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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.

The Alexander Bar and Cafe will host the award-winning Rust Co-Operative's ASHES in its Upstairs Theatre this June.

EVERY BEAUTIFUL THING is a bittersweet microcosm of the human experience.

The University of Cape Town Drama Department, in partnership with the Baxter Theatre Centre, will commemorate the life and work of Barney Simon in a season of plays when it stages TOUCHED BY BARNEY SIMON: A RETROSPECTIVE during the month of May.

EVERY BEAUTIFUL THING, a new play written by Jon Keevy, will make its bow at the Alexander Upstairs Theatre this week.

Some three decades after its first premiere, LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS still delivers on its promise to be an enjoyable romp for its audiences.

After a run at the same venue in January, Lebogang Mogashoa returns to the Alexander Bar and Cafe's Upstairs Theatre with his hour-long storytelling show, WHEN WE WERE NEARLY YOUNG.

The Council of the English Academy of Southern Africa is pleased to announce that Robin Malan is the winner of the 2014 Academy's Gold Medal in recognition for his services to English over a long career in education, theatre and publishing.

A brand new adaptation of Jane Austen's novel PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, written by actor-screenwriter Matthew Dylan Roberts, will make its bow at the Rosebank Theatre in Cape Town tonight, 24 April, for a month long run through 23 May.

The Naledi Theatre Awards reflect the vibrant and diverse nature of the South African theatrical landscape, rewarding theatre excellence in South African theatre.

Athol Fugard's THE WOMAN WITH A BABY ON HER BACK will come to Alexander Bar's and Cafe's Upstairs theatre in a run split over two weeks this April and May.

Hip-hop will meet perfromance art in SPIRITRIALS, directed by Marc Bamuthi Joseph and Sean San Jose, when the production plays the Alexander Bar and Cafe's Upstairs Theatre for two performances only this May.

Well-known radio and theatre personality Frans Swart was locked out of his Afrikaanse Treffers Studio at East Rand Stereo 93.

Cape Town's Magnet Theatre has been granted 18A Status The Magnet Training and Youth Upliftment Trust, making all donations to the trust tax deductible.

Junkets Publisher is celebrating its tenth anniversary with a brand new initiative that allows theatre lovers to help bring more brand new South African plays from the stage to the page.

Late at the Little brings the Little Theatre an incredibly exciting stand-up comedy gig with some of the best comic talent that Cape Town has to offer.

In GRANT AND SHAUN: A DOUBLE BILL OF DANCE, Cape Town artists Grant van Ster and Shaun Oelf, two of the hottest young talents on the local dance and theatre scenes, take to the Baxter's Flipside stage for a short season, from 9 to 18 April, to perform a brand new work MOST HONEST MAN and their criti

The well known Irish Duo, Foster and Allen, are visiting South Africa from 27 March to 7 April 2015 with their GOLD AND SILVER DAYS WORLD TOUR.

Lefra Productions is already well known for the laugh-out-loud farces that they present each year.

The Fugard Theatre's production of CABARET begins with a perfectly realised moment of theatre.

SINGIN' IN THE RAIN, another critically acclaimed award-winning production direct from London's West End, will be produced and presented in South Africa by Pieter Toerien at the Artscape Opera House and the Teatro at Montecasino between December 2015 and January 2016, immediately after its internati

The highly acclaimed New York-based Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, one of the world's most popular global dance companies, is planning an historic return to South Africa in September after 17 years with a robust schedule of 20 performances.

Entries for submissions for The Imbewu Trust's 2015 SCrIBE Scriptwriting Competition are now open.

The well-known Irish duo, Foster and Allen have arrived in South Africa, touching down at OR Tambo Airport in Johannesburg on Wednesday for the local leg of their GOLD AND SILVER DAYS World Tour.

After an enormously successful opening season last year, THUMBELINA, the ballet, returns to Artscape over the Easter weekend.