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Community: World Food Day, October, 16, 2024 with the Do More Foundation
Stage: Award-winning Magnet Theatre presents mAnJE ! MaNJe (an epic)
Review: Isidlamlilo/The Fire Eater is beautiful theatre of healing, restoration and hope
Insight: Speel-speel, wistful exhibition of toys and children’s games at Toyota Stellenbosch Woordfees 2024
Review: Thank you for your Service, brilliant script and physically charged performances
Stage: Cape Town Opera presenting David Kramer’s new musical Orpheus McAdoo
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Festivals: Play is the theme of Toyota Stellenbosch Woordfees 2024
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Business: Pranary hosting Elevate Your Enterprise Summit 2024 through marketing, technology and investments
Review: Julie-Anne McDowell glows as a feisty, spunky and brave My Name is Lucy Barton
Review: Smokie South Africa Tour 2024 delivers with all the hits, thrilling the audience
Stage: Celebrity Skin, A Sensational Dance, Theatre and Dining Experience in Cape Town
Opera: Cape Town Opera presents Horizons at 2024 Toyota Stellenbosch Woordfees on September 28
Stage: Fresh from European tour, SA comedian Dalin Oliver is ready to make SA laugh
Music: Renowned saxophonist Linda Sikhakhane launches his new album Iladi with two Cape Town concerts
Review: Legendary at Kalk Bay Theatre, high energy and hugely entertaining immersive show
Creativity: The Ukukhanya Arts Project, illuminating immunology through the power of art
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Dance: Food Lover’s Market Celebrates 20 Years of Excellence with Debbie Turner
Review: Metamorphoses in Cape Town is stirringly beautiful epic theatre, an exquisite production
Community: Outside the Bowl Africa Launches Million Meals in 5 Days to to Combat Child Hunger
Community: Cape Minstrels troupe Baruch Entertainers, hosting new Theme Song launch event at Plug Studios in Cape Town
Interview: Staging My Name is Lucy Barton in South Africa
Review: Trial and Error is a stylish courtroom drama and psychological thriller
Insight: Exhilarating Dalinda, staged by Opera UCT, a triumph
Review: Festive Fever, dazzling entertaining dance showcase
Review: Breathing in mold and decay in Nelisiwe Xaba’s vRot at LAF
Stage: Wela Kapela cabarets at Drama Factory, Sep 2024
Stage: Jive Culture returns for a fifth season, September 2024
Music: SA singer Nina Stamper teams up with Joe Nina for Afro-Soul single, Kancane
Review: Exhilarating outside inside Live Art Weekend Art As Resilience
In the Limelight: Kalk Bay Theatre in Legendary mode, gearing up for Unthinkable for the festive season
Performance: ICA’s 2024 Live Art Festival ushers in Spring to Cape Town
Review: The excellent Glimmer by Magnet Theatre takes a deep dive into the world of social media
Interview: Jeremy Silver talks about staging Dalinda, Donizetti’s “lost opera” in Cape Town
In the Limelight: The Waterfront Theatre School, Cape Town in festive fever focus
Interview: Darkroom Contemporary Dance Theatre’s autoplay, transforming the stage into a playground of possibilities
Review: Murder on the Nile in Cape Town, holds attention from start to finish
Stage: World premiere staging of Donizetti’s lost opera to be performed in Cape Town
Books: Open Book Festival Unveils Programme for 2024 Edition
Magic: Young magicians dazzle at The College of Magic’s Magicana Junior Magic Championships
Interview: Live Art Weekend’s Art as Resilience, breaking the bubble of isolation, sharing burdens of moving forward
Interview: Staging Trial and Error, the play by Emma Amber
Review: The Agents, brilliant satirical comedy, cautionary tale to chart our own mandates
Stage: Festive Fever – Holiday on the Dance Floor by The Waterfront Theatre School
Review: Streetcar Named Desire in Cape Town, beautiful and stirring, excellent production of a brilliant play
Stage: Trial and Error, new courtroom drama premieres in Cape Town
Interview: Dressing Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Nile at the Masque in Cape Town
Review: Not in my backyard, rupture of the South African Dream in Neighbourhood
Concert news: Smokie in South Africa, September 18-22, 2024
Stage: Festival hit The Agents is Pick of The Fringe, August 2024 in the Cape
Stage: Darkroom Contemporary Dance Theatre presents new full-length work autoplay in Cape Town, September 2024
Review: The fabulous NYO Jazz from Carnegie Hall dazzles South Africa
Performance: Step into a world of music with Spier’s The Routes Of Sound directed by Brett Bailey
