SOUTH AFRICA THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 148

The time has come for the grateful and happy announcement that the annual Clanwilliam Arts Project and Lantern Festival in conjunction with the University of Cape Town will be going ahead as planned in 2013 through financial assistance from Fairheads Benefit Services, Rooibos Limited and the Milagro

The Fugard Theatre is proud, once more, to play host and hub to this year's Open Book Festival.

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Lefra Productions in bringing a brand new stage production of LIEWE HEKSIE to Aardklop.

The Fugard Theatre's recent announcement that their production of Richard O'Brien's THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW would extend to the end of October has resulted in a further massive demand for tickets and the Fugard has now extended the production, for one final time, through 12 January 2014 to run through

The young internationally acclaimed South African soprano, Pretty Yende captivated opera lovers the world over when she made her spectacular recital debuts at the Teatro Alla Scala in Rome, the Metropolitan Opera in New York and the Wigmore Hall in London.

TIN BUCKET DRUM is undoubtedly a one of the highlights of the current theatre season in South Africa because everyone involved in bringing the show to the stage, from concept through to performance, has honoured what lies at the core of all theatrical endeavours: the act of storytelling.

The critically acclaimed play THE PARROT WOMAN written by Charles J.

Junkets Publisher is a small independent not-for-profit publisher specialising in new Southern African plays in The Playscript Series (for which Junkets won the 2009 Arts & Culture Trust Excellence Award) and The Collected Series, which are anthologies of Southern African plays.

Jazzart Dance Theatre, in association with Artscape, presents the evocative Waiting For Rain at Artscape Theatre from 6 to 15 September.

The classic Tennessee Williams drama THE MILK TRAIN DOESN'T STOP HERE ANYMORE comes to Artscape this October directly from the 8th Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theatre Festival in the USA.

Below My Feet is an exciting fusion of different dance styles, music and multi media.

On the anniversary of anti-apartheid activist Amy Biehl's passing, Thembi Mtshali-Jones will be performing her award winning one woman play MOTHER TO MOTHER at the Artscape Theatre today, 25 August 2013.

The Fugard Theatre is proud, once more, to play host and hub to this year's Open Book Festival.

UCT Drama Department presents KNOW VOID, six physical expressions of freedom, choreographed and performed by the UCT third-year theatre-makers and performers.

Introdans, the internationally re-knowned Arnhem-based modern dance company, is bringing SUPERSTARS to the Baxter Theatre from 10 to 14 September 2013.

Popular folk-singer and songwriter, Suzanne Vega, best known for her mega hit, 'My name is Luka', will perform one concert only at the Teatro at Montecasino on Sunday, 3 November 2013, commencing at 6pm.

The production premiered at the Kalk Bay Theatre in 2012 - read the BroadwayWorld South Africa review of the play here - and was subsequently nominated for a prestigious Fleur du Cap Award earlier this year for Best New South African Script.

The new and captivating production of CIRQUE DE LA SYMPHONIE opens at the Teatro at Montecasino, Johannesburg for two shows only tonight, 17 August 2013 at 8pm and Sunday, 18 August 2013 at 14h00.

When government ministers shuffle faster than a deck of cards at a swingers party, judges are redeployed as car guards and convicted criminals lead Justice towards the boudoir using the secrecy bill as a condom, the only way to describe the general mood in SA's halls of power is…MASS HYSTERIA.

This evening, 16th August, the Book Lounge is happy to have Sannie Fox in the Basement getting our feet tapping.

?Artscape turns the spotlight on learner development with two school festivals, two stage productions of set works and a high school quiz.

Multi-award winning South African playwright Neil Coppen's TIN BUCKET DRUM, produced by the Imbewu Trust, finally comes to Cape Town after taking the world by storm.

When government ministers shuffle faster than a deck of cards at a swingers party, judges are redeployed as car guards and convicted criminals lead Justice towards the boudoir using the secrecy bill as a condom, the only way to describe the general mood in SA's halls of power is…MASS HYSTERIA.

Fresh from rave reviews and a sell out season at the recent Grahamstown National Arts Festival and Baxter Theatre earlier this year, Siv Ngesi is heading back to the Baxter by popular demand with his hit one man comedy show, RACE CARD, based on Simon Kilpatrick's bestselling book THE RACIST'S GUIDE