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Rehearsals began this week for the 34-strong cast of a major tour UK tour of the National Theatre's internationally acclaimed production of War Horse, which begins performances on 15 September 2017 (with press night on 3 October) at the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury and continues on a 15 city tour until February 2019. Scroll down for photos of the cast at their first day of rehearsals!

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 to the main programme of the National Arts Festival in early July.

South African theatre legend Jennie Reznek returns to the stage 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 to the main programme of the National Arts Festival in early July.

The National Theatre's today (17 May 2017 ) announced the 34 strong cast for its acclaimed production of War Horse which begins a major tour of the UK on 15 September 2017.

One of South Africa's longest standing and most celebrated theatre companies, Magnet Theatre, presents two new works: 23 YEARS, A MONTH AND 7 DAYS by Nwabisa Plaatjie and KUDU by Lwanda Sindaphi. The productions are the culmination of Magnet's year-long theatre-making internship programme.

With the Muizenberg Festival having kicked off its week-long run yesterday, ASSITEJ SA is delighted to stage three dynamic performances this coming weekend: UNMUTE, PAIRED and PATCHWORK.

Piecing together a new mythology is an audacious undertaking, and yet it is an act that is at the very heart of theatre-making: the building of a new world, with its own origins and order, that only becomes fully realised when an audience believes in it. THE FIREBIRD attempts just that, telling a post-apartheid South African story against the backdrop of a created mythology.

An innovative new puppet and dance production of THE FIREBIRD, featuring Igor Stravinsky's original score, will head to the Artscape Opera House, the National Arts Festival and the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. 

Words are perhaps inadequate repositories to record the visceral emotional experience of watching I TURNED AWAY AND SHE WAS GONE. It has to be seen. You have to live through it. And when you have, you too will see how I TURNED AWAY AND SHE WAS GONE continues to live in you, just as it has in me.

On 25 February, Magnet Theatre hosts a special performance of II TURNED AWAY AND SHE WAS GONE. Audience members will have the unique opportunity to share the insights and experiences of a panel of respected authors, artists, writers and storytellers at a post-show discussion. The production starts at the slightly earlier time of 19:00 on that evening.

South African theatre legend Jennie Reznek returns to the stage by popular demand in I I TURNED AWAY AND SHE WAS GONE.

The Queen of Flanders, Madame Zingara's opulent new spiegelpaleis, will be at Montecasino in Johannesburg from next month, in time for the festive season! After a sell out three month season in Cape Town, the Queen bids a royal farewell to the Mother City and heads to the City of gold for two months from 4 November 2015 until January 2016.

Cape Town Opera and Magnet Theatre are proud to present a new musical adaptation of the Zakes Mda novel HEART OF REDNESS on stage at the Fugard Theatre from the 19th to the 22nd of August 2015 for four performances only.

"Welcome to the mystical world of Madame Zingara. A world where dreams become reality and everything is possible. A place where people are the magic, and flights of fantasy happen in real time... where memories created and friends found linger on like the stars light up in the nights sky."

In January 2015, Moog Music, the 60-year-old analogue synthesizer company, announced that for the first time in more than 30 years, it would once again build the large format modular synthesizers that were first introduced by its founder, Dr. Robert Moog in 1964. 2015 also marks the 10th anniversary of the passing of Dr. Robert 'Bob' Moog (1934-2005), inventor of the Moog synthesizer.

Magnet Theatre's I TURNED AWAY AND SHE WAS GONE, will be performed Wednesday to Saturdays from 18 February until 14 March 2015 at 20:00 at Magnet Theatre in Cape Town.

If you love Celtic sounds and feel like some good Scottish humour, then button up your fly, grip onto your belt and get down to the Rosebank Theatre to watch WHAR'S YER TROOSERS.

It is rare to find a piece as beautifully shaped for a specific age group as Magnet Theatre's enchanting TREE / BOOM / UMTHI. Created for 3 - 7 year olds, it engages its audiences with stories and images plucked from the world that surrounds them.

A first draft showing of Magnet Theatre's new work, I TURNED AWAY AND SHE WAS GONE will debut at the end of August. A one-woman show written and performed by Jennie Reznek, I TURNED AWAY AND SHE WAS GONE is a poetic reworking of the Persephone story.