In cooperation with the NYU Tisch Center for Art and Public Policy, NOW AFRICA - a group of New York based African writers, actors and community activists - will present its first annual playwrights festival, conceived to showcase and raise awareness of dramatic works by African writers....
Sherwin Banda is grateful that recent high-profile events have increased awareness about the importance of responsible, sustainable tourism in Africa....
Producer Eric Krebs asks, "What happens when 2 extraordinary singer/performers from Africa come together for an exploration of music and story telling?" Africa My Beautiful - an evening of story and song, with South African born Olivier and Obie Award-winnerThuli Dumakude, and Tanyaradzwa Ta...
Trevor Noah readies his seat at THE DAILY SHOW, where he takes over as host starting September 28 at 11/10c. Watch an all-new promo below!...
The highly acclaimed New York-based Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, one of the world's most popular global modern dance companies, returns to South Africa in September after 17 years with 13 performances in Johannesburg at the Teatro at Montecasino from Thursday, 3 September to Sunday, 13 Septe...
Following the release of her latest compilation 'House Of Cuppy II', Florence Ifeoluwa Otedola, aka DJ Cuppy, is set to kick off an eight-city continent wide tour across Africa. ...
Presented at Artscape by Eric Abraham and the Fugard Theatre, WEST SIDE STORY, the musical masterpiece by Leonard Bernstein, Arthur Laurents and Stephen Sondheim, based on an original conception of Jerome Robbins, opens at the Artscape Opera House on 23 July 2015....
Grammy Award winning R&B icon NE-YO, will be performing at the MTV Africa Music Awards KwaZulu-Natal 2015....
A staged reading of BLACK PROPHET DOWN, a new political text-in-development by Ian Tucker, will take place at the Alexander Bar and Cafe's Upstairs Theatre this Saturday afternoon. A fast thinking, fast talking political drama, this new South African play is inspired by Barack Obama's 2013 visit to ...
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It was announced today that Trevor Noah has been selected to become the next host of the Emmy® and Peabody® Award-winning 'The Daily Show,' on Comedy Central. Below, check out clips from Noah's stand up routines from around the world!...
Actors Co-op presents Athol Fugard's spellbinding MY CHILDREN! MY AFRICA!, produced by Catherine Gray and directed by Inger Tudor. MY CHILDREN! MY AFRICA! opened on March 20 and runs through May 3 at the Actors Co-op Crossley Theatre, 1760 N. Gower St. (on the campus of the First Presbyterian Church...
The Africa Centre is pleased to confirm the following 2014/2015 Artists in Residency (AIR) award laureates:...
Actors Co-op has announced its fourth show in its 2014-2015 season (and 23rd year of producing theatrical excellence in Los Angeles!) with Athol Fugard's spellbinding MY CHILDREN! MY AFRICA!, produced by Catherine Gray and directed by Inger Tudor. MY CHILDREN! MY AFRICA! will preview tonight, March...
The Rio Cinema in Dalston, east London, is delighted to host a special screening of Future Sound of Mzansi, the highly acclaimed musical documentary directed by Soweto-born performance artist and musician SPOEK MATHAMBO and filmmaker and cinematographer LEBOGANG RASETHABA....
Nat Geo WILD, in partnership with the Sun Valley Film Festival (SVFF) and the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF), announced the winner of the second annual WILD TO INSPIRE filmmaking competition....
The Rio Cinema in Dalston, east London, is delighted to host a special screening of Future Sound of Mzansi, the highly acclaimed musical documentary directed by Soweto-born performance artist and musician SPOEK MATHAMBO and filmmaker and cinematographer LEBOGANG RASETHABA....
After a sold out 'try out' season of David Kramer's ORPHEUS IN AFRICA that has played to capacity houses since opening earlier this month, the hit musical will return to the Fugard in September for the 2015 summer season....
Actors Co-op has announced its fourth show in its 2014-2015 season (and 23rd year of producing theatrical excellence in Los Angeles!) with Athol Fugard's spellbinding MY CHILDREN! MY AFRICA!, produced by Catherine Gray and directed by Inger Tudor. MY CHILDREN! MY AFRICA! will preview on Wednesday, ...
ORPHEUS IN AFRICA is all set to be a grand, old-fashioned classic musical in the Rodgers and Hammerstein tradition. Kramer has unearthed a fantastic historical footnote and found the reason that this story deserves to be raised into our consciousness more than a century after Orpheus McAdoo's death ...
Five years on from its official opening in February 2010, the Fugard Theatre announces its first out of house production. In July of this year, Eric Abraham and the Fugard Theatre will proudly present a grand-scale four week season of Leonard Bernstein, Arthur Laurents and Stephen Sondheim's musical...
The Chaeli Campaign presents a line up of great South African music and theatre at the Ability Festival from 4 to 7 March at the Masque Theatre in Muizenburg....
Today, on Thursday 12 February, to mark the occasion of the Fugard Theatre's fifth birthday since its official opening, the Fugard Theatre staff and the cast and crew of David Kramer's highly acclaimed musical ORPHEUS IN AFRICA, will light the candles on a birthday cake after the curtain call of the...
Milwaukee Chamber Theatre (MCT) continues its 40th Anniversary season, with the Midwest premiere of THE TRAIN DRIVER by Athol Fugard. MCT Producing Artistic Director C. Michael Wright, who has collaborated with Fugard in the past, directs this hard-hitting new drama. Performances are February 25 - M...
