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Press: Powerful Marat/Sade comes to the Baxter
The acclaimed, multi-award-winning designer and director Jaco Bouwer tackles one of the Baxter Theatre Centre’s flagship productions for...


Spotlight: Young directors bring the Fiësta flair!
Since 2011, the Fiësta Awards have honoured creatives and role-players that bring theatre to life at the biggest arts festivals in the...


Scene It: RENT at the Artscape
When it comes to musicals the calibre of RENT, the allowed margin of error is miniscule, especially in a year celebrating the 20th...


Scene It: Songs of Hope & Despair, a cantata magnificently magnified
A narrative is a powerful device to trigger emotions when it has a real, human story to tell, but when you put music to it, it gains a...


Press: Nominees for the 52nd annual Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards announced
The 52nd annual Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards today announced its nominees. These annual awards are amongst the most coveted in the South...


Scene It: The Mother, a powerful reflection of a 'lost' person
The Mother, Florian Zeller’s companion piece to The Father, is currently onstage at the Fugard Theatre, starring the phenomenal Anna-Mart...


Scene It: Witty Banksrupt at Theatre on the Bay
One does not simply get bestowed the honour of being a Comic’s Choice Award Lifetime Achievement recipient without being a darn fine...


Spotlight: Do you have your Woordfees tickets yet?
The theme for this year’s 18th Woordfees is “Wys!” which when translated from Afrikaans can mean anything from ‘wisdom’ to ‘showing’...


Spotlight: Things are getting cinematically theatrical at the Fugard
For the last five years the Fugard Theatre Bioscope season has brought audiences only the best in live recorded screenings of everything...


Press: Riaad Moosa in Life Begins
They say “life begins at 40”… Riaad Moosa invites the audience along to his brand new one-man show, Life Begins, to join in figuring out...
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