SOUTH AFRICA THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 88

There's no business like hair business! Performer and playwright Rudy Bessit aims to do away with negative stereotypes associated with coloured people in his solo show, A HAIR THINGY.

With the festive season drawing near, Cape Town funnyman Alan Committie is ready to bring audiences in the Mother City another hilarious look at the world around us.

MOEDERTAAL is the latest in a welcome series of Afrikaans theatre productions in The Fugard Theatre's annual line-up, with Naskrif Produksies presenting this poetic meditation on life, love and loss at the popular venue in the Mother City through the beginning of December.

Standing O Immersive Experiences will proudly present IMMORTAL, the first-ever immersive theatre production of its kind in South Africa, at the Castle of Good Hope in Cape Town over the upcoming holiday season.

The 2017 awards honor productions which opened between October 1, 2016 and September 30, 2017.

Brandon Phillips is a highly regarded and versatile conductor, sought after for symphony concerts by all South African orchestras, as well as for ballet, crossover and pop concerts, and now opera.

After a sold-out six week season at the Fugard Theatre, the hit musical KING KONG returns by overwhelming public demand for the summer season.

The Fugard Theatre's timeless musical production of WEST SIDE STORY returns to the Artscape Opera House in 2018 following two tremendously successful seasons in Cape Town and Johannesburg.

The Mother City audiences are in for a treat this festive season as Cape Town-born jazz musician, Jonathan Rubain, is back with his latest musical show, Cape Jazz Is Lekke!

Standard Bank has renewed their sponsorship of the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, one of the country's longest and highest profile sponsorship investments, for a further three years.

PEN South Africa and the Institute for Creative Arts will commemorate PEN's Day of the Imprisoned Writer on 15 November 2017.

Soprano Cecilia Rangwanasha, who recently won second place, and the audience prize at the Philip Schock Singing Competition, will perform in Cape Town Opera's SPARKLING YOUNG STARS event at the Oude Libertas Amphitheatre this December.

A young cast of outstanding singers from Cape Town Opera and the University of Cape Town Opera School will usher in summer with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's most joyful and uplifting masterpiece, THE MAGIC FLUTE.

Internationally acclaimed and award-winning South African based guitarist James Grace will appear at Theatre on the Bay for the first time this November.

Artscape Theatre Centre is gearing to celebrate the achievements of artists who underwent various accredited training courses through the Artscape Resource Centre, at a certification ceremony to be held on the 10th November 2017 at 13:00.

Launched in 1994 as a co-creation between Ian von Memerty and Bryan Schimmel, A HANDFUL OF KEYS has played to more than 420 000 people in over 1450 performances over the last 23 years.

The 2017 awards honor productions which opened between October 1, 2016 and September 30, 2017.

Port Elizabeth - In medieval times, a jester was employed by a nobleman or monarch to entertain him and his guests.

Two-time Emmy-nominated and Comics' Choice Award winner, Loyiso Gola, is one of South Africa's most loved comedians for a reason - and Capetonians will get to experience this comedy genius in person next month.

South Africa's premier Integrated Arts Platform will present a display of collaborative artistic works by artists with mixed-abilities (With and without disabilities) and from mixed genres (Music, Dance, Drama, Visual Art, etc.

The all South African production of the West End smash hit comedy SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE has been extended owing to overwhelming demand to 25 November at the Fugard Theatre.

From the company that brought you international hit tribute shows such as The Greatest Love of All - The Whitney Houston Show, The Michael Jackson HIStory Show and Queen: It's A Kinda Magic, comes a brand new live show that is set to rock you all the way back to the 1960s.

Highly acclaimed, The Champion is an award-winning production that tells the story of a young man who grapples with the legacy of an absent father and a mother who is a grass widow.

Mae Sithole has graced stages from the Grahamstown National Arts Festival, Dakar - Senegal, HIFA (Zimbabwe) to Nice - France, and her home country Zimbabwe.

In a dystopian South Africa, even the superheroes are dysfunctional.