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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 ...

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 ...

Time of my Life By Louw Mulder The boyband Boyzone takes me back to the late 90’s. Those definitive varsity years, some would say the forming years of adulthood. This was the nostalgic sentiment that stood with me during the whole performance of once lead singer Ronan Keating’s concert at the Teatro in Montecasino this week. A solo artist in his own right, and a ...

An Evening with Steve Tyrell & special guest Diane Schuur Live in Johannesburg. Big Concerts is proud to announce that legendary Grammy award-winning jazz maestros, Steve Tyrell & Diane Schuur will be coming to South Africa in September 2016. Grammy Award-winning vocalist Steve Tyrell is truly a renaissance man. In over four decades in the music business, he has achieved great success as an artist, ...

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s classic to color-in Jozi Pieter Toerien presents Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s sparkling family musical, to be staged at the Pieter Toerien Theatre, Montecasino, from 29 April to 7 August 2016 Retelling the Biblical story of Joseph and his coat of many colours, this magical musical is packed full of unforgettable songs including ANY DREAM WILL DO and CLOSE EVERY DOOR TO ME. JOSEPH AND THE ...

Richard Zajdlic and Richard Crowe’s “knockout hit play” comes to Montecasino. A Cock & Bull Story is the localised reimagining of British playwrights Richard Zajdlic and Richard Crowe’s blockbuster play of the same name. At the hand of Quentin Krog, director of the film Ballade vir a Enkeling, and actor Geon Nel, the setting is transferred to contemporary suburban Cape Town. The production features Edwin van der Walt ...

Rocco de Villiers is back at Montecasino with Amazing Grace Inspired by the music of his latest best-selling album, BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL HYMNS, popular pianist Rocco de Villiers presents a brand new show where the piano and music takes center stage. During this productions, de Villiers will showcase his variations of Abide with me, The Holy City, Amazing Grace, Ave Maria, Glory Glory Hallelujah, How Great ...

Pieter Toerien presents The London Shakespeare Group in celebration of a life’s work and a 400-year legacy. “O sweet Mr Shakespeare” 400 years after his death, Shakespeare is performed more and more and is loved throughout the world. He is without doubt Britain’s greatest export. Sweet Mr Shakespeare examines the reactions to him over the centuries and enacts great passages from his comedies, tragedies and ...

He’s back! Alan Committie is Back in  Love Factually – More tales from a Caveman 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 ...

BANKSRUPT!! EXTENDED BY HUGE DEMAND TO 5 JUNE! Comics Choice Awards Lifetime Achiever Recipient MARK BANKS blazes back to the theatre stage in his hilarious up-to the minute critically acclaimed revue BANKSRUPT! Comedy that’s just common cents. BANKS’S unique eye on all that is happening in and around South Africa have always made him a firm favourite on the theatre and comedy circuits. BANKSRUPT! Takes a side-splitting ...

Robert Fridjhon in Bohemian Rhapsody: The Untold Story Studio Theatre, Montecasino  9  March – 17 April Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody remains one of the greatest selling hits of all time, and yet, Queen were famously secretive about the song’s obscure significance. Its enigmatic story and hidden meaning have remained shrouded in mystery for over 40 years … until now. Award-winning actor and writer, Robert Fridjhon, returns ...

By Louw Mulder   It is one of those theatre productions that makes you leave the Teatro with a smile, and the tune of an old classic stuck in your head. With all departments and components of Musical Theatre coming together perfectly, I can summarise Pieter Toerien’s production of Singin’ in the Rain, as a delightful, feel-good Musical, as showcased by the cream of South ...

Andre, the Hilarious Hypnotist returns to the Montecasino Theatre for more fun and Laughter Andre the Hilarious Hypnotist returns to the Montecasino Theatre stage to enthral local fans with his fast wit, dry humour and astounding ability to turn even the most innocent of us into anything from a washing machine to superman, providing the ideal way to chase away the New Year blues. His season at ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With over 150 million records sold, four Grammy nominations, a Golden Globe for “Entertainer of the Year” (1988), 63 gold and 24 platinum albums and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Engelbert Humperdinck is a musical legend, celebrating over forty years as a performing and recording artist. Now South African fans have an extra concert date to be swooned and crooned by this ...

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 ...

 By Louw Mulder   Whenever there is such a massive build up to an event, and by this I mean a period of anticipation to see Michael Flatley’s Lord of the Dance since I could remember, the expectations would set a benchmark that may sometimes be difficult to satisfy. This, however, was not the case with Lord of the Dance: Dangerous Games, which exceeded all ...

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 ...

COFFEE & CHOCOLATE EXPO 16 – 19 JULY 2015 Decadent indulgence is what is happening at Montecasino, Hotels & Entertainment when the Coffee and Chocolate Expo comes to Gauteng, 16 – 19 July 2015. After rave reviews last year in 2014 this “exquisite visual and sampling extravaganza” will be here to delight chocoholics and coffee connoisseurs alike. Enjoy learning more about coffee, its origins and ...

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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 ...

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 ...

The all-star local cast is headed by Alan Committie as Seymour, the would-be botanist....

Mamma Mia! is an original musical love story featuring 22 of ABBA’s greatest hits...

A celebration of the most beautiful melodies. Some sentimental, some nostalgic, some modern, some shockingly old... but always beautiful...