Mdu Kweyama News

Over half a century since the world premiere of the original production of KING KONG, Eric Abraham and the Fugard Theatre bring this legendary and iconic musical home to Johannesburg. The run will come hot off the Cape Town season, which is currently playing to rave reviews, rapturous responses and sold-out houses at the Fugard Theatre.

One of three plays by writer-director Lara Foot, KAROO MOOSE - NO FATHERS, forms part of the Baxter Theatre Centre's impressive showcase of six award-winning and cutting-edge productions at the 2017 Edinburgh Assembly Fringe Festival in Scotland this August.

Over half a century since the original production, a brand new production of KING KONG, the legendary South African musical, is now on in Cape Town. Eric Abraham produces and presents this Fugard Theatre production, which will transfer to Johannesburg following its run in the Mother City.

Over half a century since the original production, the Fugard Theatre's forthcoming, brand new production of the legendary South African musical KING KONG is fully cast, with rehearsals commencing on 12 June.

The Alexander Upstairs is proud to present the South African premiere of Suzan-Lori Parks's TOPDOG/UNDERDOG. The Pulitzer Prize-winning play tells the story of brothers named Lincoln and Booth - their father's idea of a joke - and is described the committee of that awards programme as 'a darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity'.

Originally commissioned by ABSA Aardklop Festival and first performed at the ABSA Aardklop Festival in October 2007, KAROO MOOSE will return to South African stages as a part of the 2016 National Arts Festival's showcase of work by its 2016 Featured Artist, Lara Foot. A season at the Baxter Theatre in Cape Town follows.

The 51st Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards were presented at the Baxter Theatre Centre in Cape Town on Sunday night in a ceremony that highlighted the theme of 'new beginnings'. With the main event taking place in the newly refurbished Baxter Theatre, this year's winners all received a newly designed medallion. The evening also aimed to present to the audience of theatre-makers, performers, designers, critics and patrons a fusion of cultures.

The 51st annual Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards has announced its 2015 nominees, reflecting a rich realm of theatre talent seen on stages throughout the Western Cape. The glamorous awards ceremony will take place on Sunday, 20 March, at 18:00 at the Baxter Theatre in Cape Town and will personify a fusion of cultures, food and Fleur du Cap win

CANNIBAL COUNTRY, a new physical theatre drama written and directed by Alex McCarthy, will premiere at the Alexander Bar's Upstairs Theatre this February. The hour-long piece stars Dustin Beck and Amelia Vernede.

Mdu Kweyama, one of the Baxter Theatre's 2015 artists-in-residence, puts a new spin on Reza de Wet's classic South African play, MISSING, as a part of the Baxter Theatre's showcase season of their artists-in-residence work.

Alex McCarthy, one of the Baxter Theatre's 2015 artists-in-residence, will showcase his play THE WHITE MAN'S GUIDE TO SACRIFICE at the Baxter's Golden Arrow Theatre next month.

Artscape is proud to present a varied programme consisting of three South African drama works, one from Botswana, as well as a dance production, at the National Arts Festival, between today 2 and 12 July.   These productions can be seen at the Gymnasium – a venue exclusively for Artscape.

Artscape is proud to present three South African drama works, one from Botswana and a dance production at the National Arts Festival between 2 and 12 July. These productions can be seen at the Gymnasium, a venue exclusively for Artscape productions

Artscape is proud to present a varied programme consisting of three South African drama works, one from Botswana, as well as a dance production, at the National Arts Festival, between 2 and 12 July.   These productions can be seen at the Gymnasium – a venue exclusively for Artscape.

The University of Cape Town Drama Department, in partnership with the Baxter Theatre Centre, will commemorate the life and work of Barney Simon in a season of plays when it stages TOUCHED BY BARNEY SIMON: A RETROSPECTIVE during the month of May.

In GRANT AND SHAUN: A DOUBLE BILL OF DANCE, Cape Town artists Grant van Ster and Shaun Oelf, two of the hottest young talents on the local dance and theatre scenes, take to the Baxter's Flipside stage for a short season, from 9 to 18 April, to perform a brand new work MOST HONEST MAN and their critically acclaimed THE ARCHITECTURE OF TEARS.

Although the basic outline of the play remains the same, RETURN OF THE ANCESTORS has been revised in the four months that have passed since its premiere. The new script and its associated theatrical production improve on the earlier version of the play.

Mike van Graan's RETURN OF THE ANCESTORS, the penultimate production in Artscape's 2014 Spring Drama Season, is a hard-hitting satire that genuflects to the South African classic WOZA ALBERT!, in which Mbongeni Ngema, Percy Mtwa and Barney Simon crafted a tale in which Jesus returns to South Africa during the apartheid era.

This year sees the tenth anniversary of Artscape's annual Spring Drama Season, which runs from October to November 2014 featuring four diverse plays and two showcases at the Artscape Arena Theatre. The season forms part of the Artscape's New Writing Programme, which is devoted to the professional writing and production of new South African plays.

Hot off the heels of the National Arts Festival, the productions featured this year promise to entertain, enthrall and even educate. This inter-varsity festival, FRESH FROM FEST 2013 at the Arena Theatre, creates a much needed platform for up and coming student theatre-makers to showcase their work directly after the hype of performing at Festival in Grahamstown.