SARAFINA! Playwright Mbongeni Ngema Dies at 68
BroadwayWorld is saddened to report that playwright Mbongeni Ngema has died at age 68, following a car accident.
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Bheki Mkhwane Departs BOPHA! Season at South African State Theatre
The South African State Theatre has announced that veteran performer Bheki Mkhwane will no longer be part of Bopha's season -starting from 25 May to 13 June 2021- after being booked off sick for four weeks.
South African State Theatre Announces Online Programming
With uncertainty of when theatre doors will re-open, the South African State Theatre (SAST) continues to keep its audiences engaged through its growing online theatre platform (#SASTOnlineTheatre).
Mbongeni Ngema and Percy Mtwa Reprise Roles in WOZA ALBERT! at the Baxter Theatre
Acclaimed South African theatre luminaries, Mbongeni Ngema and Percy Mtwa, reprise their original roles - created some 40 years ago - in one of this country's most brilliant and popular classics, Woza Albert!, at the Baxter Flipside from 5 February to 2 March 2019 at 7.
Jam-packed Eighth Annual Baxter Zabalaza Theatre Festival Now On Stage
The eighth annual 2018 Zabalaza Theatre Festival to showcase some 40 productions by dynamic young theatre-makers from all over the Western Cape.
BWW Awards Special: South African Theatre Winners Celebrate the 2016 Regional BroadwayWorld South Africa Awards
It was no unlucky Friday the 13th for South Africa's theatre community when BroadwayWorld's Regional Managing Editor Christina Mancuso released the names of the of the winners of the 2016 BroadwayWorld South Africa Awards.
BWW Review: Will the Real WOZA ALBERT! Please Stand Up?
WOZA ALBERT! remains an incredibly powerful play.
BWW Review: WOZA SARAFINA! at Cape Town Fringe a Disruption that Needs to Erupt
Writer-director Koleka Putuma's assemblage of ideas and motifs in WOZA SARAFINA! is constructed within the context of the #RhodesMustFall movement and is informed by the ideologies that underpin that movement.
Who Was Lucille Lortel and Why Is There An Award Named For Her?
With a career spanning seventy years in the theatre, Lucille Lortel's life mission was to help nurture emerging innovative playwrights.
BWW Reviews: Revised and Improved RETURN OF THE ANCESTORS at the Artscape Still Not a Game Changer
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.
Mike van Graan's RETURN OF THE ANCESTORS Next in Artscape's Spring Drama Season
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
Artscape Spring Drama Season Celebrates Tenth Anniversary
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.
BWW Reviews: RETURN OF THE ANCESTORS Falters Rather than Flies at the National Arts Festival
Protest theatre should burn fiercely in the darkness that surrounds it; RETURN OF THE ANCESTORS only flickers enough for us to make out what we have already seen.
Danny Glover & Debbi Morgan to Host NFT 44th Anniversary Gala, 3/16
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2013 South African Theatre Retrospectives: South African Revivals and Productions of International Plays
This retrospective focuses on revivals of classic South African plays and local productions the work of international playwrights.
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