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Lara Foot's latest play, THE INCONVENIENCE OF WINGS, has been seven years in the making.

Cape Town 's favourite rude, raunchy and rocking country cabaret will be reborn when ANGELS ON HORSEBACK: RELOADED opens at the Alexander Bar's Upstairs Theatre later this month.

TO STAND SOMEWHERE is an hour-long solo storytelling piece, written and performed by Ter Hollmann and directed by Moses D.

A new 50-minute musical theatre piece, SOME DAYS, will premiere at the Alexander Bar's Upstairs Theatre this July.

Playwright and Arts Administrator Ashraf Johaardien has been appointed as the Executive Producer of the National Arts Festival, a newly created role aimed at taking South Africa's premier arts event boldly into the future.

With the National Arts Festival having come to a close, many people are reflecting on what they took away from their experiences in Grahamstown over the past two weeks.

kykNET films and Vry Films in association with Lion's Head Productions and Who Projects are proud to announce the release of NOBODY'S DIED LAUGHING: A JOURNEY WITH PIETER-DIRK   UYS , a theatrical-action-documentary that celebrates the life and work of performing artist and activist Pieter-Dirk Uy

LILY'S LAMENT is a theatrical reflection of mine workers' stories: an ode to the rigors of time, a meditation on fate, chance, luck and (mis)fortune.

BROKEN PLATES, the solo theatre piece by Renos Spanoudes that describes itself as a theatrical feast of comedic Greek delicacies, has been enjoying a resounding season at Sandton's  Auto & General Theatre on the Square.

WAIT, a 40-minute physical theatre performance piece written and performed by Raine Waring, will be performed at the Alexander Bar's Upstairs Theatre this July.

Outgoing National Arts Festival Artistic Director, Ismail Mahomed, was celebrated at the National Arts Festival yesterday morning, in a ceremony during which the winners of the 2016 Standard Bank Ovation Awards were revealed.

The 2016 edition of the Cape Town Fringe will be taking to the streets this year, with the inclusion of a brand new event - the Cape Town Buskers Festival - presented as part of a partnership between the Fringe and the V&A Waterfront.

ACTRESSES: AN ADAPTATION OF CHEKHOV'S 'THE SEAGULL' is the kind of production that captures one's attention.

The winner of a Silver Standard Bank Ovation Award last year, Robaby's FATHER, FATHER, FATHER is back on the National Lottery Fringe at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown.

PEOPLE BENEATH OUR FEET is the first original play from Hungry Minds Productions, written by Katya Mendelson and Kiroshan Naidoo in response to the refugee crisis that has been the result of the Syrian civil war.

Although OUT OF BOUNDS is highly watchable, director Crizelle Anthony should re-interrogate her production thoroughly so as to refine both her vision and her execution of this still significant South African play by Rajesh Gopie

NIQABI NINJA, written by Sara Shaarawi, directed by Megan Furniss, and performed by Bianca Flanders and Loren Loubser, is slated for Alexander Upstairs Theatre in July and August.

SCRATCH, written by Heather Livesey, describes itself as an 'indie style musical'.

With more than half of its run at the National Arts Festival's Albany Cabaret Club done, audiences have only a few more opportunities to see Roland Perold in his charming cabaret, A GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK.

DANI AND THE LION, Daneel van der Walt's cabaret of stories as songs, began its run at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown today, with performances continuing through 10 July.

What happens when your parents' legacy is one of violence, alcoholism and abuse? That question is at the heart of THE GRAVEYARD, Philip Rademeyer's magnificent new play for the Rust Co-Operative.

The first Standard Bank Ovation Award winner of the 2016 National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, BIRD/FISH, is a solo exhibition by Kristin NG-Yang.

WHISTLE STOP, Ameera Patel's play about a brief encounter between a man and a woman in a park, is being revived at the National Arts Festival by Dark Laugh Theatre Company and Hijinks Theatre this year.

Mandragora Circus will perform at Alexander Upstairs Theatre this weekend, July 2 and July 3.

Hungry Minds Productions will present Callum Tilbury's FABULOUS NOTHING.