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Exclusive Gala For Ballet Fans at Montecasino – For One Show Only! Fresh from a spectacular season of Carmen – The Ballet at Joburg Theatre last month, Joburg Ballet makes its debut at The Teatro at Montecasino with an unmissable gala on Saturday 19 May at 3pm. Brimming with world-class entertainment, the company partners with some of SA’s top singers to bring audiences Joburg Ballet ...

Weyers Prinsloo Colab hits Cape Town Stage. The Fugard Theatre’s star-studded production of Athol Fugard’s The Road to Mecca has been extended due to an overwhelming response and universal critical acclaim. The play will be presented at the Fugard Theatre until 12 May and bookings can be made at Computicket. Eric Abraham presents this Fugard Theatre production in honour of this iconic playwright’s 85th year, who marked this ...

Comedy-Horror for Cape Town. Nominated for three WoordTROfees awards at this year’s University of Stellenbosch Woordfees, The Demon Bride will be unleashed on the Fugard Studio Theatre from 8 May. Eric Abraham presents this production in association with US Woordfees. The Demon Bride is the latest play from multiple award-winning playwright and director Louis Viljoen, who is also the Fugard Theatre’s Writer in Residence. The play was nominated for the WoordTROfees ...

The South African premiere of Joshua Harmon’s Broadway hit! From the writer of the West End smash hit comedy Bad Jews, which enjoyed sold out runs in Johannesburg and Cape Town, comes a Fugard Theatre production of Joshua Harmon’s Broadway success Significant Other. Eric Abraham presents a Fugard Theatre production and South African premiere of Significant Other. The play opens on 30 May in the Fugard Theatre and is directed ...

A Nostalgic, Delightful Presentation for Total Enjoyment By Louw Mulder The Teatro came alive, with the Sound of Music, when this musical opened at Montecasino last week. This run comes after what is believed to have been a hugely successful World Tour, forcing audiences onto their feet in Manila, Singapore, Macau and Colombo. Now, in Johannesburg, the stage production of the World’s most loved musical, ...

A seductive and theatrical feast for the eyes. By David Simmons Celebrating art in South Africa is probably one of the most rewarding pastimes a person can participate in. We not only pay homage to art in its theatrical form, but applaud and honour the bursting and at times overlooked talent our country has to offer. The latest, sumptuous offering from Joburg Ballet brings us ...

Avenue Q to Pull the Puppets off their strings. In 2004, on Broadway, against all the odds, a little show called Avenue Q snatched 3 Tony Awards for Best Book, Best Score and Best Musical from a monster hit, Wicket. This year, VR Theatrical and Kosie Smit are proud to present that triple Tony Winner to Johannesburg Audiences. The Broadway production was described as ‘equal ...

Queen of the Kitchen, Now on Stage! Where do you go when you’re trying to get away from your monster mother-in-law?  If you’re Annalakshmi, then it’s a different country and a different continent altogether! Annalakshmi’s African Adventure is a hilarious musical comedy about being an Indian National taking refuge in South Africa.  This one-woman-show will take place for the first time on a Joburg stage on ...

Wonderful Wizzard of Musicals, Set to Dazzle at NSA’s Festival of the Arts. The National School of the Arts is proud to showcase their bright young talented performers during their annual NSA Festival of the Arts, running from Tuesday, 6 March, to Sunday, 11 March 2018 on the various NSA and Joburg Theatre stages. Featuring a diverse program of youth focused productions, the NSA Festival of the Arts, formerly known as Festival of Fame, is set ...

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 ...

With compliments of Joburg Ballet, we are giving away a double set of tickets to their season of Carmen. Joburg Ballet opens a bumper 2018 year in sizzling style when the company brings South African choreographer Veronica Paeper’s production of Carmen to Joburg Theatre for ten performances from 6 to 15 April. The tickets up for grabs are for the Saturday night performance at 7.30pm on 7th April ...

A new show about forgetting, forgiving, remembering, faking, making-up and doing. Here we have a fun-filled entertainment show with Pieter-Dirk Uys and other darlings. Sometimes politics repeats itself, not only taking history and turning it into farce, but taking farce and turning into the fake news which is now called entertainment. Pieter-Dirk Uys is sorting out 40 years of distress, disguise and disgust: from apartheid ...

The Fugard Theatre and The Royal Shakespeare Company Present Kunene and the King Eric Abraham presents a Fugard Theatre and Royal Shakespeare Company co-production of Kunene and the King, the new play by John Kani. Kunene and the King, comes to The Fugard Theatre in April 2019, hot off its world premiere at The Royal Shakespeare Company’s Swan Theatre, in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. This moving and funny two-hander ...

