BWW Review: QUEENS GIRL IN AFRICA at Mosaic Theater Company
The second annual Women's Voices Theater Festival's first entry is the follow up to the hit play Queens Girl in the World, an entry in the first festival in 2015....
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Review Roundup: QUEENS GIRL IN AFRICA at Mosaic Theater
Mosaic Theater presents Caleen Sinnette Jennings' QUEENS GIRL IN AFRICA, the sequel to her 2015 QUEENS GIRL IN THE WORLD. Set in the 1960s, this one-woman show tells the story of a young Jacqueline Marie Butler, who travels to Nigeria after Malcom X is assassinated. QUEENS GIRL IN AFRICA opened Janu...
Comic Loyiso Madinga to Helm DAILY SHOW Segments for African Broadcast
Comedy Central, the largest global comedy brand and part of Viacom, Inc (NASDAQ: VIAB, VIA), today announced that Trevor Noah, Executive Producer, Writer and Host, has selected Loyiso Madinga to helm topical segments for the African broadcast of THE DAILY SHOW WITH TREVOR NOAH....
Cast Announced For Historic Production Of THE TAMING OF THE SHREW For Maynardville 2018
A historic production of Shakespeare's popular comedy, THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, will be presented at the Maynardville Open-Air Theatre next year, directed by Tara Notcutt and featuring an all-female cast and creative team....
Art Africa Miami Arts Fair to Return with 'BACK TO BLACK: NO ON/OFF RAMPS'
Art Africa Miami Arts Fair explores how Black Arts respond to the assaults that currently beset the global African Diaspora and the world at large and how artists of African descent and the global south create modes of intervention of radical autonomy....
Brittanie Richardson Subject of New Episode of Amazon Series OUTrageous
Episode three of season two of the hit Amazon docu-series OUTrageous premiered this week with the focus of theater arts as therapy in Africa....
Art Africa Miami Arts Fair to Return with 'BACK TO BLACK: NO ON/OFF RAMPS'
Art Africa Miami Arts Fair explores how Black Arts respond to the assaults that currently beset the global African Diaspora and the world at large and how artists of African descent and the global south create modes of intervention of radical autonomy....
VIDEO: Sneak Peek - Nat Geo WILD's SAVAGE KINGDOM: UPRISING Returns Today
Nat Geo WILD's Savage Kingdom returns with SAVAGE KINGDOM: UPRISING, a four-part global miniseries series event that tells an unvarnished tale of survival on the African plains....
Minnesota Little Free Library Delivered to Historic Alexandria Library in Egypt
A piece of Midwestern literary culture now resides in one of the world's oldest libraries in Alexandria, Egypt, thanks to a joint effort by nonprofits Books For Africa, Little Free Library, Minnesota Friends of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina and the Minnesota Book Awards program....
Playwrights Guild of Canada's CASA Award Honors Three Women Playwrights in South Africa
The CASA Award, a new playwriting award for women in South Africa, was announced at Playwrights Guild of Canada's Tom Hendry Awards this past Sunday at the Arts and Letters Club of Toronto....
Africa Centre Opens Applications for Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center and Other Worldwide Residencies
The Africa Centre is currently accepting applications for its 2017 Artist In Residency Programmes. The centre is offering residencies in Australia, Brazil, Spain, Italy and the United States of America....
Mamela Nyamza Returns to the Baxter Theatre With DE-APART-HATE
Following the short season of her latest work ROCK TO THE CORE, choreographer, performance artist and activist Mamela Nyamza brings her equally controversial and provocative DE-APART-HATE, to the Baxter Golden Arrow Studio this October....
BWW Interview: Five on Friday with Gideon Lombard of DIE REUK VAN APPELS at The Fugard Theatre
This week's Five on Friday focuses on Gideon Lombard, who performs in DIE REUK VAN APPELS at The Fugard Theatre from next week. Based Mark Behr's 1993 novel, the solo play tells the coming-of-age story of Marnus Erasmus, the eleven-year-old son of a South African Defence Force general during the apa...
