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Two emerging Cape Town-based independent theatre companies, Horses' Heads Productions and Fruitzalad Productions, have collaborated to produce a new original theatre production, THE SWELL.

There is a sense of complacency that infiltrates almost every aspect of STEALING THE SHOW: BETTE MIDLER.

CURL UP AND DYE emerges as a still relevant piece of theatre some 25 years after its original premiere.

Hot on the heels of its critically acclaimed production of John Neumeier ballets, SPRING & FALL, plus the world premiere of a brand new children's ballet, THUMBELINA, the Cape Town City Ballet continues its winning streak with GALA OCCASION, another glittering production celebrating the company's 80

The Cape Dance Company (CDC) presents BLUE, celebrating its 20th Anniversary season at the Artscape Theatre from 27 November.

THE LAST MOUSTACHE certainly has an intriguing premise and indulges in some fun meta-theatricality as Tim Plewman does his best to sell the audience on the material.

Watching a new production by the Rust Co-operative, the two-year old theatre company co-founded by Philip Rademeyer and Penny Youngleson, comes with the knowledge that the audience will be presented with a piece of theatre that, one the one hand, aims to offer a powerful emotional experience and, on

A South African reworking of COCK & BULL STORY, the play originally written, directed and performed by Richard Zajdlic and Richard Crowe in 1985, will open at the Galloway Theatre in Cape Town on 11 November 2014.

Wordsmith's Theatre Factory and ABSA KKNK, with the support of the LW Hiemstra Trust will stage RONDOMSKRIK at the Bacter Theatre this November.

Tim Plewman will soon be back in Cape Town with THE LAST MOUSTACHE, an explosively funny, emotional roller-coaster ride that will leave you breathless.

Singing sensation Lucy Tops brings her golden voice to Kalk Bay Theatre in a tribute to the one of the greatest singers of our time.

CURL UP AND DYE, a satirical comedy by University of Ccape Town alumni Sue Pam-Grant, will return to Cape Town stages when the play opens at the Rosebank Theatre on 6 November in a production directed by Christopher Weare.

Mike van Graan's RETURN OF THE ANCESTORS, the penultimate production in Artscape's 2014 Spring Drama Season, is a hard-hitting satire that genuflects to the South African classic WOZA ALBERT!, in which Mbongeni Ngema, Percy Mtwa and Barney Simon crafted a tale in which Jesus returns to South Africa

After a hugely successful run at the South African State Theatre earlier on in the year, SMAARTIES has been invited to play at various other theatres in South Africa, including theatres in Rustenburg, Pretoria, Centurion and Johannesburg.

RSG and Lefra Productions will stage their second Oppiwater Arts Festival on the MSC Opera in March 2015.

Dario Fo and Franca Rame's 1983 comedy THE OPEN COUPLE opens at Alexander Bar's Upstairs Theatre this November following its excellently received run at Nicholas Ellenbogen's intimate Rosebank Theatre in May as a double-bill alongside DIE BUFFEL, an Afrikaans adaptation of Anton Chekhov's THE BEAR.

Presented by the award-winning Rust Co-Operative, ASHES explores the life of a young man through the eyes of six characters, played by two actors, each somehow related to the man.

After a sell out season in May, LAST ROUNDS is back at the Alexander Bar and Cafe to bring audiences its biting look at love, whiskey, and good music.

Cape Town Opera in collaboration with the UCT Opera School will present Argento's POSTCARD FROM MOROCCO.

Seats have been snapped up for Cape Town City Ballet's matinee performances of Thumbelina.

On Saturday 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.

Academy of Musical Theatre Cape Town Events is joining Shimmy Beach Club in their upcoming ALL HALLOWS EVE with our original ALONG CAME A SPIDER, a brand new interactive murder mystery premiering on Friday 31 October 2014 in the Shimmy Beach Club Restaurant, V&A Harbour.

Singing sensation Lucy Tops brings her golden voice to Kalk Bay Theatre in a tribute to the one of the greatest singers of our time.

The global theatre phenomenon, WAR HORSE will be making its South African premiere later this year, beginning with a season at The Teatro at Montecasino in Johannesburg in October before transferring to the Artscape Opera House in Cape Town in December.

LOVE & PROZAC, the smash-hit dirty love comedy, returns to Cape Town for a run at the Kalk Bay Theatre.