SOUTH AFRICA THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 105

The Masque Theatre is proud to announce that Soli Philander will be entertaining audiences with the funny, irreverent and fresh NICE COAT at the theatre for four nights only.

HASHTAG LOTTERING! returns to the Baxter Theatre this January after a sell-out season of the show last month.

Through storytelling and song, PICTURE INCOMPLETE sketches out the portrait of a man's life as he celebrates a rather unusual birthday on which an eviction notice arrives advising him to vacate his apartment.

Godfrey Johnson and Nicholas McDiarmid, armed with one piano and four hands, aim to seduce audiences in THIS IS NOT AMERICA.

Improv makes its way back to the Alexander Bar, Theatre and Café with Megan Furniss and company in the hour-long TWO PARROTS AND A SANDCASTLE.

Wesley Doucette on the presentation of MOURNING SUN in Uganda as discussed in an interview with performer Adrian Baidoo.

Jazz maestro Camillo Lombard will head TopDogSA to pay musical homage to Khoi and San heroes with their brand-new Nama Jazz Series at Artscape Arena from 28 - 31 December 2016.

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.

The filthy mind behind the cult-hit DIRTY WORDS is back at Alexander Bar with a sizzling new show.

ANNIE, the popular musical based upon the Harold Gray's comic strip Little Orphan Annie, with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, and book by Thomas Meehan, will add to the magic of New Year's Eve in the Mother City magic, ringing in the new year with a 21:00 performance on 31 Decemb

Pieter Toerien Productions invites audiences to celebrate on New Year's Eve at Theatre on the Bay with a special late performance of Alan Committie's new show, LAUGHING MATTERS.

Reconciliation Day, a day of great significance in South Africa will be celebrated at Artscape with a host of activities honouring the legacy of Adam Small.

Louis Viljoen's OH BABY, I'M A WILD ONE is a character study of a first-year teacher trying to sift through the psychological debris that a confluence of key events has bulldozed into her life.

Artscape Theatre is gearing up to enhance this year's festive season mood by hosting various Cape Town based choirs and bands.

Lefra Productions and RSG's popular Oppiwater Arts Festival, which is presented on board the luxurious MSC Sinfonia, has just been nominated for a Fiesta Award as the most popular festival in 2016.

Artscape Theatre in association with The Maynardville Theatre Trust and The City of Cape Town will present an adaptation of the romantic Shakespearean comedy, TWELFTH NIGHT, at the Maynardville's Open Air Theatre in 2017.

Having launched its festive season run yesterday, WHEN LION HAD WINGS will play the Masque Theatre Foyer from 12-15 December.

The Baxter's sensational festive season programme is set to entertain and delight audiences, culminating in the highly popular New Year's Eve party.

The Cape Dance Company's season of SACREDSPACE will close this weekend, with the classical-contemporary company's annual Artscape season having opened on 3 December.

After a sell-out season of Florian Zeller's THE FATHER with Marius Weyers, Anna-Mart van der Merwe stars in the SA premiere of Zeller's companion piece THE MOTHER.

The six high school semi-finalists for REVUE 2016 were recently announced on the live television series of the same title that has been screening on KykNET NOU! since October.

Under the meticulous direction of Frances Slabolepszy, the award-winning duo and real-life couple, Ameera Patel and Jaques de Silva, bring the acclaimed comedic two-hander WHISTLE STOP to the Baxter Golden Arrow stage for a short season this summer.

BONJOUR MONSIEUR BREL, the stage production that premiered earlier this year at the Klein Karoo National Arts Festival to an enthusiastic reception will tour the Eastern and Western Cape over the festive season.

The smash hit musical GREASE will be hitting the Masque Theatre stage this December.

Great excitement is the order of the day at REVUE 2016, where the four finalists in the primary school category of the competition have just been announced.