Award winning show celebrates life of a great dancer
Local choreographer Michelle Reid stages her first production for Cape Town City Ballet named Sheeple
For the first time in its history, the John Christie Award for most promising young singer of the year has gone to a non-British artist, South African soprano Noluvuyiso Mpofu.
Choreographer/dancer/teacher Tercia Amsterdam has proved that dreams can come true with a combination of vision and perseverance: on graduating from the UCT School of Dance some 14 years ago, she aspired to have her own dance company, and despite man
Its richly layered content, the blend of emotional intensity with near-clinical chronicling of mental illness.
Like Les Misérables and Phantom of the Opera, Tiger Bay the Musical is a spectacular work that affords its vocalists ample scope to show their mettle.
This play charts the evolution of a universal love story: boy meets girl; edgy relationship mellows into abiding love; commitment follows.
Molière?s heady amalgam of farce, social satire and psycho drama receives vivid interpretation in this new production of the 17th century masterpiece.
The year of the murder is 1793, the play is staged in 1808, and the issues raised in the course of its performance are uncomfortably relevant in the South Africa of 2017.
However one approaches it, Verdi’s Rigoletto is a dark opera, and director Marthinus Basson’s current production for Cape Town Opera does nothing to minimise the inherent nastiness of its themes – most of which resonate with contemporary South Africa
Go watch this entertaining and wryly intelligent play that explores male/female relationships.
An audacious work of art
Top cast bring to life racial tensions still relevant today
Beguiling Joseph is not to be missed
Cast do justice to De Wet’s work
When black humour and high intelligence come together in a sharp script, the result is absorbing entertainment. Each piece is only 15 minutes long, so economy is of the essence.
Vortex, an impersonal maelstrom sucking the helpless to destruction: the title of Noel Coward’s début novel is well chosen for a tale of toxic relationships and human frailty.
Some masterpieces are diminished by reworking, while others are enriched in the process. Veronica Paeper’s Spartacus belongs to the latter category.
Tim Plewman, aka the timeless troglodyte, attacks his updated material with a gusto as he defends the caveman with Rob Becker’s scintillating script.
Cat Simoni has done it again: following her stellar tributes to Barbra Streisand and Francoise Hardy, she now takes on Ella Jane Fitzgerald in a vocal celebration.
This chronicle of a man obsessed with rediscovering his lost love through assignations with sex workers maintains an unexpectedly low emotional temperature. . .
Billed as a cabaret comedy, Followspot’s ‘Big Girls’ guarantees an evening of mildly risqué fun, excellent singing and chuckles a-plenty. . .
In addition to comic flair and fluent delivery, raconteur Lebogang Mogashoa has enviable equanimity which remains unruffled in the face of unwelcome audience participation. . .
It’s been nearly two decades since the dark whimsy of Little Shop of Horrors was staged in SA. And Steven Stead’s current production doesn’t disappoint.
Angelo Gobbato’s elegant staging of this Verdi master-piece will please purists who dislike the current tendency to update or modernise classic works. . .
