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

Afrikaans music superstar, Juanita du Plessis, who just released a double country album, NASHVILLE, was one of the top attractions at this year's COUNTRY LEGENDS AND FRIENDS concert, which took place at Carnival City's Big Top Arena last Saturday.

To support the relevance of the African perspective, Badilisha Poetry X-Change has now made the poetic voices of Africa accessible via smart and feature phones on the Badilisha Poetry website.

As a play text, WOUNDS TO THE FACE is perhaps not as brutal an onslaught on audience reception as some of Howard Barker's other plays, but this production by the University of Cape Town's Drama Department certainly does reveal how challenging the piece is to realise as theatre, especially for young

Grammy award-winning violinist, producer and humanitarian Miri Ben-Ari has released a statement in response to the announcement that the 14th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates in South Africa has been cancelled.

The long-awaited return of Lefra Productions' COUNTRY LEGENDS AND FRIENDS to Carnival City's Big Top Arena has been confirmed for Saturday, October 4, 2014 at 20:00 and brings together an unrivalled gathering of the legends of South African country music and a new generation of country singers in on

Junkets Publisher is pleased to announce the publication of the twenty-eighth title in their Playscript Series, Duncan Buwalda's HINTERLAND.

Play Club, Cape Town's Book Club for Theatre Lovers, will host the second annual Halloween edition with a reading of Noel Coward's 'unworldly comedy', BLITHE SPIRIT.

Straight from its success at the 2014 Edinburgh Assembly Fringe Festival, Aubrey Sekhabi's high-octane, gripping thriller SILENT VOICE, featuring a stellar cast, will have audiences riveted to their seats at the Baxter Golden Arrow Studio this October.

Junkets is committed to publishing two volumes of AFRICAN FOLKTALES ONSTAGE!: PLAYS FOR PRE-TEENS.

The University of Cape Town's Drama Department will present a production of Howard Barker's WOUNDS TO THE FACE, directed by Geoffrey Hyland, who recently directed a highly acclaimed production of the same playwright's SLOWLY.

Grammy award-winning violinist, producer and humanitarian Miri Ben-Ari will headline a special invite only concert opening the 14th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates at Cape Town City Hall on October 13th.

The Cape Town Fringe is in full swing and has passed the halfway mark, with audiences enjoying the vibe at the Cape Town City Hall and at satellite venues like the Alexander Bar, Cafe and Theatre over the past week.

The third SCrIBE Scriptwriting Competition has given five local playwrights a chance to develop their work, with three grand prizes to be won when their plays are staged at the Cape Town Fringe Festival this week.

There is a great deal going on in the mind-scape that is PIET SE OPTELGOED.

The third SCrIBE Scriptwriting Competition has given five local playwrights a chance to develop their work, with three grand prizes to be won when their plays are staged at the Cape Town Fringe Festival this week.

Hennie Smit, the very popular South African actor and singer who is best known for playing the role of Bertie in EGOLI and who was recently playing the role of Deda in the Lefra Productions farce MY BOETIE SE SUSSIE SE OU, was admitted to hospital two weeks ago with double pneumonia, asthma and a fr

Dirty Words, the deliciously clever and delightfully naughty smash hit, runs at Kalk Bay Theatre from 7 to 19 October.

After a sensational season at the Baxter Main Theatre earlier this month, top comedian Marc Lottering will be bringing his hit show THIS IS CAPTAIN LOTTERING SPEAKING back to the Mother City for consecutive runs at two of Cape Town's most iconic performance venues, Theatre on the Bay in Camps Bay an

THE GARAGE SALE, part of Artscape's annual Spring Drama Season, opens on 2 October for a limited run at the Artscape Arena Theatre.

DANCERS LOVE DOGS takes place this year on Saturday 4 October at 8pm at the Artscape Opera House, presented by Brigitte Reeve-Taylor and performed by top dancers and entertainers volunteering their time and talent to raise funds for animal sterilisation in the Western Cape.

Multicultural theatre, music, dance and poetry productions are set to engage audiences in a celebration of South Africa's rich heritage at the Artscape Theatre.

…MISKIEN was the debut production of The Pink Couch, the company founded by Tara Notcutt, Albert Pretorius, Gideon Lombard and Mat Lewis.

If you looked forward to 'Squad Cars' as the height of the week's entertainment; knew what the next best thing to a Lexington was; reckoned that 'rugby, braaivleis, sunny skies and Chevrolet' should be the national anthem; smaaked the cigarette commercials before the film more than the film itself;

OLD KIT BAG is a small show with a big heart, paying tribute to the power that music has to bring people together in times of trouble.