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Review: TELL ME ON A SUNDAY at the Avalon Auditorium Is a Musical Journey of Self-Discovery
by Jaime Uranovsky - April 25, 2024
Most of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musicals comprise a large cast and elaborate sets. TELL ME ON A SUNDAY is different: this understated, one-woman musical tells the story of Emma, a Brit who journeys to America to find a man and who ends up finding herself along the way....
Review: ROUND OF APPLAUSE – SOUTH AFRICA STILL STANDING at the Baxter Theatre Centre Should Be Required Viewing for All South Africans
by Jaime Uranovsky - April 25, 2024
Just because you saw ROUND OF APPLAUSE in 2023 does not mean that you’re exempted from seeing Round 2.0. On the contrary, the follow-up to Marianne Thamm’s performative journalism is an absolute must – especially for those who attended last year’s show. It’s one of those rare occasions when the sequ...
Review: SHORTS – A FESTIVAL OF POCKET OPERAS at Artscape Arena Offers Bite-Sized Operatic Treats
by Jaime Uranovsky - April 14, 2024
While there are three mini-operas within the SHORTS programme, this reviews centres around two of them: LA VOIX HUMANE and THE IMPRESARIO.
Over the last couple of years, I have been lucky enough to attend various operas staged in Cape Town. They are magnificent: grand and opulent....
Review: OTHELLO at the Baxter Theatre Centre Is a Relevant Retelling of the Classic Tragedy
by Jaime Uranovsky - April 13, 2024
Shakespeare’s OTHELLO, written in the early 1600s, predates traditional notions of decoloniality and, arguably, colonialism itself. Nonetheless, it is a text that, some contend, contains a built-in decolonial perspective or, at the very least, lends itself to be staged through this lens....
Review: SPRING AWAKENING at Theatre On The Bay And Pieter Toerien Montecasino Main Theatre
by Michelle B Lewis - April 09, 2024
At its core, SPRING AWAKENING is a coming-of-age tale that resonates across generations. The play follows a group of teenagers as they navigate the turbulence of adolescence, longing for knowledge about the mysteries of womanhood, the trauma of abuse and the challenges of societal norms. This produc...
Review: MAMMA MIA is an ABBA-solutely fantastic time!
by Faeron Wheeler - April 01, 2024
I am so glad I got to catch MAMMA MIA here in Cape Town. This cast is brilliant - you will have an ABBA-solutely fantastic time, you will want to get up and be the Dancing Queen, and you will certainly be saying 'thank you for the music' by the end of the show....
Review: WRONG FACES and TOMMY AND DOMINICK at the Masque Theatre's One-Act Play Festival Showcase Local Playwrights
by Jaime Uranovsky - March 24, 2024
During my adolescence, the annual one-act play festival held at my high school was the highlight of my academic year. So, whenever I hear that a one-play festival is being staged, I am filled with excitement and nostalgia. For the first time, the Masque Theatre has introduced what will become its an...
Review: THE GOOD DAD/ DIE GOEIE PA Is Riveting, Raw and Redemptive
by Jaime Uranovsky - March 12, 2024
I knew going into THE GOOD DAD that this production was not going to make for easy watching. And it doesn’t. The subject matter is rough and audience members should know that sexual abuse and rape are prominent topics in this piece of theatre. That being said, the piece is superb and should not be m...
Review: SUOR ANGELICA and GIANNI SCHICCHI at Artscape Celebrates Comedy and Tragedy in Puccini's Operas
by Jaime Uranovsky - February 18, 2024
Cape Town Opera presents a Puccini double-bill of operas: SUOR ANGELICA and GIANNI SCHICCHI. Each opera runs for just under an hour, with an interval in between. The two operas are vastly different – SUOR ANGELICA, despite containing comedic moments, is ultimately tragic....
Review: EXPELLED Explores the Impact of Social Media at the Baxter Golden Arrow Studio
by Faeron Wheeler - February 17, 2024
EXPELLED is a brand-new play from Rosalind Butler, and it deals with just how damaging social media can be for all ages. The characters in the play and the story feel incredibly relatable as many of us spend time questioning how much we live our lives through social media....
Past Shows
Henry Rollins
9/30
Whacked: Special Project is thrilled to announce the return of Henry Rollins to SA in 2016. Over the years, Henry has returned several times to ...
Defending The Caveman
6/14 - 6/24/2016
Tim Plewman once again dons the Caveman’s skins and steps onto stage to add to the longest-running and most successful solo comedy in SA theatre ...
