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Relive the magic of the decades as A SONG AND DANCE THROUGH THE AGES moves from the 1920s right through to today's pop culture, showcasing the best hit songs and dances from cabaret to rock and more in an awe-inspiring and exhilarating 90-minute show.

The Masque Theatre is thrilled to announce that Soli Philander will be hosting a holiday workshop entitled BREAKING BARRIERS on 5 October in our auditorium.

Due to public demand, the application deadline for the Africa Centre's 2016 Artists in Residency (AIR) Programme has been extended to 14 October.

Local and international buskers are headed for the V&A Waterfront this week as the first ever Cape Town Buskers' Festival gets underway.

The way that Ryan Napier tells the story of DEATH OF A CLOWN, through a solo live performance piece, prompts the question of whether this format and medium is the best way to tell this story, and the stalemate it reaches as an extended theatrical presentation is wrapped up in the answer.

POLICE COPS is pastiche on a grand scale, taking the buddy cop genre, putting a self-aware spin on it and playing tropes that were once taken extremely seriously to the very edge of sheer lunacy.

Artscape is set to present the much-awaited return of ITYALA LA MAWELE at the Artscape Theatre this October.

Following a sold out performance at the Fugard Theatre earlier this year, Eric Abraham and the Fugard Theatre present four solo piano concerts by global music icon and South African legend Abdullah Ibrahim.

The Artscape Theatre is set to present the much anticipated second season of New Voices with a first double bill of BUT, THE LAND and UTHANDO.

Showtime Management in association with Lunchbox Theatrical Productions and Nullarbor Productions, invite local audiences to join them for what they hope will be the musical journey of a lifetime when the critically-acclaimed hit musical PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT, based on the Oscar-winning film

An exibition of male nudes by artist Evan Oberholster is currently running in the parlour room at Alexander Bar, in tandem with the delightful new play premiering at the Cape Town Fringe, the comedy The Finkelsteins are Coming to Dinner, which will also be transferring to Alexander Upstairs after Fr

The discrimination against girls and young women when it comes to their education remains a pervasive issue in contemporary society.

The Alexander Bar, Café and Theatre will host a one night show specifically for the German community, an evening of sketch comedy written and played in German by Oskar Brown and Sofie Junker.

The Cape Town chapter of Naked Girls Reading returns to the Alexander Bar's Upstairs Theatre for SEVEN DEADLY SINS, a 75-minute live reading, this November.

BLACK PROPHET DOWN, a solo theatre piece by Ian Tucker (A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE TALENT SHOW), performed by Brendon Daniels (ROOILAND) with additional dialogue and direction by Bo Petersen (DEAD YELLOW SANDS) will run at the Alexander Bar's Upstairs Theatre this October.

A two-hour R&B and soul music show, #BECAUSE_SOUL, will be on stage at the Alexander Upstairs for one night only this October.

Odysseus Finn is epic.

Writer-director Koleka Putuma's assemblage of ideas and motifs in WOZA SARAFINA! is constructed within the context of the #RhodesMustFall movement and is informed by the ideologies that underpin that movement.

Dealing with the concepts of technological singularity and transhumanism, Adina and Michael Verson-McQuilken's MACHINE MAKES MAN navigates its way through the traditions of science fiction, ultimately emerging as a poignant reflection on the nature of humanity, with some broadly comic entertainment

Stuart Lightbody is back at the Cape Town Fringe, inviting audiences to come and revel in award-winning magic and sleight of hand wonder in MEMORABLE MOMENTS WITH STUART LIGHTBODY.

South African's own Mime Master, John Jacobs, is back in South Africa with his new production, MY PASSIE VIR JESUS, following his representation of South Africa at the Leonid Yengibaryan International Mime Festival in Tsakhkadzor, Armenia last month.

Since its inception in 2011, the Africa Centre's Artist in Residency Programme (AIR) has successfully awarded 39 African artists the chance to take up residencies across the globe.

ANDRE THE HILARIOUS HYPNOTIST has held audiences spellbound for more than two decades.

Brilliantly innovative, heartbreaking and wickedly funny, HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH, the iconic rock musical, is the opening production at Gate69, Cape Town's newest theatre venue on Bree Street.

Having played a premiere season at the Alexander Bar's Upstairs Theatre earlier this year, Louis Viljoen's THE EMISSARY, starring Emily Child and Andrew Laubscher, will play a return season at this year's Cape Town Fringe.