Review: Beautiful Ver in Die Wêreld Kittie glows in The Blik
Live Art: Working Title Live Art Weekend at Masambe, Art as Resilience, August 2024
Festival: The Fringe Fireside Chats Festival for self-publishing know how
Stage: Innovative and exciting GLIMMER, premiers at Magnet Theatre August 2024
Jazz: Renowned jazz trumpeter Feya Faku homecoming concerts Cape Town 2024
In the Limelight: South African actress Thembi Mtshali Jones wins prestigious Simon Mabhunu Sabela Award
Stage: LAMTA stages Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire
Review: The 2024 Ugly Noo Noo, magical play, retaining its subversive thrust, speaking to us now in this fractured world
Community: Volunteers give their 67 Mandela Day minutes to Early Childhood Development (ECD) centres in South Africa
Stage: It’s NOT That Glamorous! A new original jukebox musical opens in Cape Town
In the Limelight: Entrepreneurial innovator, Darren Barnes, CEO of Perfect Solutions
Festival news: Rands Holidae Festival, celebration of music, culture, adventure
Review: Heathers The Musical, Cape Town 2024, exhilarating, exceptional production
Review: Immersion in Live Art Weekend, Art Must Be
Stage: UHAMBO (The Traveling), Buhle T Stefane’s personal journey of confronting his past and finding solace in art
Artcentric: Solo Studios 2024, a vibrant mix of art, culture, and adventure
Review: Rocking the Bar is a gem, a bonsai musical with an elegiac narrative
Review: Pieces of Me, gripping performance, beautiful theatre, imbued with empathy and pathos
Interview: How very? Staging Heathers the Musical in Cape Town
Interview: Activating Live Art with dynamic Live Art Weekend
Live music: NYO Jazz, Carnegie Hall’s National Youth Jazz Orchestra, South Africa tour 2024
Review: Witness for the Prosecution is sheer escapism and entertainment, a wonderful diversion from winter in Cape Town
Live art: Working Title Live Art Weekend at Masambe, ART MUST BE… July 2024
Music news: Berry, releases Afrikaans single 10 000 Redes and performing Berry Rocks, July 13 2024
Review: Figure of 8 Maze of the Mind is brilliant dance theatre
Stage: Agatha Christie classic Murder on the Nile at The Masque, 2024
Community: Do More Foundation Mandela Day of Play 2024
Review: Bravo to the wonderful 25th Jive Cape Town Funny Festival
Interview: Dynamic Kutloano Headbush from Johannesburg making a mark in LA
Community: Outside the Bowl Africa & Samaritans Feet SA, Food for Soles Mandela Drive
Insight: Invigorating to be at FynArts 2024 and looking to FynArts 2025
Stage: Bo Petersen returns to the stage in Pieces of Me, Baxter Studio
Stage: New stand-up show, Look Who’s Joking with Wayne McKay at the Wave, Cape Town, July 2024
Stage: Cape Ballet Africa ignites the Baxter stage with inaugural season SALT, September 2024
Review: The heritage Windsor Hotel in Hermanus is charming and welcoming
Review: The Dumb Waiter, gripping and compulsive with superb performances
Review: Hollywood, LAMTA has again delivered a knockout of a dance show
Stage: Fiona Ramsay in Blonde Poison, searingly brilliant theatre
Review: The Little Mermaid shimmering on stage at Canal Walk Theatre winter 2024
Review: Dynamic choral exchange by St Olaf Choir in concert with the UCT University Choir
Review: Grand Opera, epic, expansive production of Lucia di Lammermoor by Cape Town Opera
Performance: Hunger Count, durational performance art installation by Carin Bester, National Arts Festival 2024
Stage: Magicians Brendon Peel and Li Lau return to SA stages for National Arts Festival 2024
Stage: Waterfront Theatre School presents South African premiere of Heathers The Musical at Artscape, July 2024
Stage: The Karin Kortje Foundation hosting inaugural Carols in July in Cape Town
Review: Ashley Dowds delivers a tender and nuanced performance in The Return of Elvis Pisane
Stage: LAMTA’s Hollywood, a dance spectacle celebrating the glitz, grit and glamour of Tinseltown
Stage: Canal Walk Theatre Presents: The Little Mermaid, 2024
Stage: Forever Motown, The Musical, debuts in Cape Town July 2024
Stage: Celebrated St Olaf Choir conducted by Dr Anton Armstrong on tour South Africa 2024
Stage: Darkroom Contemporary Dance Theatre presents ULTRA at the National Arts Festival 2024
Stage: Dance Intersect 2024, Meet the Dancers in Silent Symphony of Feelings
Stage interview: Andi Colombo talks about 32 Lavender Close, a bathroomedy
Stage:Dog Rose is poignant, quirky with a warm heart, beautiful and special theatre
Festival: Closing weekend of FynArts 2024, features five performances on stage
Review: The Golden Girls on stage in South Africa 2024 is fun fun fun, upbeat, inspiring and uplifting.
