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CHANGE YOUR LIFE… ‘We are faced with challenges that want to break us every day. Maybe instead of facing the challenges, we need to break the face?’ – Brett Retired bouncer and now motivational speaker, Brett, is a man on a mission- to help you break your face- the same face that’s been stopping you from realising your full potential. Having recently returned from a ...

Not everyone you lose is a loss! Legendary South African actor, Tobie Cronjé is best known for his roles in the television series Louis Motors, Manakwalanners, Onder Draai die Duiwel Rond and Egoli. He will for the first time appear on the Market Theatre stage in the premiere of award winning playwright Retief Scholtz’s new play, Karel se Oupa. This is the second play by ...

Mystery Theatre coming to JHB and CT VR Theatrical, by special arrangement with Samuel French Inc present The Mystery of Irma Vep, in Johannesburg and Cape Town from 5 July 2017, starring Jonathan Roxmouth & Weslee Swain Lauder. Jonathan Roxmouth (Sweeney Todd, Phantom of the Opera, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat), one of the biggest names in South African theatre, stars with the inimitable Weslee Swain Lauder (Sweeney ...

Celebrate Fathers’ Day at the Nirox Sculpture Park on the 18th of June 2017. They have the ability to silence a room with one single note, one single movement of their wrist, one single prolonged sound – they are the Guitar Giants of South Africa. acousticsNOW together with the Nirox Foundation, Caleo Wealth Management and Mini present the fourth instalment of the Guitar Giants Festival at the Nirox Sculpture Park ...

Forte Academy of Performing Arts presents another show stopper. Music Legends is a tribute show with medleys featuring some of the best hits of al time.  These song favourites, including ABBA, Queen, Bon Jovi, Celine Dion, Tina Turner, Michael Jackson, etc, have been placed together to create the most entertaining and enjoyable evening featuring the performers of #FAPA. Showing off some skilled and coached vocal ...

New Rockwood Theatre in Pretoria Tom and Ann Muller, owners of the Pretoria Barnyard for the past 15 years, are excited to announce that the venue will be changing its name to the Rockwood Theatre as of the 1st June and they will, in future be staging their own productions, the first being A Beautiful Noise which will be on stage from 1st June until 30th July. Rockwood Theatre’s shows as from June 2017 will be produced and ...

A Beautiful Noise launches Rockwood Theatre in Pretoria The first show to be staged at the newly Rockwood Theatre by this dynamic team is A Beautiful Noise – a long awaited tribute to country, folk and acoustic rock singers who have been making waves and influencing the music industry over many decades. For nearly a century, this genre of music has been topping charts not only in America, but globally making artists ...

Evota Bezuidenhout tramples where Comrades fear to Tread! First there was ‘Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom’.  Soon there will be ‘Harry Potter & the Houses of Parliament’.  Now you have ‘Evita Bezuidenhout & the Kaktus of Separate Development’. Do we have to break news in order to heal a nation?  How much of our past is Fake News?  How much of our present ...

JONATHAN ROXMOUTH to return with an even bigger Broadway Concert in July 2017! For FOUR PERFORMANCES ONLY, one of South Africa’s most versatile Musical Theatre Stars – Jonathan Roxmouth – takes to the magnificent TEATRO stage to perform all your favourite Broadway hits – accompanied by a full 45-piece orchestra! Presented by Pieter Toerien, and featuring the cream of South Africa’s musicians and performers, JONATHAN ...

Add-Life Produksies se nuwe Panto bring kleur en klank deur Coen Jacobs Sprokiesverhale met hul elemente van woude, kastele, waters en koninkryke is al vir duisende jare deel van elke kultuur, veral stories wat op die verhoog in soveel vorms vertel word. Een van die bekendste sprokies, Doringrosie; Die slapende Skone, het pas geopen as die derde Afrikaanse pantomime deur Add-Life Produksies, na die sukesvolle ...

Three SA Dance Companies Collaborate on New Major Ballet. Joburg Ballet will collaborate with two other leading South African dance companies – Moving Into Dance Mophatong and Vuyani Dance Theatre – on a major new production opening on Friday 28 July 2017 when Big City, Big Dreams has its world premiere at Joburg Theatre. Celebrated actress and director Fiona Ramsay is working with a creative team drawn ...

The Magic of Smurf Village comes to South Africa for the first time ever. “La-la-la-la-la-la, sing a happy song.  La-la-la-la-la-la, Smurf the whole day long!”  A song that generations of fans have come to love and with a little sprinkle of magic dust, South African audiences will soon be transported into the magical world of colourful mushroom houses and little blue people when The Smurfs Live ...

HAMLET returns to South Africa for limited Runs in Cape Town and Joburg before heading off to the USA After playing to 5 star reviews and standing ovations at the National Arts Festival and in Europe, Pieter Toerien proudly presents a limited season of Abrahamse & Meyer’s internationally acclaimed Hamlet at Montecasino in May! The Abrahamse & Meyer production takes its inspiration from one of the earliest recorded ...

Revised casting for La Traviata – The Ballet New productions – Big  City, Big Dreams & Snow White – announced for 2017 Guest artists Juan Pablo Ledo from Buenos Aires and Daniel Szybkowski from Cape Town City Ballet join Joburg Ballet’s dancers in the casting line-up for the company’s 10-performances of La Traviata – The Ballet at Joburg Theatre from 31 March to 9 April. Due to the departure of Dayana Acuna ...

A journey to the heart of fabulous:  Hit Musical makes its SA debut with local cast. Priscilla Queen of the Desert The Musical originally opened in Australia in 2006 and after a sell-out two year run, opened on London’s West End followed by Broadway in New York. The show continues to wow audiences across the globe with recent return tours to the UK, Australia and New Zealand. ...

