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Ashley Dowds stars in stage adaptation of thrilling 1987 film Do you remember the thrilling 1987 box office hit film Fatal Attraction, starring Michael Douglas and Glenn Close? Now you have the chance to see it live on stage in the South African premiere produced by Pieter Toerien in arrangement with Robert Fox and Patrick Ryecart. This story of obsession and revenge explores how a ...

Puppet mayhem comes to Montecasino… Ventriloquist: A person, especially an entertainer, who can make their voice appear to come from somewhere else, typically a dummy of a person or animal. What would Conrad Koch and Chester Missing talk about if they didn’t constantly discuss politics and race? In his latest show offering, Puppet Guy, Conrad Koch – the man often mistakenly called ‘Chester’ – goes ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With Thanks to Alan Committie and Pieter Toerien Productions, we are giving away 10 sets of tickets for the Wednesday, 24 January Performance, at 20:00.  The performance will be staged at the Pieter Toerien’s Montecasino Theatre in Johannesburg. In this, his 20th one man comedy show, Committie presents a docu-comedy in the highest definition and promises everything we have come to love about his brand of ...

The World’s most loved musical returns to South Africa after World Tour. Pieter Toerien, David Ian and The Really Useful Group is presenting another theatrical masterpiece later this year, as Andrew Lloyd Webber’s production of The Sound of Music will hit stages in Johannesburg and Cape Town.  This musical which contains arguably the best-loved songs of all time, will be coming to Johannesburg from 31 ...

The All Going Wrong Play is Back by Popular Demand!  Even Pieter Toerien said that The Play That Goes Wrong, is the funniest play he has ever seen, and after the first run in Johannesburg, a lot of theatregoers will agree with the Theatre Tycoon. This South African production, directed by Alan Committie, took the box office by storm in March and April this year, ...

#Marc, #Lottering Marc Lottering returns to Pieter Toerien’s Montecasino Theatre with his hit-show Hashtag Lottering, which runs from 16 August to 17 September2017. Hashtag Lottering enjoyed a sell-out season around the country last year, and one of SA’s top comedians is sure to keep audiences in stitches once again. Lottering will share his hysterical views pertaining to social media, reality shows, well-groomed shop assistants, and ICU ...

by David Simmons Ian and Vivienne Von MemertyWhat do we know about Synergy? For starters, it’s the new song and dance celebration between husband and wife duo Ian and Vivienne Von Memerty. However....

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Annie promises Rich and Talented Stage Stars for Tomorrow by Louw Mulder Very seldom a theatre production of this scale makes you proud, and very positive about the future of SA Theatre. In this case, Annie doesn’t disappoint; it is a showcase of the young talent we can expect major success from in the future. There are many aspects of Annie to rave about, but ...

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 ...

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 ...

An illuminated, colorful reinvention of a well-known classic. by Louw Mulder Set to the music of Andrew Lloyd Webber and the lyrics by Tim Rice, Pieter Toerien Productions, through the direction of Paul Warwick Griffin, once again brought a stellar production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat to the stage. This time, this biblical story was a reinvented festival of colorful lights, song and dance, through the energy ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alan Committie is back with a brand new Experience of Unique, one-of-a-kind Comedy

The highlight of October, was surely War Horse. Our Editor, Louw Mulder, talks this month about the elements of this show that impressed him.

The Completely Sold Out Rocky Horror Show is returning to Joburg in November 2014!

Another first on our Website. An editorial blog from Louw Mulder, writing in his own unique way about his opinions and views of whatever he gets involved with, as well as his personal opinion about Stage and Screen events through-out the month. This blog, is the October version, celebrating his own 37th birthday...

The remarkable tale of courage and friendship in this ground-breaking puppetry work production...

Constellations promises to be the play of the year, with Ashley Dowds and Janna Ramos-Viollante in this outstanding duet...

This is all you need if you want to see 5 great stage actors in a Broadway Tony Award-winning Play....

Vettie Vettie is a play that pokes fun at women's eternal struggle to shake off those excess kilograms.