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Returning Cast for a third run of Award Winning Stage Production.

Joburg Theatre’s Hit Returns in the Same Year, with a new Shug Avery! Producers Joburg Theatre and Bernard Jay announced that The Color Purple would be extending its run on The Mandela Stage at Joburg Theatre for Women’s Month in August 2018. Popular actress and vocalist Lelo Ramasimong, who achieved a great personal success playing the role of Darlene in The Color Purple in February, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...