Mamela Nyamza Double Bill Comes to the Baxter Theatre This October
Choreographer, dance artist and activist, Mamela Nyamza, brings two of her acclaimed and confrontational works, ROCK TO THE CORE and DE-APART-HATE, to the Baxter Golden Arrow Studio for a short season this October....
Nominations Now Open for the 2017 BroadwayWorld South Africa Awards!
Nominations are NOW OPEN for the 2017 BroadwayWorld Regional Awards! Regional productions, touring shows, community theatre and more are all included, honoring productions which opened between October 1, 2016 through September 30, 2017. Our local editors have set the categories and now YOU get to no...
Filming Underway for Second Season of Sundance TV's Spy Thriller DEUTSCHLAND86
SundanceTV, UFA Fiction and FremantleMedia International have begun production of the much-awaited spy thriller drama DEUTSCHLAND86. The second season of the critically acclaimed and award-winning series will film across South Africa and Berlin....
Stuart Lightbody's Breathtaking New Show UNIQUE WONDERS Closes at Alexander Upstairs Theatre
Following a global magical tour, award-winning sleight-of-hand artist Stuart Lightbody completes the debut Cape Town run of his breathtaking new show, UNIQUE WONDERS, at the Alexander Upstairs Theatre tonight....
ESPN2 to Televise NBA Africa Game 2017
ESPN2 will televise NBA Africa Game 2017 live on Saturday, Aug. 5, at 11 a.m. ET. The game will emanate from the Ticketpro Dome in Johannesburg, South Africa, and will air exclusively on ESPN2 in the U.S....
South Africa's Best Comedians Headline CLOWNS WITHOUT BORDERS Comedy Benefit Showcase at The Fugard Theatre
Clowns Without Borders South Africa is celebrating their 10th anniversary with a once-off Comedy Benefit Showcase at the iconic Fugard Studio Theatre this August. Featuring the comic talents of Rob van Vuuren, Nik Rabinowitz, Sne Dladla, Shimmy Isaacs, Daniel Mpilo Richards, Yaaseen Barnes and CJ Be...
Dr. Sylvanus Ayeni Releases News Book 'Rescue Thyself'
Why has foreign aid failed to alleviate poverty and promote development and economic growth in Africa?...
Jennie Reznek to Return to the Stage with I TURNED AWAY AND SHE WAS GONE in Cape Town and at the National Arts Festival
South African theatre legend Jennie Reznek returns to the stage tonight in her hugely popular production, I TURNED AWAY AND SHE WAS GONE. There will be four special performances of this acclaimed one-woman show at the Magnet Theatre in Observatory, Cape Town, after which the production will transfer...
Wines of South Africa (WOSA) Named International Partner at 3rd Annual Oakland Wine Festival
Wines of South Africa (WOSA) USA (http://www.wosa.us/), the industry association which promotes the exports of South African wine, is excited to announce participation in the 3rd annual Oakland Wine Festival (http://www.oaklandwinefestival.com) on Saturday July 15th, 2017. Following a successful Kic...
Photo Flash: First Look at Conservation Theater's FRESH FROM AFRICA at Planet Connections
Conservation Theater: Fresh from Africa, presented by Conservation Theater, written and performed by by Bricken Sparacino, benefits the Wildlife Conservation Society in its run at Planet Connections Theatre Festivity. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the show below!...
WNBA Star Chiney Ogwumike Joins ESPN to Co-Host SportsCenter Across Africa
Chiney Ogwumike, the 2014 WNBA Rookie of the Year, All-Star and former first overall pick in the WNBA draft, has joined ESPN as the co-host of SportsCenter across sub-Saharan Africa. Ogwumike, who earlier this year signed a multi-year extension with the WNBA's Connecticut Sun, will co-host the Afri...
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