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Although it is about the process of creating art, SCENES FROM AN EXECUTION will appeal to audiences wider that those with direct links to the arts.

If life is a cabaret, old chum, what is your showtune? The soul-stirring, foot-stomping, laugh-out-loud PICTURE INCOMPLETE will help audiences find out when it returns to Johannesburg's POPArt Theatre in Maboneng this April.

Theatre legend Fatima Dike styles herself as a playwright, director, teacher and mentor.

Now in its second year, the Darling Collection is a one-of-kind event, presenting performances and exhibition of artworks created to celebrate stories behind the most cherished objects of residents of Darling.

Although Karin Hougaard has been living and working abroad for seven years already, she comes home at least once a year to visit, to eat milk tart and biltong and - maybe - also to sing.

The Masque Theatre is proud to announce another night filled with singing, dancing and great fun.

Cape Town audiences now have the chance to catch the Fortune Cookie Theatre Company's brand new production of Molière's TARTUFFE, in a translation by Richard Wilbur directed by the award-winning Sylvaine Strike, at the Baxter Flipside for a limited season this April.

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.

Showtime Management, the production company behind the South African mounting of the international production of PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT, has announced the extension of the Johannesburg season of the show.

Only a few days remain until the opening of THREE'S A CROWD, a brand new play by Pfarelo Nekamonde.

Leilani Beer Van Rooyen and Michael Bullock are pleased to announce the return of RESURRECTION, the story of the resurrection of Jesus Christ through dance and drama, to the Masque Theatre for the third year.

Johannesburg-born recording artist, Ross Jack, is set to unleash his unique brand of hip-hop in North America with the release of his new album, SELF MEDICATED, which is due out 28 April on Radikal Records.

There is an almost overwhelming sense of humanity in Lebogang Mogashoa's THE REAL DIRT, which is currently enjoying a week-long season at the Alexander Bar's cosy Upstairs Theatre.

The Fugard Theatre's acclaimed production of Joshua Harmon's BAD JEWS has been nominated for four Johannesburg Naledi Theatre Awards.

The spontaneous fun of long-form improv comedy returns to the Alexander Bar's Upstairs Theatre this April in THE LONG SHOT IMPROV COMEDY, performed by Tamith Hattingh, Pags Bantwana, Eva Gilliam, Mark Penwill, Andre Ballot, Justine Buekes, Steve Larter and Rob Coutts.

LEAR'S FOOL, a theatre piece written for a single fool and based on the William Shakespeare's KING LEAR, will make its way to the Alexander Bar's Upstairs Theatre in April.

Cradle of Creativity: The 19th ASSITEJ World Congress and International Theatre Festival for Children and Young Audiences is a spectacular African festival with some of the most exciting international and local theatre for young audiences set to take to the stage in Cape Town this May.

Join Wesley Wolhuter, art music composer, pianist and cellist, as he performs a solo piano recital at the Masque Theatre in Muizenberg on 2 April at 19:00.

JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT - currently running at Theatre on the Bay - won two awards at the 52nd Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards.

The Beatrix Potter's delightful story for children, THE TALE OF PETER RABBIT, will be at Artscape Theatre Foyer during the April school holidays, presented by Stagecraft Drama Studio.

Acclaimed guitarist and two-time SAMA nominee James Grace makes a welcome return to the Alexander Bar with GUITAR HERO 2, which showcases the most popular guitar-based songs and melodies from the 20th century, drawing on a variety of playing techniques from an array of genres.

Calling all writers! It's SCrIBE time! Entries for submissions for The Imbewu Trust's 2017 SCrIBE Scriptwriting Competition open on 31 March.

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.