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Scene It: Fun 'Offbeat Broadway 5' a musical-mayhem treat
The cheeky Offbeat Broadway 5 cast —Paul du Toit, Lindy Abromowitz, and Anton Luitingh— may have changed a bit over the years, but much...


Scene It: Emotionally apocalyptic ‘The Goat’ shakes things up at The Baxter
Throughout his career, acclaimed playwright, Edward Albee, did not shy away from creating controversial work that people (both audiences...


#10TheatreFacts: Taryn Bennett on 'Silkworm'
Winner of a 2018 Standard Bank Ovation Award, Contagious Theatre’s newest production, Silkworm, looks at the ordinary aspects of life in...


Press: Bianca Del Rio for Cape Town & Joburg with 'It's Jester Joke'
Comedy queen and RuPaul’s Drag Race champion Bianca Del Rio is heading back to South Africa by popular demand. Following her sell-out...


Press: Six Young Stars Shine in SA Premiere of Hit Musical 'Kinky Boots'
Six young stars will have the chance to shine in the South African premiere of hit Tony Award-winning musical KINKY BOOTS. Presented by...


Scene It: The fabulous Trolley Dollies get raw, real, and ‘NON-Specific’
Drag is a very powerful form of expression and part of theatre since Ancient Greece. So, although some may find it a fairly new creative...


Scene It: Ruygrok and Hopkins captivates in mesmeric ‘Equus’
The current vividly-evocative staging of Peter Shaffer’s acclaimed play, Equus, sees Sven Ruygrok entrancing audiences at Theatre on the...


Press: Edward Albee’s acclaimed play, 'The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?', comes to the Baxter
Triple Pulitzer Prize winner, Edward Albee’s acclaimed and provocative play, The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?, comes to the Baxter Golden...


Spotlight: Imagination takes flight with 'The Snow Goose'
First published as a short story in The Saturday Evening Post in 1940, Paul Gallico’s The Snow Goose evolved into a novella in 1941, was...


Spotlight: Sven-Eric Müller makes The Trolley Dollies move
Sven-Eric Müller is the choreographer behind The Trolley Dollies’ fabulous moves, and you can see Brendan van Rhyn, Rudi Jansen, and...
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