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The incredibly popular Manie Jackson has joined the line-up of the huge COUNTRY SPECTACULAR at Carnival City's Big Top Arena on 18 Junie.

An independently produced fringe theatre piece, VACANCY prompts two BroadwayWorld South Africa reviews in one article.

Artscape is set to present ORATORIO OF A FORGOTTEN YOUTH: MUSICAL REFLECTIONS ON THE YOUTH OF '76 as part of the Artscape Youth Month celebrations.

Canned Rice Productions will return to the Alexander Bar, Cafe and Theatre in July with COURT, a new 65-minute drama written by Candice van Litsenborgh, who scripted FROM THE HEART, which played two seasons at the same popular Capetonian venue earlier this year.

The Kids of Kurland will present the fourth annual Plett Fringe Festival at The White House Theatre in Plettenberg Bay this June.

Nik Rabinowitz will be LIVE AND CONFUSED at the Rosebank Theatre, when his latest show runs at Cape Town's unique suburban theatre this June.

Lefra Productions's Afrikaans adaptation of Ray Cooney and John Chapman's acclaimed West End farce, THERE GOES THE BRIDE, will be staged at Carnival City's Mardi Gras Theatre this July.

Lefra Productions has a brand new 'caveman production' for South Africa.

Following the unprecedented success of the Baxter Dance Festival last year, where close to 80 choreographers participated, the organisers are calling for applications from dance studios, schools, companies, groups and independent dance-makers, as well as proposals from choreographers, for the 2016

Even if A COCK AND BULL STORY ultimately pulls its punches, the two performances around which Marthinus Basson builds his production are stellar, most likely some of the best work South African audiences will see on stage this year.

J UNK, a new play written and directed by Kimberley Buckle, will play a short season at the Galloway Theatre at the end of May.

Geraldine Aron's MY BRILLIANT DIVORCE has been produced worldwide since its debut in 2001, including a production featuring British comic legend, Dawn French.

After two successful editions of the Kasi-2-Kasi Public Art Festival (K2KPAF) in Delft and Gugulethu, Theatre4Change in partnership with the Community Arts and Culture Centres Federation of the Western Cape and the Collective of Creative Artists (COCA) are pleased to announce another round of the f

Mongiwekhaya's I SEE YOU / NGIYAKUBONA / EK SIEN JOU / NDIYAKUBONA places the issue of reconciliation within and between black communities within the wider context of South Africa's fractured rainbow nation - an image that was perhaps more idealistic than true.

Penny Youngleson's new play accomplishes its enlightenment through a domestic scenario without ever becoming didactic or patronising; that it does so by using a powerful, unique and pliable central metaphor makes SILLAGE all the more remarkable.

Stand-up comedy duo Stuart Cairns and WestleyCockrell will perform their show, THE PLOTHOLE, Down in the Basement at the Book Lounge on 27 May.

Rising young stars of the Cape Town City Ballet are set to take centre stage in the classic and comic ballet, COPPELIA, at Artscape in Cape Town.

Owing to popular demand and after an extraordinary run thus far, the Eric Abraham and Fugard Theatre production of DISTRICT SIX - KANALA, David Kramer's brand new musical tribute, has now been extended to 3 July 2016, which will also be the official closing date of the show.

The Africa Centre is pleased to announce the artists selected by The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center as part of its 2015 Artists In Residency Programme.

Live nude reading is back at the Alexander Bar's Upstairs Theatre this May with the Cape Town chapter of Naked Girls Reading presenting their new show, UNDER THE INFLUENCE.

A new production of Tom Eyen's THE WHITE WHORE AND THE BIT PLAYER, directed by Christopher Weare and starring Jazzara Jaslyn and Donna Cormack-Thomson, will open at the Alexander Bar tonight.

Jazzart Dance Theatre will present their new production INMOTION at the Artscape Theatre on 24 and 25 June.

The Sekunjalo Edujazz Concert is set to entertain and empower the Mother City once again, with this year's edition of the annual fundraising event taking place at the Artscape Theatre in June.

Cape Town City Ballet is nothing if not ambitious.

Artscape is set to present the highly anticipated, multi-award nominee Benjamin Jephta Quintet as part of the Artscape Youth Month celebrations.