SOUTH AFRICA THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 106

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.

Bollywood aficionados are in for a treat with a three-day cultural extravaganza, the Blu Blood Bollywood Experience, taking over the Sandton Convention Centre from 2 - 4 December 2016.

Unmute Dance Company in association with Artscape Theatre is set to celebrate the International Week for Persons with Disabilities by presenting IMBIZO on 2 December 2016 at Artscape Theatre.

First class cabaret returns to the Alexander Bar's Upstairs Theatre when DANI AND THE LION runs at the intimate theatre venue in Cape Town this festive season.

Lefra Productions is gearing up to stage a theatrical adaptation of Dalene Matthee's beloved novel, FIELA SE KIND, in 2017.

RSG and Lefra Productions's fourth Oppiwater Arts Festival take place next year from April 30 to May 5 aboard the luxurious MSC Sinfonia.

ANNIE, the world's favourite family musical, will be presented by Pieter Toerien and Hazel Feldman at Artscape for the 2016 festive season.

With the holiday season at hand, it is time to have a good laugh and MURDERING AGATHA CHRISTIE at the Rosebank Theatre promises to be just the ticket.

Nik Rabinowitz has just turned 40 and is on the verge of a midlife crisis.

BACKSTAGE FOLLIES takes a look at what happens behind the red velvet curtain, and behind the flash of sequins and onstage sass as four women tell their stories of handsome men, unforgettable sex, broken hearts and their love-struck teen days.

Summer's scorching at the Fugard Bioscope with the hottest screenings of world cinema with theatre, opera and ballet productions to be enjoyed from the comfort of a seat at The Fugard Bioscope.

Written by acclaimed playwright, ROBERT FRIDJHON, comes a very funny and absurdly inventive tale of the one case the British Empire never wanted mentioned, or written about.

Dance for All (DFA) follows their recent 25th year Anniversary celebrations at Artscape with Imibulelo (In Gratitude from Us to You) to be presented at the Springfield Convent Centenary Hall on Saturday, 10 December in two performances at 14:00 and 19:00.

LOVE ME TINDER - VIOLET ONLINE REBOOTED will play a season of 12 performances at the Alexander Upstairs this festive season.

OH BABY, I'M A WILD ONE is a new character study by multiple award-winning playwright Louis Viljoen, starring Emma Kotze.

WE DIDN'T COME TO HELL FOR THE CROISSANTS: SEVEN DEADLY NEW STORIES FOR CONSENTING ADULTS returns to the Alexander Bar and Café's Upstairs Theatre this December.

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.

A SPARTACUS OF AFRICA, featuring the original music of Khachaturian, will be presented for a limited season at the Oude Libertas Amphitheatre this November.

After a sell-out season earlier this year, Pieter-Dirk Uys returns with his acclaimed memoir THE ECHO OF A NOISE, this time to the Baxter Theatre, from 29 November 2016.

The ImproGuise team has a very special relationship with the people of the peninsula, with years of performing in venues from Kalk Bay to Muizenberg, and now, after a bit of an absence on that side of the mountain, the team returns for three nights of TheatreSports with GAME ON!

Lwanda Sindaphi's KUDU is set in the year 2030.

THE FUNERAL, a theatre piece written and performed by Mpapa Simo Majola, will play the South African Sendinggestig Museum in Cape Town.

Respected psychiatrist Dr Sean Baumann's highly anticipated cantata MADNESS: SONGS OF HOPE AND DESPAIR, will bring mental illness and psychotic experiences into the spotlight, at the Baxter Theatre, for one night only this December.

With a royal flush of South Africa's best Indian comedy giants, Kings & Queens of Comedy And All' is guaranteed to be a show of hysterical proportions, taking place at the Sandton Convention Centre on Saturday, 3rd December 2016.

After a year and a half of living and performing all over Europe, South Africa's ground-breaking indie-acoustic musician Gary Thomas has returned home as Eland Gray.