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Abrahamse & Meyer Productions will present OVER THERE, a play written by Mark Ravenhill at the Alexander Bar's Upstairs Theatre this November.

Vocalist Lisa Bauer will bring her new project MOON SONG to the Alexander Theatre for one night only in November.

THE HEROIN DIARIES, an award-winning hour-long drama written by Milton Schorr, will play the Alexander Bar's Upstairs Theatre this November.

The countdown has begun for the Baxter Theatre's 2017 Afrikaans Season, which is made up of Wessel Pretorius in DIE ONTELBARE 48 and Antoinette Kellerman in AS DIE BROEK PAS.

One of South Africa's longest standing and most celebrated theatre companies, Magnet Theatre, presents two new works: 23 YEARS, A MONTH AND 7 DAYS by Nwabisa Plaatjie and KUDU by Lwanda Sindaphi.

Cirque Eloize's high-energy production ID, which blends breathtaking acrobatics and street dance, makes its Cape Town debut at the Artscape Theatre Centre next month, transferring to Montecasino's Teatro in Johannesburg after just fifteen performances.

Godfrey Johnson returns to The Foxwood Theatre this November, joined by pianist extraordinaire, Nicholas McDiarmid, for 2 MEN AND A PIANO.

HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH at Gate69 not only celebrates its queerness but also reminds us that we have our own Hedwigs to celebrate and our own Berlin Walls to conquer.

Nominations have now opened for the 2016 BroadwayWorld Regional Awards, honoring productions which opened between October 1, 2015 through September 30, 2016.

Nicholas and Luke Ellenbogen's CATTLE DRIVE, has extended its season at Cape Town's Rosebank Theatre by popular demand and will now run until 16 November.

With the Muizenberg Festival having kicked off its week-long run yesterday, ASSITEJ SA is delighted to stage three dynamic performances this coming weekend: UNMUTE, PAIRED and PATCHWORK.

Richard Kaplan's debut as a produced playwright with THE FINKELSTEINS ARE COMING FOR DINNER offers an evening of solid entertainment.

DE-APART-HATE will mean a lot to everyone who is trying to engage with what is going on in our country at the moment.

HOLY CONTRACT ends with a brief but powerful statement that compels us to reflect on our personal, social, political or artistic narratives.

SONGS FOR KHWEZI is theatre that one hopes to see grow in its reach.

WOZA ALBERT! remains an incredibly powerful play.

The closing weekend of the third Cape Town Fringe Festival commenced with two announcements - firstly, that the Fringe has been invited to be the newest member of the prestigious World Fringe Alliance and secondly, that an exciting new project has been launched to seek out uniquely Cape Town stories

TERMITE! TALL TALES FOR BIG PEOPLE is a dynamic performance piece in which two actors tell a trio contemporary tales that blend izinganekwane with physical theatre .

THE AYE, a stage show adapted from Ana Isabel Ordonez's internationally acclaim ed book, THE EXTRAORDINARY LOVE STORY OF AYE AYE AND FEDOR, will be performed to celebrate the 85th birthday of Nobel Peace Laureate Monsigneur Archbishop Desmond Tutu as a part of the Sixth Annual Desmond Tutu Inter

The winners of the 2016 SCrIBE Scriptwriting Competition were announced at the end of last week, following a week of professional staged readings featuring four finalists.

LA RÊVE DU LUCIE brings children and their guardians together like few theatre pieces for young audiences manage to do.

It is quite remarkable when contemporary theatre-makers succeed in taking on a classic work and reinventing it so that it resonates within the context of our particular space and time.

THE GRUFFALO seems to have done brisk business at the Cape Town Fringe and is sure to have a life on South African stages beyond this initial engagement, with an isiXhosa version already lined up for next year.

The encore season of PORSELEIN at the South African State Theatre has just begun its final week of performances, with closing night set for 8 October.

I LOVE YOU SALLY FIELD, a new comedy written and directed by Wessel Pretorius and starring David Viviers, Kathleen Stephens and Du Toit Albertze, will open at the Alexander Bar, Cafe and Theatre this October.