SOUTH AFRICA THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 133

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.

SILENT VOICE is something else.

Jazzart Dance Theatre invites suitable qualified and skilled practitioners to submit Expressions of Interest for the position of Artistic Director to lead and develop the company's on-going contribution to dance training, performance and creative excellence.

It is rare to find a piece as beautifully shaped for a specific age group as Magnet Theatre's enchanting TREE / BOOM / UMTHI.

Cape Town Opera will present a new production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's comic masterpiece of impetuous love, THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO (LE NOZZE DI FIGARO) in the Opera House at Artscape from today 18 to 26 October 2014.

What better way to celebrate Halloween than by attending the award-winning THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW at the Fugard Theatre in Cape Town on Friday 31 October 2014?

CHOMI and UNDONE are the next two plays coming up in Artscape's tenth anniversary Spring Drama Season.

Watch, listen and draw as Henrietta Moraes, the notorious muse to Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and later Maggi Hambling, relates her life story in the award-winning one-woman play STILL LIFE: AN AUDIENCE WITH HENRIETTA MORAES.

The Baxter Dance Festival celebrates its tenth anniversary this year.

Jazzart Dance Theatre will showcase 'Melting Truth' in the Baxter Dance Festival on 15 and 16 October at the Baxter Theatre.

Every now and then, a piece of theatre comes along that could be described as a kind of 'gateway drug': a show that people will remember being incredibly entertaining and that might make them think that this business of going to the theatre is worth all the fuss.

Seasoned actor Paul Luckhoff is South Africa's new Oom Schalk Lourens, Herman Charles Bosman's iconic narrator of his immortal stories of the Marico district.

Top South African comedian Nik Rabinowitz returns to the Fugard Theatre with WHAT THE EFF?, his brand new show that runs over the festive season.

This year's series of chamber music concerts presented at Nederburg in Paarl concludes on Sunday 2 November with a performance by the award-winning Russian pianist, Andrey Pisarev.

Eric Abraham and the Fugard Theatre are proud to announce the world premiere of David Kramer's new musical ORPHEUS IN AFRICA at the Fugard Theatre in January 2015.

The well-known actor and singer, Hennie Smit, who is currently playing the role of Dêda in Lefra Productions's MY BOETIE SE SUSSIE SE OU, was admitted to hospital six weeks ago for double pneumonia.

THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID, the cheeky musical comedy revue ripped from your newsfeed, will open for a run at the Galloway Theatre this October.

The premiere of Rafiek Mammon's new play, THE GARAGE SALE is marketed as a sardonic exploration of the darker, yet funnier, side of Cape Town suburbia, an explicitly edgy play dealing with the effects of rape.

Gorgeous Capetonian actress Lynita Crofford will perform in VIOLET ONLINE, a comedy based on a series of well-known blog posts by an anonymous, over 40, mother, ex-wife and grammar fiend, that will be staged at the Alexander Upstars Theatre this October.

UJ Arts & Culture's REVOLUTION MMXIV programme comes to a colourful culmination in THATSOQUEER: a three-week festival of 'genderquerying the arts.

The Imbewu Trust announced the winners of the 2014 SCrIBE Scriptwriting Competition at an awards ceremony on Saturdaynight.

Lefra Productions is bringing six of its top productions of this year to the Clover Aardklop National Arts Festival.

A brand new children's ballet, THUMBELINA, based on the enchanting fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, opens on Friday 24 October at Artscape in Cape Town.

The European Super Group, The Vengaboys, will be visiting South Africa in December for four shows only through the country.