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EPSTEIN: THE MAN WHO MADE THE BEATLES is a window into the private world of Brian Epstein, the music entrepreneur whose stellar career as The Beatles' manager made him a household name, yet whose controversial personal life remained the purview of only friends and close business associates.

For the past 21 years, ANDRE THE HILARIOUS HYPNOTIST has held his audience spellbound with his dry wit, offbeat sense of humour and ability to get members of the public to do various strange, weird and incredibly entertaining routines on stage!

After sold-out seasons in Cape Town and Johannesburg in earlier this year, AN AUDIENCE WITH PIETER-DIRK EISH will be back at Theatre on the Bay from 2 November 2015.

The world's premier theatrical ice skating company, The Imperial Ice Stars, returns to South Africa with a dynamic new interpretation of its award-winning masterpiece SWAN LAKE ON ICE.

The University of Cape Town's Drama Department presents the annual student-run theatre festival, FRESH FROM FEST, at the university's Hiddingh Campus.

Comedy will be the order of the day when MOTHER CITY SKETCH hits Alexander Bar Upstairs Theatre for a short season starting tonight, 16 July.

Cape Town City Ballet will present Marc Goldberg's adaptation of Noel Coward's first great commercial success, THE VORTEX, at Theatre on the Bay at the end of July 2015.

Presented at Artscape by Eric Abraham and the Fugard Theatre, WEST SIDE STORY, the musical masterpiece by Leonard Bernstein, Arthur Laurents and Stephen Sondheim, based on an original conception of Jerome Robbins, opens at the Artscape Opera House on 23 July 2015.

Kosie Smit will present the Afrikaans production TWEE VIR DIE PRYS VAN EEN, written by Donald Churchill and translated by Wim Vorster, at Theatre on the Bay for a two week season, starting tonight, 15 July.

Kosie Smit will present Marion Holm en Chris Vorster's one-woman comedy show, MARION HOLM VIR BEGINNERS, with Holm on stage and Vorster directing, from tonight at the Montecasino Theatre and Studio in Johannesburg, with a transfer to Theatre on the Bay in Cape Town this coming August

Fleur du Cap Theatre Award winning actress Daneel van der Walt will return in her acclaimd new cabaret, DANI AND THE LION, at the Alexander Bar and Cafe's Upstairs Theatre this July, following its successful preview run last month.

One of the most successful stage comedies on London's West End, TOM, DICK AND HARRY, adapted for the South African stage as MY BOETIE SE BOETIE SE BOETIE SE BABA, hits Carnival City's Mardi Gras Theatre in July 2015.

The long overdue collaboration between physical theatre master Andrew Buckland and wonderfully creative director Sylvaine Strike is an intersection of two great theatre minds and a dream come true for many theatre lovers.

To mark the 20th anniversary of the passing of theatre legend Barney Simon, the Baxter Theatre Centre, in association with the National Arts Festival, is proud to revive his hit production BORN IN THE RSA, 30 years after its world premiere.

An Afrikaans translation of one of London's West End's most successful farces, MY BOETIE SE BOETIE SE BOETIE SE BABA, will visit the Innibos Arts Festival in Nelspruit from 30 June - 4 July 2015.

The Alexander Bar Upstairs Theatre presents several new and established artists on their way to the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown.

Artscape is proud to present three South African drama works, one from Botswana and a dance production at the National Arts Festival between 2 and 12 July.

Jazzart Dance Theatre will present AZISHE! for a limited season of four performances at the Artscape Theatre this July.

After a sold-out run at the Alexander Bar and Cafe's Upstairs Theatre last year, and another at The Kalk Bay Theatre, VIOLET ONLINE comes back to the Alexander with a quick run before heading off to the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown.

Just back from an international tour including Brighton Fringe, Prague Fringe and Fringe World Perth where it was nominated for the Theatre Award, DEVILISH comes to the Alexander Bar and Cafe's Upstairs Theatre.

BroadwayWorld South Africa previews 26 productions at the NAF: an A-Z of shows waiting to engage and entertain you, along with booking and venue details.

Fleur du Cap Theatre Award winning actress Daneel van der Walt will appear in a brand new cabaret, DANI AND THE LION, at the Alexander Bar and Café's Upstairs Theatre.

A staged reading of BLACK PROPHET DOWN, a new political text-in-development by Ian Tucker, will take place at the Alexander Bar and Cafe's Upstairs Theatre this Saturday afternoon.

With 2015 approaching the halfway mark, the South African theatre scene is shifting into second gear.

CAT SINGS ELLA!, a musical theatre experience of pure pleasure that promises to stir 'Body and Soul', will play a season at the Rosebank Theatre in Cape Town this May and June, prior to a run at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown in July.