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Ideal family entertainment during the December holidays at Roodepoort Theatre For those staying in Joburg over the December holidays and looking for ideas of how to entertain the children – there is no better way than by taking them to see The Big Bad Musical, on stage at Roodepoort Theatre from for a short season from 15 – 23 December. The Big Bad Musical is a smart, wickedly funny and ...

The original Defending the Caveman will end the year at Monte Casino and The Victory Theatre. Considered one of South Africa’s best solo comedies, Defending the Caveman explores the complexities of romance and relationships with truthful hilarity. Through his Caveman, Plewman ensures his audience spend the show in stiches but walk away with something to think about. Plewman has an uncanny knack for capturing his audience, and whether ...

Award-winning musical for the whole family this December Beautiful Creatures in association with Blu Blood are excited to announce the return of the award-winning children’s stage production, Beautiful Creatures, at the Theatre of Marcellus, Emperors Palace from the 8th to the 18th December 2016. Following on the huge success of their shows in 2010 and 2011, this fun, educational and interactive 60-minute show is back by popular demand and features some ...

Indian Stand-up comedy up to LOL Sandton With a royal flush of South Africa’s best Indian comedy giants, Kings & Queens of Comedy And All’ is guaranteed to be a show of hysterical proportions, taking place at the Sandton Convention Centre on Saturday, 3d December 2016. Comedy lovers can look forward to a stellar, royal line-up with some of South Africa’s brightest and funniest stand-up Indian comedians as ...

Stars of Today and Budding Stars of Tomorrow Light Up the Lyric Theatre this Christmas. After the sell-out success of the inaugural concert in July last year which also made great waves in the entertainment industry, Born To Perform is back again to stage their annual Gala Concert in December with plans to be bigger than before! Born To Perform Gala Concert 2016 takes place at The Lyric Theatre at Gold ...

Hit Musical returns from 10 November, starring Nadine as the Narrator! Pieter Toerien & The Really Useful Group present this Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s sparkling family musical, which returns to Pieter Toerien’s Montecasino Theatre from 10 November 2016 to 29 January 2017, due to huge popular demand. Retelling the Biblical story of Joseph and his coat of many colours, this magical musical is packed ...

Emperor’s Palace in for a Tribute Treat One More Night is a brand new tribute show that will feature both the story, and the iconic music of legend Phil Collins. For the first time in South Africa, this superb production will showcase all of his greatest pop songs and ballads at Emperors Palace, including the chart-topping hits, Another Day in Paradise, Sussudio, Groovy Kind Of Love and You’ll Be In My Heart. ...

The Johannesburg Youth Ballet celebrates 40 Years (1976 – 2016) The Johannesburg Youth Ballet’s 40th Anniversary Gala season will be celebrated in style at The Mandela, Joburg Theatre from 14 October to 16 October with A Midsummer Night’s Dream & Other Ballets. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, choreographed by Mark Hawkins, is given expansive wings by his delightfully zany ’re-imagining’ of the Shakespearean comedy and his ...

A Brand New Pantomime Adventure from Janice Honeyman Riding through the royal forest of Sherwood on a glorious May morning, you don’t have a care in the world.  Then you hear a bird call, the faint rustling of trees, and suddenly a man armed with a longbow appears in your path.  He wears a feathered cap, or is that a hood?  You can’t see the man’s face clearly, ...

Silverstar Casino Proudly Presents Casper De Vries Alive It’s laugh BIG time at Silverstar Casino, the West Rand’s Number One Entertainment Destination on the 29th and 30th September 2016, as the much anticipated Casper De Vries Alive show takes place at the Silverstar Centre. This exclusive two-night show, his first after a three-year long break, is set to be bigger than ever before as de ...

THE WORLD’S FAVOURITE FAMILY MUSICAL Book by THOMAS MEEHAN, Music by CHARLES STROUSE, Lyrics by MARTIN CHARNIN ANNIE is based on Harold Gray’s popular comic strip Little Orphan Annie. The comic strip premiered in the 1920s in the New York Daily News, and became one of the most widely read strips in the 30s and 40s. Lyricist-director Martin Charnin bought a coffee table book called ...

