Birth Place: SOUTH AFRICA
With only two weeks to go before its first performance, The Fugard Theatre is gearing up to welcome Capetonian audiences to a brand new production of the classic 1964 musical, FUNNY GIRL.
The Fugard Theatre's acclaimed production of Joshua Harmon's BAD JEWS has been nominated for four Johannesburg Naledi Theatre Awards.
The Fugard Theatre scooped three prestigious Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards at the 2016 ceremony which was held at Artscape Theatre last night.
The Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards were presented at a ceremony themed 'Live with Flair' at the Artscape Theatre Center last night, with the undisputed highlight of the night being the disruption of the ceremony by Mamela Nyamza, Chuma Sopotela, Buhlebezwe Siwani, and Zikhona Jacobs.
The 52nd Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards will be presented tonight at the Artscape Theatre in Cape Town. With the local theatre industry counting down to the ceremony, BroadwayWorld presents a special feature that highlights the nominees and some of the discourse that has transpired since the nominations were released last month.
Productions that the Fugard Theatre has produced or hosted in 2016 have received an incredible twenty nominations in the recently announced shortlist for the Fleur du Cap Awards.
The 52nd annual Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards today announced its nominees. These annual awards are amongst the most coveted in the South African performing arts fraternity. For over 50 years, the Fleur du Cap wine brand has proudly associated itself with the Theatre Awards as they showcase the flair that is synonymous with the wine.
This return season of BAD JEWS comes hot on the heels of the announcement of "post-truth" as Oxford's word of the year, giving audiences a moment to pause and reflect on the way we handle our lives in a post-truth society and us to consider what we destroy in our quest to be right.
After a sold-out season in Cape Town and Johannesburg, the Fugard Theatre's South African production of Joshua Harmon's West End smash hit BAD JEWS, will return for a limited season from 13 December.
The Fugard Theatre's production of CLYBOURNE PARK arrives at a time when South Africa is caught up in Archibald MacLeish's idea of 'the play without the play,' a world in which the gentrification trend and the problems caused by white privilege denialism intersect.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (2011), the Olivier Award for Best New Play (2011) and the Tony Award for Best Play (2012), Bruce Norris's acclaimed black (and white) comedy CLYBOURNE PARK is set to have its South African premiere at the Fugard Theatre this year.
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
There are only 13 performances left of the Fugard Theatre's production of David Kramer's newest musical, ORPHEUS IN AFRICA, currently playing at the Fugard Theatre in Cape Town. Having enjoyed a return season since September following its world premiere earlier this year, ORPHEUS IN AFRICA must close on 9 January 2016.
David Kramer's ORPHEUS IN AFRICA, an original South African musical, will run through the summer holiday season at the Fugard Theatre.
ORPHEUS IN AFRICA, the Fugard Theatre production of David Kramer's brand new musical, will return to the Fugard Theatre from 22 September 2015 following its world premiere season there earlier this year.
The Fleur du Cap nominations are out! Here are some thoughts about the nominees in each of the categories.
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.
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 in 1900.
The Fugard Theatre in Cape Town has received 8 prestigious Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards nominations for productions presented in 2014.
The nominees for the prestigious 50th annual Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards, to be presented at a glamorous function on Sunday 15 March at 18:00 at the Artscape Opera House in Cape Town, have been announced in Stellenbosch today.
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