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Happy Holidays! The latest wave of standings have been announced as of Monday, November 27th for the 2023 BroadwayWorld South Africa Awards! Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!

KING GEORGE, a new play set in the heart of Cape Town, is a battle for domination between development mogul Shane Wyntock (played by Clyde Berning) and long-time, local strip club owner, George Megalos, ‘the Godfather of Lower Woodstock’ (played by Brent Palmer).

Mzansi Ballet's hit - The QUEEN Show - returns to the Pieter Toerien Theatre at Monte from 13 December.

What did our critic think of EVERY BRILLIANT THING at Theatre On The Bay?

Directed by Nico Scheepers, this charming production takes young audiences on a journey of self-discovery, friendship, and the transformative power of kindness.

The latest wave of standings have been announced as of Monday, November 20th for the 2023 BroadwayWorld South Africa Awards! Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!

LAMTA is celebrating five years of work with their final student production of the year - SPRING AWAKENING.

The Masque and Cape Town Theatre Company joined forces to bring their adaptation of Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd to the stage, aptly titled THE MURDER OF THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD.

Theatre Arts, one of Cape Town's foremost theatres, is taking to the boards to shine the spotlight on the impact of load shedding on the nation with Theatre in the Dark, a brilliant new season of eleven moving productions, from 15 to 25 February 2024.

The iconic Capetonian musical production, THE JIVE CULTURE SHOCK, returns this December for yet another jam-packed season - celebrating the talent of Cape minstrels and Malay choirs at the Baxter Theatre.

Christmas In Cape Town is a home-grown musical, set in South Africa, written and directed by veteran thespian Sheila McCormick, with musical direction by Tersia Harley.

Voting is now open for the 2023 BroadwayWorld South Africa Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.

The music of Queen is timeless.

The curtain will rise on a high-energy production of Legally Blonde the Musical at Artscape on 3 February 2024.

Rosalind Butler's new South African play EXPELLED premieres at the Baxter Theatre and transfers to The Market Theatre in 2024 and bookings are now open!

What did our critic think of CONSTELLATIONS: THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL at Spier Wine Farm?

All new photos have been released from this year’s Janice Honeyman Pantomime, Peter Pan at Joburg Theatre.

'A FAINT PATCH OF LIGHT' is a queering of Athol Fugard’s 'Statements After an Arrest under the Immorality Act' that explores black lesbian struggles in South African townships.

Is there anything more epitomic of the 1990s and early 2000s than the video store? In slightly more recent history, is there anything more epitomic of decay, decline, and dead dreams than the last of the DVD stores of the late 2010s? – dying prolonged, understated deaths: not with a bang but a whi

On 1 November, some of the cast members from the new production of THE SOUND OF MUSIC embarked on a journey to the top of majestic Table Mountain – via cable car of course; save the trekking for Act II of the show.

Get ready for festive season fun with The Masque's new fairy tale Rapunzel - Untangling the Truth.

The popular Mother City festive season music festival, Unity On The Square, returns with an artist line-up of the 'who's who in South African music' this December.

Joburg Ballet gives Johannesburg a magnificent festive season present this summer when the company brings The Nutcracker to the Teatro at Montecasino for 11 performances from 1 to 10 December.

Directly from its success at Toyota US WOORDFEES last weekend in Stellenbosch, playing to standing ovations, and to sold out audiences, Maynardville Open Air Festival is for the first time in its 67th year history touring the production of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM to Pieter Toerien’s Montecasin

MZANSI BALLET will bring THE QUEEN SHOW to Cape Town's Theatre on the Bay from 25 October to 11 November 2023.