Pieter Toerien presents the Funniest Comedy Ever on Stage! In the words of Pieter Toerien – “The Play that Goes Wrong is the Funniest play I have ever seen!” Joanna Lumley came out a recent London performance and said: “We laughed until the tears ran down our faces! It has to be seen!!!” What’s on Stage said “It’s as though The Mousetrap has been taken over by Monty ...

Lost Male Music Legends come alive through their Greatest Hits This spectacular tribute show is headlined by West End and Broadway star and international recording artist MiG Ayesa, alongside fabulous local talents, Connell Cruise, Kurt Herman and John Tsenoli In celebration ofher 25th Anniversary in the Entertainment Industry, Collett Dawson of The CoLab Network launches a series of concerts entitled Gone too Soon – shows that will pay homage ...

Original cast reunites for 10th SA Anniversary with RENT IN CONCERT Save the date! Showtime Management’s 10th Anniversary Production of Rent  in Concert takes place at Montecasino’s Teatro on Monday, 15 May 2017 at 8pm. Tickets are now on sale at Computicket.  Presented by Showtime Management, this celebratory one night fund-raising concert features the much loved iconic and popular numbers from the stage production of Rent including ...

A Sensory Symphonic Sensation Building on the success of their dynamic collaboration in 2016, the Johannesburg Youth Orchestra Company joins forces once again with Born To Perform for three shows only in A Night with the Stars at The Lyric Theatre at Gold Reef City from Friday 19 – Sunday 21 May in the celebration of vibrant young talent. The Johannesburg Youth Orchestra Company (JYOC) is a full symphony orchestra and is without doubt, one of Jozi’s ...

Michael Flatley’s Lord of the Dance Returns due to Popular Demand Michael Flatley’s Lord of the Dance: Dangerous Games is a spectacular staging of the traditional master piece. With all the precision and thrills of the original, Lord of the Dance: Dangerous Games features new staging, new costumes and choreography. The show features cutting edge technology including a giant Radiant flat screen that spans the ...

A One-Man Memoir with Pieter-Dirk Uys After sell out seasons in Cape Town in 2016, Pieter-Dirk Uys brings his acclaimed one-man memoir The Echo of a Noise to Johannesburg! Having performed alone on the stages of the world for well over seven thousand times, Pieter-Dirk Uys has learnt that every show is the first and the last performance – because each audience demands and gets ...

The Full Morty and Live Jukebox double up on the fun in one weekend. After highly successful seasons of both their hit shows The Full Morty and Live Jukebox and the demand to bring the shows back, Ginger Cube Productions are doing just that and giving audiences a double dose of fun over one weekend with the re-staging of both shows – for one night ...

South Africans and US Filmmakers Bridge the Cultural Divide. Altovise Lawrence, winner of the first season of Top Actor South Africa, stars as leading lady, ‘Bailey’ in the romantic comedy Love By Chance by award-winning international film and television producer and director Samad Davis. The film is a pioneer in the eyes of Davis because it combines South African an US talent   Starring alongside ...

7th week added due to incredible demand – Last chance to see the global phenomenon Johannesburg: 7th February 2017 – 18th March 2017 – FINAL WEEK ADDED Cape Town: 21st March 2017 – 26th March 2017 Big Concerts International is thrilled to announce that a seventh and final week has been added to the Blue Man Group run in Johannesburg at the Teatro at Montecasino from the 30th March until the ...

Wonderful Family Value Packages from Disney on Ice Disney On Ice soon returns to South Africa with The Wonderful World of Disney On Ice!  Families are invited to celebrate magic, spirit, and fun as an extraordinary lineup of Disney stories come to life in Johannesburg, Cape Town and, for the very first time, Durban! Presented by Feld Entertainment Inc and leading local promoter, Showtime Management, The Wonderful ...

Andre the Hilarious Hypnotist is back at his FAVOURITE Theatre! If a night of good, old fashioned family fun is what you are looking for, look no further than Andre the Hilarious Hypnotist. Andre is back with his side splitting one-man show (or should that be one man and a heap of volunteers). Trained by the world’s greatest hypnotist, Max Collie, Andre is best known ...

Back by HUGE demand from 1 February! Alan Committie – the star of the hit show DEFENDING THE CAVEMAN – has decided that after 941 performances of the record-breaking comedy, it’s time to take a fresh look at relationships in 2016… With a comic, honest and sometimes even touching examination of couples, our “Caveman” Committie will continue to explore the mad differences between men and ...

Experience Awesome – South African Tour Announced Big Concerts International is thrilled to announce that BLUE MAN GROUP the wildly popular, award-winning global phenomenon will be visiting South Africa for the first time as part of a new World Tour from February – March 2017.  The acclaimed stage show, best known and recognised for its trio of bald and blue performers, will be coming to ...

STELLAR CAST ANNOUNCED FOR THE FUGARD THEATRE’S SMASH HIT MUSICAL WEST SIDE STORY After receiving rave reviews across the board from critics and audiences alike, Eric Abraham and the Fugard Theatre’s grand-scale, smash hit, all South African production of West Side Story will be presented at the Mandela Theatre at the Joburg Theatre by popular demand from 24 January 2017. West Side Story ended a staggeringly successful, sold-out run at ...

Sherlock Holms and the Curse of the Queen’s Diamond An Unrecorded Case, By Royal Request; A Ridiculously Funny Comedy! Simply Magical! Written by acclaimed playwright, Robert Fridjhon, comes a very funny and absurdly inventive tale of the one case the British Empire never wanted mentioned, or written about. Ever. Starring award-winning Robert Fridjhon, whose impressive list of theatrical credits include Pythonesque, Travels with My Aunt, ...