Casting completed for the South Africa’s first original production of Saturday Night Fever Executive Producer Bernard Jay is proud to announce the completion of casting for South Africa’s first ‘non-replica’, professional production of the legendary disco musical, Saturday Night Fever. “We have an absolutely fabulous, world class company of all South African artists,” says Jay. “The crème-de-la-crème of the amazing pool of musical theatre talent ...

Twee bekroonde akteurs op een verhoog, André Odendaal en Wilhelm van der Walt, in ‘n komediedrama kragtoer. Frank Venter is die man op straat. Een van duisende daarbuite wat min mense ooit sal ken en wat nog minder sal onthou. Soos elke mens het Frank ‘n storie. Niemand luister na sy storie nie. Dit is dan tog nie so indrukwekkend nie, of is dit? Frank ...

Joburg Ballet’s Sumptuous Cinderella Returns – Four Ballerinas Share Title Role Four ballerinas will share the title role when Joburg Ballet’s sumptuous production of Cinderella returns to Joburg Theatre for ten performances only, from Friday 30 September to Sunday 9 October. Heading the line-up of stars is Joburg Ballet’s prima ballerina Burnise Silvius, who will dance the lead role on opening night, partnered by Jonathan Rodrigues as her handsome ...

Ian Von Memerty is Back with Keyboard Killers Take SA’s ‘king of the keyboard’, Ian von Memerty, and put him together with eight of the greatest songwriting piano stars and you have the recipe for a ‘smash’; ‘a hit’; a ‘killer show’! Why, of the millions of people who play the piano, are there those rare individuals whose music and lyrics inspire for decades? Ian ...

Hard Hitting, Thought-Provoking Play hits The Fringe Acceptance, Jerry Mofokeng, is Directed by Rhodes University graduate Simona Mazza, written by Eva Mazza and was debuted at Drostdy Teater in Stellenbosch in November 2015. Acceptance is based on the events around the highly publicised multiple filicides (the deliberate act of a parent killing his/her own child) by a South African-born mother of her three disabled children in England in April ...

Unprecedented demand brings Cirque Éloize iD back to SA  “iD makes its Cape Town debut then returns to the Teatro for the Festive Holidays”   When Cirque Éloize iD made its South African debut at Montecasino’s Teatro in 2014, audiences were literally blown away by this bewildering high-energy production that blends breathtaking acrobatics and street dance.  Word spread quickly and “iD” became the hottest ticket ...

Dance & Opera: A Perfect Marriage for South African State Theatre In association with the South African State Theatre, multi-award winning theatre company, Underground Dance Theatre (UDT), presents In Opstanding. After winning the ‘Blou Stoel’ award at the Kyknet Fiestas for most groundbreaking work for their cabaret Askoop, UDT is back with an innovative new production, In Opstanding. This production will delight lovers of classical ...

Much-loved funny man TOBIE CRONJE on stage in Johannesburg and Cape Town later this year. Charles Laurence’s (1931-2013) London and Broadway hit comedy My Fat Friend is the story of an overly large Vicky (Michelle Botha) who owns a successful bookshop in London’s Hampstead. She guzzles comfort food and chocolate to make up for her somewhat boring existence. She good-humouredly suffers the slings and arrows of her friend and ...

Sandra Prinsloo is terug met ‘n verhoog Meesterstuk “Elke nou en dan, min of meer een maal per jaar, gebeur ‘n teaterstuk wat ‘n mens nie durf misloop nie. Die soort teaterbelewenis wat by jou steelkant verbyglip en jou totaal ontredder. Wat nie talm of trane trek nie. Wat jou vinnig twee keer laat kyk, vinnig oor jou skouer laat kyk. Wat jou oorrompel met ...

