SOUTH AFRICA THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 116

The Artscape Theatre Centre is dedicated to creating an environment for sustainable theatre practice, education and development.

Magnet Theatre, in partnership with the Goethe-Institut, presents Worker's Day weekend activities for the whole family.

Nicky Schrire and James Scholfield will team up for 75 minutes of jazz and folk music at the Alexander Bar and Cafe's Upstairs Theatre come the ides of May.

Alexander Bar's Upstairs Theatre will host THE GAME: OHNE DICH (WITHOUT YOU), an hour-long comedy performed by Milton Schorr, Andrew Roux and Mikki-Dene Le Roux, for a three-performance season this May.

Songwriter Lucy Kruger teams up with Andre Leo to bring 50 minutes of psychedelic folk music to the Alexander Bar and Cafe's Upstairs Theatre this May

YOU SUCK (AND OTHER INESCAPABLE TRUTHS) - for which its performer, Klara van Wyk picked up a Fleur du Cap Theatre Award nomination for Best Performance in a Revue, Cabaret or One-Person Show - will return to the Alexander Bar and Cafe's Upstairs Theatre this May.

Canned Rice Productions and Shannyn Fourie's show about country music legend June Carter Cash and her husband, Johnny, will return to the Alexander Bar's Upstairs Theatre for an encore season this May.

Having performed alone on the stages of the world for well over seven thousand times, Pieter-Dirk Uys has learnt that every show is the first and the last performance - because each audience demands and gets a different energy, topicality and excitement.

A localised reimagining of British playwrights Richard Zajdlic and Richard Crowe's blockbuster play, A COCK AND BULL STORY, will be directed by Marthinus Basson for a season at Theatre on the Bay this May.

The moment that Bat lovers everywhere have been waiting for here: THE BATS will bring that 'old bat magic' back when Eddie Eckstein, Paul Ditchfield, Pete Clifford and Derek Gordon reunite for a six-performance run at Theatre on the Bay this June.

Take South Africa's 'king of the keyboard', Ian von Memerty, put him together with eight of the greatest songwriting piano stars and you have the recipe for a smash-hit show: KEYBOARD KILLERS.

Pieter Toerien presents Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's sparkling family musical, JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT, on stage at Theatre on the Bay from 12 August to 5 November 2016.

Grade 10 and 12 Afrikaans learners have the chance to see and experience their set-work books in '3D' with the current season of FIELA SE KIND and the upcoming run of KRISMAS VAN MAP JACOBS next month.

SILLAGE, a new play writted, designed and directed by Penelope Youngleson, will be presented by the Rust Co-Operative at the Alexander Bar and Cafe's Upstairs Theatre this May.

Imbumba Theatre Company and The Port Elizabeth Opera house present CRY AFRICA as the first production to open Dance Seasons.

Artscape, in collaboration with the Baxter Theatre Centre and JK Productions, is gearing up to present the much anticipated John Kani's MISSING.

After the overwhelming 10-year success of GROET DIE GROTMAN and the record-breaking total of more than 1 000 performances of the production, Lefra Productions is pleased to announce that a new 'cave' is coming: GROET DIE GROTHELD, with comic actor Cobus Venter in the title role.

How meaningful is the recognition of Theatre for Young Audiences at major South African theatre awards ceremonies such as the Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards and the Naledi Theatre Awards>

Giacomo Puccini's popular opera classic, LA BOHÈME, is once again coming to Cape Town, staged this time as LA BOHÈME IN DISTRICT SIX.

VRG Theatrical is proud to announce that a new, upscale production of I LOVE YOU, YOU'RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE will be presented in Cape Town and Johannesburg from July to September 2016.

It has been a busy couple of months for Junkets, with the independent publishing company recently holding the Junkets10Series launch along with its tenth birthday party, adding several new titles to its catalogue and celebrating its authors and compilers in awards ceremonies across the country.

Entries for submissions for The Imbewu Trust's 2016 SCrIBE Scriptwriting Competition are now open.

After the success of 2015's Barney Simon Season, the UCT Drama Department will once again curate a season of plays from South Africa.

The UCT Drama Department, in collaboration with the Queen Mary University of London Drama Department and the Leverhulme Trust will showcase WHAT REMAINS by Nadia David, a new work-in-progress that will be directed by Jay Pather.

The second in the trilogy of Nicholas Ellenbogen's plays based in Bulawayo is THE LOBENGULA STREET HARD COVER BOOK CLUB.