ALEXANDER BAR, CAFÉ AND THEATRE

COHEN - A TRIBUTE is an exploration of the life and works of the late Leonard Cohen. The show features Cohen's music and poetry, interspersed ...

Greg Gelb is back with a new show entitled REFOCUSED, which is full of top-quality magic and the Gelb humour that audiences have come to ...

Country folk act The Oh So Serious, featuring Thinus Scheepers on brushes, Franco Jamneck on bass and Vana Smollensky on guitar, will present a 40-minute ...

BLACK, Penelope Youngleson's adaptation of the acclaimed CA Davids novel, THE BLACKS OF CAPE TOWN, will run at the Alexander Bar, Café and Theatre as ...

THE COMMUNION WITH SOUNDS & WORDS brings together spoken word poetry and music inspired by afrobeat, highlife, jazz, reggae and soul-funk. A live band will ...

Robaby Productions, the award-winning theatre company that created the cult hit FATHER, FATHER, FATHER!, proudly presents KIDCASINO! This dark comedy promises to entertain, entice and unnerve ...

Mischa Ruby will present HOPE LIKE HONEY, a programme of thoughtful songs woven together with a golden thread of hope. The show consists of original ...

GODFREY JOHNSON IN CABARET is the perfect end of year show. Starring Godfrey Johnson and Nicholas "Magic Fingers" McDiarmid, the show features the songs of ...

Where does Johnny Boskak fit in the new South Africa'? Is he a white trash dinosaur? Or is he the last cowboy hero in boots ...

NASTY WOMXN, the latest work by The Furies, a collective whose focus is creating space and increasing opportunities for marginalised womxn, plays with Greek mythology's ...

DIRGE is an hour-long improvised, instrumental art rock soundscaping performance, with Helo Samo on guitar and pedals, radio, samples, accordion, percussion and drums, Frank Lunar ...

RENAISSANCE, written and directed by Wessel Pretorius, is about a South African expat who obtains a working visa and becomes a night watchman in the ...

The Alexander Bar, Café and Theatre will host BLARE, a solo dancing poem devised and performed by playwright, director, actor and choreographer Mpapa Simo Majola. ...

HEDY! THE LIFE & INVENTIONS OF HEDY LAMARR, an award-winning and critically-acclaimed solo show from New York, will make its South African debut at the ...

Flying Bantu Band is an Afro-Fusion act right from underneath the magical spray of the mighty Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe. Comprising vocalist and songwriter Tinashe ...

AT THE EDGE OF THE LIGHT, written and directed by Wynne Bredenkamp, is coming to Alexander Upstairs Theatre this autumn as a part of the ...

The Sugar-daddy Theatre Company will present Eugene O'Neill's THIRST at the Alexander Upstairs Theatre as a part of the Cape Town Fringe this year. Directed ...

IN WHOREFISH BLOOMERS: THE WAITRESSES' LAMENT returns to the Alexander Upstairs Theatre as a part of the Cape Town Fringe this September. Presented by Avant-Guava ...

Performance Art sensation Naked Girls Reading will present QUEERLY BELOVED at the Alexander Upstairs Theatre as a part of the Cape Town Fringe. Directed by ...

STEKE, presented by PACOFS, will run at the Alexander Upstairs Theatre as a part of the Cape Town Fringe this September. Directed by Willem Esterhuyse, ...

Brendon Peel will bring magic and illusion to the Alexander Upstairs Theatre and in HOCUS POCUS as part of the Cape Town Fringe this year. ...

THE FUNERAL, written and performed by Mpapa Simo Majolaat, choreographed by Billy Langa and directed by Phala O. Phala will play the Alexander Upstairs Theatre ...

The JOBURG MEETS CAPE TOWN POETRY SHOWCASE is an events programme founded by Luxolo Ngqunge, aka Last Poet, continuing the art revolution of the 1960s, ...

Bryan Miles is a master of the wicked manipulation of the mind and a performer who is trained in the art of thought deception. Miles ...

Ahead of the main shnit Worldwide Shortfilmfestival in October, shnit Cape Town has teamed up with The Alexander Bar once again to bring A TASTE ...

The magicians' secret world exists behind locked doors, Stuart Lightbody offers you a key. Spend an evening inside his mind, a place full of fading ...

IN BOCCA AL LUPO is a graphic, candid and whimsical journey across three continents, using four story boxes, one giant cicada, a naked Catholic or ...

In KLARA MAAS SE HART IS GEBREEK, ENSOMEER: DIE VLOEISTOF TRILOGIE, two commedia dell'arte-styled travelling players (Wessel Pretorius and David Viviers) sketch out three stories: ...

A night of foot tapping country, bluegrass and folk music will entertain audiences at the Alexander Upstairs this July. The exciting new Old Town Band ...

Kei-Ella Loewe's new adaptation of Sue Pam-Grant and Sheena Stannard's 1980s underground cabaret, IN WHOREFISH BLOOMERS: THE WAITRESSES' LAMENT, will play the Alexander Upstairs this ...

IN BOCCA AL LUPO is Jemma Kahn's third kamishibai show, a graphic and candid and whimsical journey across three continents, using four story boxes, one ...

Julia (Robin Botha) and Carl (David Fick) and two Julie and Carol superfans, and they are hitting the road with their long-suffering pianist (David Lubbe) ...

In THE PLOTHOLE, Stuart Cairns and Westley Cockrell, two renowned Capetonian comedians, offer a new twist on comedy, where two whimsical characters take audiences on ...

Mthwakazi and Luyolo Lenga will perform an hour-long programme of Xhopera, Xhosa funk, indigenous bow music at the Alexander Bar, Café and Theatre this February. ...

Set in a "Love Recovery" workshop, MATE introduces three women experiencing the raw and painfully humorous realities of single life. MATE walks through the cesspit ...

Deception artist Greg Gelb is an experienced magician and sleight-of-hand artist. His new show, BLURRED LINES, takes the audience on a magical and mysterious experience ...

OH BABY, I'M A WILD ONE is a new character study by multiple award-winning playwright Louis Viljoen, starring Emma Kotze. A young teacher arrives home ...

Through storytelling and song, PICTURE INCOMPLETE sketches out the portrait of a man's life as he celebrates a rather unusual birthday on which an eviction ...

Improv makes its way back to the Alexander Bar, Theatre and Café with Megan Furniss and company in the hour-long TWO PARROTS AND A SANDCASTLE. ...