A richly woven story of love, friendship and the strong bond of Womanhood. By David Simmons If there was ever a greater time for women to feel empowered in the world and most importantly in South Africa, that time is now! The Color Purple, currently showing at the Joburg Theatre, couldn’t have come at a more auspicious time. Women all over the world, empowered by ...

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 ...

With compliments of Joburg Theatre, we are giving away a Double Ticket to The Color Purple, soon to be staged on the Mandela Stage at the Joburg Theatre Complex.  The lucky winner stand a chance to attend the performance on Tuesday, 6 February, at 20:00. The Color Purple, as a musical, was originally produced on Broadway in 2005, by a team of producers, including Oprah Winfrey and received eleven Tony nominations.  Now, this ...

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 ...

Introducing the Color Purple’s Celie and Shug Avery In August 2016, director Janice Honeyman, executive producer Bernard Jay and musical director Rowan Bakker embarked on a search for the two women who would be chosen to play the lead roles of Celie and Shug Avery in the Tony Award winning musical The Color Purple, to be staged for the first time in South Africa in 2018 ...

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 ...

Cape Town City Ballet’s adaptation comes to Artscape in February. Marc Goldberg , The acclaimed choreographer of The Vortex has combined a classical story with a 21st century design to bring a cinematic experience to modern ballet as it’s never been seen before. Digitalizing his sets yet retaining the silhouettes of the 17th century, this world premier promises to be a lot more than just ...

The Fugard Theatre’s ‘memorable masterpiece’ returns to Cape Town in March 2018 The Fugard Theatre has announced the full cast for the final return South African season of the critically acclaimed West Side Story that opens at the Artscape Opera House in Cape Town on 7 March 2018. The exceptional Lynelle Kenned (Orpheus in Africa, Blood Brothers, Showboat) will reprise the role of Maria for which she won the Fleur du Cap for Best Actress in a Musical in 2016.  Tony, the leader ...

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 ...

Dream BIG as Disney on Ice sprinkles pixie dust in SA! Disney on Ice is back next year as Tinker Bell takes audiences on an enchanting pixie-dust filled journey of beloved Disney tales in a new show entitled Disney on Ice presents Dream Big. Believing is just the beginning when the empowering tales of eight Disney Princesses – Ariel, Belle, Cinderella, Rapunzel, Tiana, Jasmine, Aurora ...

South Africans shines in International Cast of The Lion King! Michael Cassel Group in association with Disney Theatrical Productions are thrilled to reveal the full company of the international tour of the world’s #1 musical, Disney’s The Lion King. A talented cast of impressive and diverse international performers will star in the landmark musical event which begins performances in Manila at The Theatre at Solaire ...

Scrooge comes Alive on Stage this Christmas by Louw Mulder The age old tale of the miserable Scrooge in Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol, is evergreen and familiar to theatre goers worldwide especially with the silly season in full swing! For the first time ever, the tale of goodwill and cheer, has been adapted for the stage by Elizma Badenhorst, with the aim to entertain ...

The most successful revue in the history of SA returns for the Festive Season! Thanks to countless requests from audience members, South Africa`s most successful musical revue ever returns! Launched in 1994 as a co-creation between Ian von Memerty and Bryan Schimmel, A Handful of Keys has played to more the 420 000 people in over 1450 performances over the last 23 years! Multiple awards, ...

Age Old Classic coming to Johannesburg VR Theatrical expands to collaborate with various artists under the banner Crewworks, to bring to the stage Charles Dickens’ Evergreen tale of redemption, A Christmas Carol, with Jason K. Ralph as Scrooge, and Naret Loots as Everyone-one-Else, in this 2-hander adaptation by Elizma Badenhorst. Bah, Haumbug! The famous exclamation of Ebenezer Scrooge will be heard this Christmas season at ...

Very Funny, Somewhat Dirty, but Let’s Rock! by Louw Mulder There are only a few things better in life than to leave a theatre production where you have hit the epiphany of sheer entertainment. Taking nothing away from all the other brilliant theatre productions that stunned audiences this year, but with reference to Rock of Ages, now showing at the Lyric theatre in Gold Reef ...

Sandra Prinsloo stars in one-woman play at The Fugard Moedertaal, starring Sandra Prinsloo, will be presented by Naskrif Produksies at the Fugard Studio Theatre for a limited season from 14 November to 2 December 2017. The production comes to the Fugard Theatre off the theatre festival circuit where it played to full houses and standing ovations. Written and directed by Nico Scheepers, Moedertaal is the next instalment in Sandra Prinsloo’s trifecta of one-woman plays ...