David Fick News

Virtuoso guitarist, producer and director Jonathan Rubain is back for the third time with his sold-out hit show, I'M IN LOVE WITH A GUITARIST, at the Baxter Concert Hall for three performances only.

Lefra's farces are an annual institution in South Africa, and in 2017, fans can look forward to MY MAN SE SKELMPIE SE SKELMPIE SE VROU. The loud-out-loud production, under the direction of Frans Swart, South Africa's king of farce, will run for three performances at the Sand du Plessis Theatre as a part of the Vrystaat Arts Festival.

Imagine a late-night German television programme like MANN, SIEBER! filtered through the pop culture aesthetic of an American variety show like SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, and you might know what to expect from IN WHOREFISH BLOOMERS: THE WAITRESSES' LAMENT, which is more a 'kabarett' than what South African audiences have come to call cabaret.

Cape Town Opera is excited to announce the staging of its first Wagner opera in seventeen years since TANNHÄUSER in 2000. Director Matthew Wild's new production of DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER will unleash the ghosts of Dutch colonialism in the Mother City to thrilling effect.

Tom Stoppard breakout play, ROSENKRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD, will play a season at the Masque Theatre this July. This existential masterpiece brims with wit and this new production promises to be an unforgettable theatrical experience.

The Masque Theatre is proud to announce that the BUNNY AND THE MAGIC HAT is set to delight family audiences this winter holiday. This magnificent family puppet theatre show is presented by SHRiNKray Puppets.

One of the major developments planned for the 2018 National Arts Festival is the moving of the Village Green to a new site in Grahamstown. The market, which hosts about 300 traders, crafters, food vendors and artists during the course of the 11-day Festival, will move off Rhodes University's campus to the playing fields of Victoria Girls High School in Beaufort Street.

With the Johannesburg leg of its tour running full tilt, audiences in the Mother City are counting down the days until the opening night of THE MYSTERY OF IRMA VEP at Theatre on the Bay in Cape Town. DOWNTON ABBEY and the TWILIGHT saga collide in Charles Ludlam's spoof, will is being presented in South Africa by VR Theatrical by special arrangement with Samuel French.

The National Arts Festival, which ended in Grahamstown last Sunday, has reported its final attendance figures for the year. Opening on 29 June, the Festival ran for 11 days in the small university city of Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape of South Africa.

Popular actor and singer Philip Moolman will play one night only at the Drostdy Theatre in Sellenbosch this July. Most people remember Moolman as Andre Vorster in EGOLI or Neil Macdonald in SONKRING, but his career kicked off when he won Ster '90, a national singing and songwriting competition in which he was named the best singer and songwriter.

With the Festival having come to a close, the award winners for this year's Student Festival were named by an advisory team consisting of Greg Homann (who headed up the panel), Thami akaMbongo, Lara Bye, Mwenya Kabwe, Liiane Loots, Nobesuthu Rayi and Tracey Saunders.

More than two hundred productions premiered on the Fringe at The National Arts Festival this year. With the latest edition of the Festival now complete, the names of the winners of the annual Standard Bank Ovation Awards have been announced.

Ian von Memerty brings SYNERGY to Theatre on the Bay this month, and, together with his wife, Vivienne, will make onstage magic as he explores some of the greatest showbiz partnerships in the world and why they sometimes become bigger than the people involved.

Organised by the same team that puts together the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown every year, the Cape Town Fringe will be back in the Mother City from 21 September to 8 October 2017 in a brand new format.

Ngizwe, a theatre group based in Soweto, has been named the recipient of the National Arts Festival's Oliver and Adelaide Tambo Human Rights Award, which is sponsored by the Embassy of the Netherlands, for their production of THE LITTLE ONE.

THINGPHONY takes as its theme the philosophical question of whether order is intrinsic in the universe, or whether it is human beings that give order to the phenomena they experience. Performer Philip Southey discusses a wide array of topics in the show, including colour, physics, music and sex.

For as long as prejudice exists in the world, people will tell stories of star-crossed lovers. The plot of CHEERS TO SARAJEVO places a Serbian Romeo opposite a Bosnian Juliet, but this iteration of the archetypal story makes them live through the conflict in which they find themselves.

The Market Theatre production of Paul Slabolepszy's SUDDENLY THE STORM is currently in the middle of its Cape Town season at the Baxter Theatre. Having opened just two days after the Naledi Theatre Awards presented the play and its production with three awards, SUDDENLY THE STORM arrived in Cape Town a pedigree compounded by the fact that this is the prolific Slabolepszy's first new play since 2009.

Tickets are now on sale for the National Theatre's Olivier and Tony Award-winning production of THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME, adapted by Simon Stephens from Mark Haddon's best-selling book, and directed by Tony Award winner Marianne Elliott (WAR HORSE, CURIOUS INCIDENT).

The upcoming July run of Mike Leigh's ABIGAIL'S PARTY at the Masque Theatre in Muizenberg will serve as a special fundraiser for the popular Capetonian community theatre. The evening promises to be an evening of interactive fun, where the audience is encouraged to don their favourite 1970s outfit.