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Scene It: Evocative and Enchanting, West Side Story
Who owns the streets? This question echoes through the genre-redefining West Side Story. The musical was hailed as a postmodern...


Press: Fleur du Cap winning SCrIBE competition opens entries for 2018
Entries are open for the 2018 SCrIBE Scriptwriting Competition. Now in its seventh year, the competition, which is run by the Imbewu...


Scene It: Sex, Lies, and Fireworks in NT Live's 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'
It’s Big Daddy’s birthday, and the whole family’s descended on the ancestral Southern home to celebrate —and perhaps to sneak a peek at...


Woordfees: Fotostaatmasjien
An insecure poet (Bibi Slippers, appearing as herself) is defending her highly intertextual body of work in front of an unseen panel of...


Press: SA comedian Eureka Nkese to perform in CPT and JHB this March and April
Johannesburg-born, Cape Town-based stand-up comedian Eureka Nkese is bringing the funny to local audiences this year, with his brand new...


Press: Internationally acclaimed Tennessee Williams’ masterpiece comes to Artscape in a landmark pro
After a sensational, sold-out debut in the USA, local audiences now have an exclusive opportunity to see Abrahamse & Meyer’s...


Press: 8th Shakespeare Schools Festival April/May 2018 at Artscape / Baxter
The 8th Shakespeare Schools Festival South Africa (SSF SA) is taking place in Cape Town from 19 to 21 April at the Artscape Theatre and 7...


Press: NUNSENSE comes to the Milnerton Playhouse
Capetonians can look forward to enjoying that wacky and outrageous musical “Nunsense” when it shows at the Milnerton Playhouse from 6 to...


Press: 14th annual Baxter Dance Festival now calling for applications for 2018 festival
The annual Baxter Dance Festival will take place from 4 to 13 October 2018 and choreographers, independent dance-makers, dance studios,...


Press: 'Kinnes' at the Artscape Theatre this April
Kinnes, one of South Africa’s highly anticipated theatre productions is set to wow audiences at the Artscape Theatre in April 2018. It...
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