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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.

If you think your life is complicated, put yourself in John Smith's shoes for a moment.

THE PERVERT LAURA, a dark psycho-drama written and directed by the award-winning playwright Louis Viljoen will transfer to the Fugard Studio Theatre in Cape Town in May 2015 after a highly acclaimed debut at the historical Little Theatre in December last year.

The Baxter Theatre's Afrikaans season is in full swing, with the second of three productions, DIE ONGELOOFLIKE REIS VAN MAX EN LOLA, having opened last week.

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

Three friends, three actors, two producers, one narrator, one warehouse, twenty four bats, five and a half marital aides, 60 tubes of lube, one bucket of cheaper lube, bought earlier.

The premiere of SAMSA-MASJIEN in the Baxter Theatre's Flipside venue last week was my second experience of the play.

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

Penelope Youngleson and Philip Rademeyer's Rust Co-Operative is a theatre collective that does not shy away from controversial and provocative subject matter.

The Baxter Theatre Centre kicks off its 2015 programme during January and February with an Afrikaans season showcasing two hugely acclaimed dramas and a comedy, with all three productions featuring all-star casts.

The Baxter Theatre Centre kicks off its 2015 programme with an Afrikaans season showcasing two hugely acclaimed dramas and a comedy during January and February, with all three productions featuring all-star casts.

After a successful run at the Cape Town Fringe Festival, Harold Pinter's ASHES TO ASHES comes to the Alexander Bar and Cafe's Upstairs Theatre.

COMEDY ON A ROLL SPECIAL will be performed at the Alexander Bar and Cafe Upstairs Theatre this January for one night only.

Multi-award-winning Robert Fridjhon will present his new one-man comedy show, WILD, after a long sabbatical in the theatre working with herds of actors.

One-person show KEEP OFF THE GRASS, written by Gabriella Pinto and Kelly-Eve Koopman will take the stage at Alexander Bar and Cafe's Upstairs Theatre.

Artscape's 2015 Shakespeare production at the Maynardville Open-Air Theatre will be the tragedy, OTHELLO, a play still as gripping today as it was when it was written 400 years ago.

Rust Co-Operative's new show, NAT, will make its bow at the Rosebank Theatre this January, the first season on South African stages for the vibrant and provocative theatre company.

Opening on Sunday 1 February, the Cape Town City Ballet's much anticipated annual season at Maynardville Park will feature four performances of the enchanting ballet, LA SYLPHIDE.

Alexander Bar and Cafe welcomes back Micheal Kirch's production of COCK & BULL STORY, performed by Rowan Studti and Dylan Skews, to the Upstairs Theatre following its succesful debut run there last year.

After a successful debut run at the Alexander Bar and Cafe Upstairs Theatre this year, SOMETHING OUTRAGEOUS returns to the Mother City in 2015.

Lebogang Mogashoa will return to the Alexander Bar and Cafe's Upstairs Theatre with his comic storytelling show, WHEN WE WERE NEARLY YOUNG, this January.

THE WAY WE WERE is conjured from the life and music of Barbra Streisand: a rags-to-riches story of Streisand's life in the Bronx, brought to life by Cat Simoni.

The Baxter Theatre Centre kicks off its 2015 programme during January and February with an Afrikaans season showcasing two hugely acclaimed dramas and a comedy, with all three productions featuring all-star casts.

It is the last day of 2014 and this final look at 'six of the best' plays to appear on South African stages finishes up BroadwayWorld's review of the past year's theatre.

The well-known group, The Vengaboys, recently toured South Africa.