Kristóf Baráti is a Hungarian violinist, who is widely regarded as one of the most talented violinists to emerge from Europe in recent years.He began ...
Violinist David Juritz.’s claim to fame was when he busked around the world in 2007 to raise funds for his South African string programme – ...
Ammiel Bushakevitz was born in Jerusalem, but subsequently moved to South Africa and regards this very much as his home. He studied at the University ...
A magical morning with the incredibly talented and internationally acclaimed Kathleen Tagg....
Daughter of composer Malcolm Forsyth, Amanda Forsyth left South Africa at two years of age and began playing the cello at the age of three. ...
Duelling Pianos brings together two of south Africa`s most celebrated pianists – Kathleen, SAMA-nominated classical pianist in New York, and Andre, an award-winning jazz pianist ...
Circles of Support
8/16
Join the ‘Circles of Support’ advocacy and fundraising campaign of the Perinatal Mental Health Project. You will be delighted by a range of performances by ...
In 2013, the Peru & Bala National Tour broke all attendance records in the country for South African Indian comedy. This year, it promises to ...
Celebrations is a programme of familiar opera favourites and some lighter classics, featuring South Africa’s international opera sensation Pretty Yende together with students of the ...
Original Voices
8/6
Hilltop Live, the team behind the One Night in Cape Town events is launching a new dynamic acoustic production in Cape Town – the Rolling ...
Doyen of opera in South Africa, director and producer, singer and academic, Angelo Gabbato will stage a programme tracing the development of operetta from its ...
The 10th Jive Cape Town Funny Festival
5/26 - 6/22/2014
South Africa’s favourite comedy festival returns for a 10th season to the home of Cape comedy, hosted by stage, TV and film star, Shaleen Surtie ...
Cheaper than roses
4/26 - 5/3/2014
Sometimes running away from who we are, brings us closer to who we are. Sometimes the past and the present merge in a way that ...
NIK RABINOWITZ – STAND UP
11/26 - 1/11/2014
Nik Rabinowitz is back with an all-new show that takes the Pistorius out of everything South African, whilst simultaneously giving ourselves and the world a ...
An exceptional duo returns to the CTCS. Virtuoso cellist Jerome Pernoo won 1st Prize by unanimous decision of the jury at the CNSM de Paris ...
CHAMBER MUSIC
10/22
The Footlight Club...
UCT SYMPHONY CONCERT
10/15
Hoole – Overture Brahms – Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45...
A competition in honour of the late Olive Lieberz-Theron. This competition is open to all piano performance students at the SACM who are intending to ...
The sixth edition of this annual competition for ensemble playing, sponsored by the Schock Foundation. This final round will feature ensembles selected from the chamber ...
JOE BARBER AND FRIENDS
9/2 - 9/7/2013
After taking a two-year break Joe Barber, starring Oscar Petersen and David Isaacs, returns for a limited one-week run with a show to end the ...
New works choreographed by third and fourth-year students of the UCT School of Dance offer a unique window onto the creative perspectives of emerging young ...
Following the last eleven years' successes, the piano sections of UCT and Stellenbosch University will present an evening of piano transcriptions....
Programme includes Concerto for Flute and Wind Orchestra by Mike Mower....
WATTMORE IS THERE
7/16
New instrumental music composed by Martin Watt and Adrian More....
THE JIVE CAPE TOWN FUNNY FESTIVAL
6/10 - 7/7/2013
South Africa's top comedy festival returns, using South Africa's top comics together with speciality acts from the UK, Canada and Armenia....
FROM THE BARRE
5/22
The ballet tradition of extending classwork exercises into full blown concert works such as Antony Tudor's Etudes is echoed in this lecture demonstration. The interconnection ...
Opera Kaleidoscope
5/3 - 5/4/2013
A programme of complete acts from four of Verdi's operatic works to commemorate his 200th birthday. Kamal Khan, Director of the UCT Opera School, will ...
J. S. Bach – Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 H. F. Biber – Battalia a 10 A. Corelli – Concerto grosso, Op. 6 No. 3...
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Tell Me On A Sunday
Avalon Auditorium | Homecoming Centre (formerly The Studio at The Fugard Theatre) (4/24 - 4/28)
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MAMMA MIA!
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Spring Awakening
Pieter Toeriens Montecasino Theatre & Studiio (3/8 - 5/5)
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