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Sunday, June 8, 2025

Choreographer's genius evident in hit musical Evita

There?s hardly a musical or TV show which Larry Fuller?s choreographic genius hasn?t touched.

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Watch Video'Evita' set to grace South African stages

The musical gives audiences an insight into Eva?s brief but extraordinary life.

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Popular musical 'Evita' promises to be a coup

It stages at the Artscape Theatre from December 1 to January 7.

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Wizard of Oz Musical Fantasy: A colourful, fun family romp

This musical version unfolds in a merry fashion. Conductor Alastair Cockburn, baton in hand, sets the Philharmonic Orchestra off at a cracking pace

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The Play That Goes Wrong review: Wrong turns make for right night out

The play is an excellent example of how top-notch directing, acting, lighting, costuming, music and sets can keep an audience laughing for two hours.

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Funny Girl: A Broadway legend that will delight all

Musicals based on real-life characters always make interesting theatre. When combined with star-quality performers, the show becomes a must-see.

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Hamlet production shows Shakespeare still has X-factor

Shakespeare?s superlative craftsmanship is laid bare to hear, to learn and understand. An excellent model for pupils for whom Hamlet is a setwork.

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Review: A mother's crazy love

The Mother begins with Nicolas van Reenen’s sound replicating blood pulsing through veins.

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Sheila Chisholm|Published

Review: A mother's crazy love

The Mother begins with Nicolas van Reenen’s sound replicating blood pulsing through veins.

Cape Times Entertainment
Sheila Chisholm|Published

New 'Romeo and Juliet' hits right notes

WHEN Shakespeare’s 1595 tragic Romeo and Juliet and Sergei Prokofiev’s Op 64 masterpiece were put together, ideal conditions were spawned to create a ballet gem.

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Reworked Romeo and Juliet dazzles

SHAKESPEARE'S Romeo and Juliet remains the yardstick by which families should gauge their teenager's first love.

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Theatre of the Absurd at Milnerton Playhouse

MILNERTON Players are complimented on choosing award winning director Mari Mocke to direct Christiaan Johan Barnard’s Pa Maak Vir My ‘n Vlieër Pa, for the first Afrikaans play presented by them. M

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Jazzart, Unmute Dance Company 'Injabulo' review

INJABULO - meaning happiness - is a new work by Jazzart’s artistic director Sifiso Kweyama. Choreographed around Andile Vellem, Nkosinathi Sangweni, Tracey September and Yaseen Manuel, Injabulo deal

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A popular, radiant ‘Sleeping Beauty’

PYOTR Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s scores for his three 19th century ballets Swan Lake (Le lac des Cygnes) The Sleeping Beauty (La Belle au Bois Dormant) and The Nutcracker (Casse Noisette) are, ar

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Moore to guest in ‘Beauty’ ballet

CRITICAL acclaim is too often what artists aim for when showcasing their particular discipline to the public. Too often forgetting what a strong influence their performance could have on a small lad or lass sitting

Cape Times Entertainment
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Radio personality celebrates 40 years on air

RUBIES, which are thought to possess an eternal inner flame, are precious stones used to celebrate a 40th anniversary. A fitting stone for Rodney Trudgeon.

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Clowns create a unique show

It’s a safe bet to bet older South African circus lovers won’t remember the name Eric Hoyland, but will remember his stage name Tickey - the pint size clown who, for years, reigned supreme as Boswell Circus

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Colourful, lively and fun

MY FAIR LADY. A classic musical. Music Frederick Loewe. Lyrics Alan Jay Lerner. Direction/Choreography Kyla Thorburn. Assistant Director Roche Haupt Buckle. Costumes/Sets Dicky Longhurst. Sound Li

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AfriCan Children’s fantasy jungle

ACCEPTED is there are people blessed with greater capacity to learn life’s skills than others, there isn’t such a thing as “having no brains. ” This phrase is often disparagingly used by olde

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Jazzart Dance strides forward

AS WITH most companies existing for 42 years, Jazzart Dance Theatre has been through ups and downs. Under Alfred Hinkel’s leadership the group reached many a high. Unfortunately since his untimely departure from the

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Top drawer pianist at debut show

It’s in this peaceful community that Megan-Geoffrey Prins was born 26 years ago. He’s the young pianist who is giving a recital at the Nederburg Debut Concert on 26 June at 5pm.

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‘Coppelia’ ends on a high note

ON MAY 25 the comedy ballet Coppelia, or to give its full title Coppelia, Ou La Fille Aux Yeux D’Email, celebrated its 136th anniversary. In 1870 that’s when it premiered at the Theatre Imperi

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'Fallen Angels': flamboyant Coward fare

BEST friends Julia Sterroll (Tamika Sewnarain) and Jane Banbury (Jana Botha) share their most intimate secrets. That’s how Jane knows she and Julia had a love affair - at different times of course - with the same das

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Dramatic ‘Shades of Love’

RIVETTING is the adjective to describe Ashley Killar’s The Miraculous Mandarin. As seen on Artscape’s opera stage, The Miraculous Mandarin is an intellectual choreographic marriage between Kil

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'Nobody's Fool' lifts jaded spirits

NOBODY’s Fool, a sequel to Simon Williams’s Nobody’s Perfect, continues stuttering statistician Lenny Loftus’s deception as romantic novelist Myrtle Banbury. It all began, when Len

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