Natniël’s latest creation heads to Emperor’s Palace in August and September Multitalented stalwart of the South African entertainment industry for over two decades, Nataniël is more than just a producer, director, designer, playwright, public speaker and performer – he is a true icon of stage and screen. Nataniël will return to the Theatre of Marcellus stage at Emperors Palace with a new stage production, MANNEQUIN, from 18 August to 25 September 2016. ...

Celebrating Fabulous Women of Song August is the month to celebrate and highlight dynamic women and this will be done in spectacular fashion on The Mandela stage at Joburg Theatre with Supreme Divas.  The show will run from Thursday 11 August to Sunday 14 August for four performances only. Supreme Divas will delight audiences old and young as they celebrate the powerhouse female singers that have become legends through their music over the past few ...

Elke mens wil elke dag hê dat sy lewe lekker moet wees, maar as ons moet wag vir ‘n maer lyf, baie geld en eerlike politici om ons Kaap weer Hollands te maak, dan gaan ons lank wag. Marion Holm se voorstel is om vir niks te wag nie, maar self jou eie lewe gelukkig te maak:  maak jou Kaap weer Holms.  Chris Vorster is ...

Off-Broadway’s Second Longest Running Musical Comedy, is coming to Joburg and Cape Town   VRG Theatrical is proud to announce that a new, upscale production of I Love you, You’re Perfect, Now Change will be presented in Cape Town and Johannesburg from July to September 2016. Written by Tony® Award winner Joe DiPietro with music by Jimmy Roberts, I Love you, You’re Perfect, Now Change is Off-Broadway’s love letter ...

Tshwane Dance Theatre Presents this collaboration with the Cape Dance Company For the first time ever, the Joburg Theatre’s Mandela stage will showcase a collaboration between two dance companies from opposite corners of the country – the Cape Dance Company (CDC) and Tshwane Dance Theatre (TDT). This event is part of a project made possible by a grant of R420 000 from the National Lotteries ...

The World’s most illustrious clown to visit South Africa for the first time Immerse yourself in a magical world of dreams and imagination, interactively reviving your childhood ankle-deep in snow!   When the critically acclaimed international stage sensation, Slava’s Snowshow opens in South Africa for the first time, at Montecasino’s Teatro on Tuesday 26 July, a very special guest is expected to be in the audience. That ...

’n Opwindende nuwe Afrikaanse musiekblyspel kom in 2016 na Pieter Toerien se Montecasino Studio Teater, gegrond op die 1952 film van Pierre de Wet Altyd in my Drome.  Met Willem Botha, Grant Towers, Michelle Botha, Tessa Denton, Sanli Jooste en Darius Engelbrecht. Die vervaardigers wat die trefferkomedies Vettie Vettie, Twee vir die Prys van Een en Marion Holm vir Beginners in 2014 en 2015 die ...

Guest Artist, Casting and Vuyani Dance Theatre Collaboration for Romeo and Juliet Joburg Ballet artistic director Iain MacDonald has announced that Australian-born international guest artist Aaron Smyth will visit South Africa in July to dance Romeo for the first time in Joburg Ballet’s production of Romeo and Juliet. Sharing the role of Romeo with Smyth during the 10-performance season at the Joburg Theatre from 15 to ...

Brilliantly Broadway – A Fabulous Broadway Affair.  New Year’s in July is a special once-off performance based on the concept of Clint Lesch’s own production Brilliant Broadway. This celebration is a musical programme comprising of masterpieces from some of the worlds most loved musicals. Created by Lesch himself, with contractual assistance by Greg Homann, and created by Lesch himself, this one-man show, containing a carefully selected ...

The Legendary Shaolin Monks return to South Africa with a Brand New Show For the first time in six years, following their globally acclaimed ‘Wheel of Life’ and ‘Kung Fu Masters’ tours, the phenomenal Shaolin Monks return to Johannesburg with an outstanding new show simply titled SHAOLIN. Twenty Shaolin monks will take to the stage to demonstrate their martial arts expertise in an awe-inspiring performance. ...