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The Fugard Theatre in Cape Town has received 8 prestigious Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards nominations for productions presented in 2014.

Jon Keevy's DIRTY WORDS was born in the fast and loose crucible that is Alexander Upstairs' own monthly experimental platform, Play Things.

On 5 March 2015, kykNET will roll out the blue carpet for the fifth Fiestas, a glamorous awards event where the role players and talent in the Afrikaans arts are honoured.

In STAGE BY STAGE, Jonathan Roxmouth shares some of his own stories and personal anecdotes that will give you a peek behind the scenes and have you chuckling as you tap your toes to highlights like the raucous 'Broadway Baby', the swinging 'Luck Be A Lady Tonight', the groovin' 'Beauty School Dropou

Playwright ROY SMILES' brilliant and irreverent trilogy on comedy history ends fittingly with his ingenious comic revue, PYTHONESQUE.

The classic Alan Menken and Howard Ashman musical, LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, will open for a season at Theatre on the Bay in 2015.

Five years on from its official opening in February 2010, the Fugard Theatre announces its first out of house production.

The Chaeli Campaign presents a line up of great South African music and theatre at the Ability Festival from 4 to 7 March at the Masque Theatre in Muizenburg.

Bookings for the spectacular ballet, CARMEN, are now open at Computicket.

Underground Dance Theatre is embarking on an exciting new adventure - ASKOOP, a fresh, edgy and uniquely South African cabaret touring to the 2015 Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees.

Following a rave-reviewed opening at the 2014 National Arts Festival, Cape Town is in for a treat with the local premiere of South African musical, YOU BET YOUR LIFE!

Pieter-Dirk Uys's new look at South Africa and the world around us in 2015, AN AUDIENCE WITH PIETER-DIRK EISH!, is a veritable national assembly of this South African legend's cluster of satirical characters, some which have been firm favourites with Uys's audiences since the 1980s.

Today, on Thursday 12 February, to mark the occasion of the Fugard Theatre's fifth birthday since its official opening, the Fugard Theatre staff and the cast and crew of David Kramer's highly acclaimed musical ORPHEUS IN AFRICA, will light the candles on a birthday cake after the curtain call of the

Improguise, Cape Town's award-winning, most-loved improv company brings the art of spontaneity to life with compelling unscripted theatre every Monday night at the Galloway Theatre, Cape Town's newest fringe theatre located on the premises of the Waterfront Theatre School.

After Evita Bezuidenhout's #CommitYourSelfie campaign against corruption and pessimism in South Africa developed into a tsunami of support on the beloved personality's Twitter account, Tannie Evita was inspired to write the lyrics to an anthem called 'A Song for Tomorrow'.

The award-winning psychological thriller BLUE/ORANGE, by British playwright Joe Penhall, brings psychiatric theory and practice under scrutiny, in the Baxter Golden Arrow Studio, from 12 February to 14 March at 8.

The nominees for the prestigious 50th annual Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards, to be presented at a glamorous function on Sunday 15 March at 18:00 at the Artscape Opera House in Cape Town, have been announced in Stellenbosch today.

Legendary theatre personality Evita Bezuidenhout, will deliver her Luthuli Housekeeping Report to the Cape Town Press Club.

Marthinus Basson's epic South African adaptation of Shakespeare's classic, MACBETH.

Showtime Management and Feld Entertainment invite families to turn the chilly 2015 winter school holidays into an extraordinary outing at its new ice extravaganza, Disney On Ice presents Let's Celebrate! featuring more than 50 classic and contemporary Disney characters in a captivating compilation o

Magnet Theatre's I TURNED AWAY AND SHE WAS GONE, will be performed Wednesday to Saturdays from 18 February until 14 March 2015 at 20:00 at Magnet Theatre in Cape Town.

Billed as Bailey Snyman's dance interpretation of Andre Carl van der Merwe's novel, MOFFIE sets itself a demanding task in adapting and translating the themes of Van der Merwe's harrowing novel.

MOFFIE, a dance play about love, loss, survival, sexuality and violence, opens today 27 January at Artscape Theatre for a short run of 6 performances.

Fred Abrahamse's staging of OTHELLO fails to capture the accelerating spiral in which the titular character finds himself on the way to his doom; this OTHELLO is a bland, watered down affair that is, at best, a devastatingly competent reading of the play.

MOTHER CITY SKETCH presents original comedy skits performed live by members of The Long Shots theatre troupe alongside special guests from the Cape Town comedy scene.