SOUTH AFRICA THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 44

Eleven years since being the youngest pianist in Africa to be named a Steinway Artist, Charl du Plessis has had an illustrious career both locally and internationally.

From casting for the Fugard stage to fitting faces into Zoom frames, Neil Coppen has been on a journey with HAMLET since early 2020.

Starting off its Autumn season in a notable way, Cape Town City Ballet presents the double bill of INGOMA / LES SYLPHIDES at Artscape Opera House.

The South African State Theatre has announced that veteran performer Bheki Mkhwane will no longer be part of Bopha's season -starting from 25 May to 13 June 2021- after being booked off sick for four weeks.

The performance will blend rap, West African traditions and classical music, and features  Japanese composer Keiko Fujiie along with Maboudou Sanou, a Burkinabè griot (traditional story-teller and musician).

Adapted for stage by Lara Foot and in collaboration with Handspring Puppet Company, Nobel Prize-winning author JM Coetzee’s LIFE AND TIMES OF MICHAEL K opens for a special preview season next month at Baxter Theatre Centre.

In this, Award Winning,  one woman show Lynita Crofford plays both Englishwoman Emily Hobhouse who campaigned for the rights of women and children during the Anglo Boer War, of 1999-1902 and Tant Alie Badenhorst, a Boer woman held in a British concentration camp.

There's something for everyone with a feast of a line up this Autumn at The Drama Factory.

The South African State Theatre and Ster-Kinekor Theatres have jointly announced a collaboration to screen theatre content in selected cinema complexes operated by SKT across the country, starting from June 2021.

The “champagne” is on ice, the Umqombothi is being brewed and the boeber is being cooked, as Artscape gears up to celebrate the golden jubilee of the building on Wednesday, 19 May.

The Baxter Theatre Centre has announced its most ambitious and exciting production in recent years, the world premiere of Nobel Prize-winning author JM Coetzee's Life and Times of Michael K, adapted for the stage by Lara Foot, in collaboration with the Handspring Puppet Company.

The show features songs you know and love by the artists from the '50s, '60s, '70s and '80s, such as Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Cliff Richard, Cher, the Platters and Creedence Clearwater Revival, as well as the likes of Marilyn Monroe, Roy Orbison, ABBA, Queen and Neil Diamond.

Building on the success of last year's incredibly well-supported online show, Taylor will once again present the Stars of Comedy and Magic live from the College of Magic - giving fans a virtual peek behind the curtains and doors of the organisation's beguiling Victorian Manor before introducing the

Milnerton Playhouse presents its first production at the Playhouse since the Covid 19 pandemic closed all entertainment venues, with a poignant yet humorous play from May 21 to May 29.

Young aspiring Western Cape based jazz musicians and instrumentalists are invited to audition for this year's Artscape Youth to Legends Jazz Festival.

The 11th Shakespeare Schools Festival South Africa (SSFSA) held at Artscape held in April 2021 was a resounding success.

The 8th South African Ballet International Ballet Competition (SAIBC) will be taking place at the Artscape Theatre Centre in Cape Town from 19-24 July 2021, exactly one year after the first SAIBC virtual event took place.

​​​​​​​Theatre enthusiasts will have the rare opportunity to experience a work in progress in the continued development of Neil Coppen's adaptation of William Shakespeare's HAMLET.

Cape Town's College of Magic will proudly host its first limited capacity live spectacular as its popular Imagine! Family show returns to the Artscape Theatre on Saturday 5 June 2021 at 1pm and 4h30pm!

Nik Rabinowitz will return to the Drama Factory for the first time in six hundred and eleventy sixty six days with his imitable brand of lockdown flavoured comedy.

Songs My Lover Forgot To Sing To Me will be presented at THE DRAMA FACTORY, a show featuring internationally renowned performer Godfrey Johnson.

It's Game On with Improguise, Cape Town’s oldest and most favourite improv troupe, are back!  After what has been the longest period of no live performances,  they cannot wait to climb onto the Drama Factory stage and share their improv skills and hilarity with audience members.

Cape Town's only magical arts non-profit organisation, the College of Magic, has announced the appointment of the esteemed Daniel Galloway as its new interim CEO.

Since its inception in 2009, the Ndlovu Youth Choir has become one of the world's most treasured groups.

BroadwayWorld rounds up the top performing arts schools in South Africa.