die bekende Britse dramaturg Donald Churchill. Die stuk is in Afrikaans vertaal deur Wim Vorster. In die rolverdeling is Hannes Muller (Groet die grotman), Lizz Meiring (Cheaper than Roses, Molly ...

Let's get it on - The Life and music of Marvin Gaye, as portrait by Lloyd Cele

CELEBRATE MAGICAL FAMILY VALUE PACKAGES FROM DISNEY ON ICE Showtime Management and Feld Entertainment are delighted to announce new fantastic family value packages for Disney On Ice presents “Let’s Celebrate”. This spectacular ice show, which features more than 50 classic and contemporary Disney characters in a captivating compilation of favorite holidays and celebrations from around the globe, will arrive at The Dome, Johannesburg from Friday, 26 June ...

PYTHONESQUE Roy Smile’s MONTY PYTHON Biography Directed By Alan Swerdlow Starring Graham Hopkins as John Cleese, Theo Landey as Terry Gilliam and Eric Idle, Robert Fridjhon as Terry Jones and Michael Palin, and Russel Savadier as Graham Chapman. Playwright ROY SMILES’ brilliant and irreverent history of comedy comes to a fitting climax with his ingenious and hysterically funny PYTHONESQUE. Having conjured up the spirit of ...

Lord Of The Dance: Dangerous Games - a spectacular new staging of the traditional masterpiece, is coming to Johannesburg

This Splash Hit Musical is coming to the Teatro in 2016 Singin’ in the Rain, another critically acclaimed award-winning production direct from London’s West End, will be produced and presented in South Africa by Pieter Toerien at the Artscape Opera House and the Teatro at Montecasino between December 2015 and January 2016, immediately after its international tour to New Zealand, Hong Kong, the Philippines and ...

Joburg Ballet joins forces with major Chinese ballet company for new Swan Lake Reciprocating Joburg Ballet’s visit to China for the Year of South Africa in China in 2014, 21 dancers from the Liaoning Ballet of China arrive in Johannesburg early in April to join forces with Joburg Ballet for the grandest production of Swan Lake yet seen in South Africa. Swan Lake is presented by Joburg Ballet ...

This world class production will mesmerise audiences in a celebration of dance at its best.