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Comedy cabaret variety show THE LATE NIGHT XXXMAS BOYLESQUE SHOW will be coming to the Alexander Bar and Cafe Upstairs Theatre for a limited run during the month of December.

Imagine watching Lewis Carroll's Alice chat to the Caterpillar for an hour.

This festive season, Cape Town City Ballet ends its 80th anniversary celebrations on a high note, with a magical production of the ballet, Cinderella.

Nobody does dance on local stages like the Cape Dance Company (CDC).

Tonight 29 November, well-known singer Brandon October and a host of South Africa's brightest young musical stars are set to light up the Nederburg Picnic Concert stage in Paarl.

Last Sunday, Play Club celebrated its second anniversary with a reading of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, Christopher Sergel's stage adaptation of Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.

The prestigious Cape Town City Ballet Awards 2014 were announced on Saturday 22 November at the Artscape Opera House.

Louis Viljoen's new play, a dark psycho drama entitled THE PERVERT LAURA, opens at The Little Theatre in December.

The Waterfront Theatre School will present their graduating class in a production of the female version of Neil Simon's THE ODD COUPLE.

The second and final showcase that completes Artscape's Spring Drama Season is NDITHUNGILE SELANI written by DV Thom and adapted for the theatre by Thoko Ntshinga.

In SMAARTIES, performance becomes a metaphor for schizophrenia, with everything in Jannes Erasmus's script to in Quintin Wils's design and direction and Jaco Jansen van Rensburg's videography calculated to a embody a single character's psychosis.

Canoc Productions today announced that international songwriter and musician, Kenny G will be performing in South Africa at 8pm tonight, 20 November 2014 at the Coca-Cola Dome, Johannesburg.

Play Club, 'where scripts go to unwind,' will celebrate its second birthday and third year of monthly readings in Cape Town.

Aviwe November's E-QUA-NI-MI-TY will be staged this November as a fundraiser to assist November in raising money for his living expenses when he takes up a prestigiuous scholarship that he has been offered to study choreography in San Francisco.

The University of Cape Town Drama Department will present an adaptation of Paul Herzberg's THE DEAD WAIT, directed by Mdu Kewyama, whose recent production of Mike van Graan's RETURN OF THE ANCESTORS was performed at the Artscaps Theatre Centre as a part of Artscape's tenth anniversary Spring Drama S

MR JOHNSON PRESENTS is the latest solo show from award-winning musician, composer, cabaret star, director and actor, Godfrey Johnson.

As the Festive Season approaches, Cape Town is getting on its glad rags and theatre companies are madly rehearsing shows to entertain young children who will soon be on holiday.

The much loved actor and singer, Hennie Smit, well known as Bertie in Egoli and now Deda in MY BOETIE SE SUSSIE SE OU, is making very good progress in the Wilgers Hospital's intensive care unit.

The Papercut Collective, a theatre-making group consisting of the University of Cape Town Drama Department's 2014 graduating class of Theatre Making students, will present their award-winning production, UHM, at the Artscape Arena this December.

Following their sold-out national tour to Port Elizabeth, East London and Johannesburg, the inimitable Joe Barber boys are back by popular demand, with JOE BARBER VI - LIFE, celebrating the show's 15th birthday at the Baxter Theatre from 3 December to 10 January at 8pm nightly.

Lefra Productions will present a series of shows in repertory at the Roodepoort Theatre this November, showcasing three productions that performed to packed houses at the recent Clover Aardklop National Arts Festival.

MY FOREVER FRIEND, a new play for young children about the importance of friendship and self-esteem, runs at the Baxter this festive season.

The Africa Centre has launched a new partnership with the crowdfunding platform Thundafund to expand the scope and scale of artworks showcased in Infecting the City (ITC) 2015.

Popular comedian and talented actor Rob van Vuuren brings Cape Town the chance to catch his award-winning comedy WHATWHAT for the holiday season.

Although the basic outline of the play remains the same, RETURN OF THE ANCESTORS has been revised in the four months that have passed since its premiere.