Review: Trouble in Mind, Cape Town 2024, is a wonderful opportunity for audiences to become engrossed in this riveting play
Design: Your hot guide to Decorex Africa 2024 Cape Town
Community: Real Reform for ECD celebrates milestone publication of Children’s Amendment Bill
Africa: Celebrating Africa Day May 2024, new campaign by award winning African agency Perfect Solutions, highlights the beauty of Africa
Stage: David Kramer’s award winning musical Ver In Die Wêreld Kittie returns for a limited run at The Blik
Stage: 32 Lavender Close, directed and written by Andi Colombo, winner of the Theatre Arts Emerging Theatre Directors Bursary 2024
Stage: Cape Town Opera presents Lucia di Lammermoor at Artscape, June 2024, directed by Angelo Gobbato
Design: Discover the pulse with Africa’s most exciting lifestyle companies at Decorex Cape Town 2024
Interview: McCoy Mrubata’s Cape Town 2024 Homecoming Concerts, celebrating his milestone birthday and launch of new album Lullaby for Khayoyo
Stage: Bo Petersen’s Pieces of Me, South Africa 2024 tour, starts at FynArts
Stage interview: Fun and entertaining tribute to The Golden Girls, South Africa 2024
Design: Decorex 2024, from small screen to decor scene, inventive room sets to bring emojis to life
Stage: My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout, starring Julie-Anne McDowell, South Africa 2024
Review: Brilliant play, Droomwerk, cathartic in its honesty, pain and capacity for facing the unresolved and uncomfortable
Dance theatre: After Dark, choreographed by Lee van der Merwe for Dance Intersect 2024
Review: The King Of Broken Things is beautiful, poignant, lyrical theatre experience of the extraordinary
Dance: Artscape celebrates 30 years of Democracy and diversity with SboNdaba Dance, May 2024
Festival news: FynArts 2024 at a glance, thrilling offerings June 7-17 in Hermanus
Community: Do More Foundation and Care for Education partner to enrich play based learning with DUPLO boxes to ECD Centres in SA
Stage: Back with a Bang with the May 2024 lineup at The Drama Factory
Community news: Advocates for young children took to streets in Johannesburg to urge political parties to prioritise Early Childhood Development
Magic on stage: The College of Magic’s spellbinding new show, Unbelievable, four shows, Artscape, June 2024
Review: Louis Viljoen’s The Sin Drinkers, beguiling drama, in a gloaming glare of closure
Stage: Pieter Odendaal’s award winning play Droomwerk coming home to Cape Town
Stage: Thembi Mtshali-Jones stars in Trouble in Mind by Alice Childress at the Baxter, 2024
Review: The South African 2024 production of Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus is extraordinary
Dance news: Cape Ballet Africa, visionary new dance company reimagines how dance can look in Africa
On stage: Sleep! with André the Hilarious Hypnotist, Cape Town tour, May 2024
Community news: Gauteng Health Department introduces devastating requirement, ECD programmes must be registered to receive nutrition support
Theatre news: West End and Broadway hit, Tell Me on a Sunday, on stage in Cape Town, April 2024
Community news: The Early Childhood Development sector launching the People’s Manifesto for ECD at Constitution Hill
Review: Stunning opera showcase, SHORTS: A Festival of Pocket Operas, presented by Cape Town Opera, April 2024
Theatre news: Next! Thank you!… tongue-in-cheek musical revue by Debby Jamieson, with Matthew Reid on sax and keys
Community news: Human Rights Month in Rustenburg, empowering Day Mothers
Musical theatre news: Fame the Musical on stage in Cape Town, April 2024
Music news: Melorie Jane, acclaimed South African jazz pianist generating a buzz with a new CD, Hold the Stars
Theatre news: Multiple award winning the King of Broken Things at the Baxter, May 2024
Interview: Urgently compelling, relevant, staging Trial by Media, world premiere, presented by Cape Town Opera, SHORTS-A Festival of Pocket Operas
Theatre news: The Golden Girls, celebration of iconic TV show on stage in Cape Town at The Masque
Stage: WhatsOnStageMzansi @TheCapeRobyn April 2024
Review: Our Mother the Earth – Where will our children play? by SboNdaba Dance is an exceptional piece of dance theatre
Theatre news: Amazing April 2024 lineup at The Drama Factory, Western Cape
In the Limelight: Lerato Maphatsoe, channelling pain into power and birthing new dreams
Community news: Human Rights Month South Africa 2024 in Bushbuckridge, connecting ECD practitioners and Government
Opera news: Cape Town Opera presents ‘SHORTS-A Festival of Pocket Operas’, Artscape, April 2024
Theatre news: 59th Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards winners celebrated at the Baxter
Festival news: William Kentridge is the Legacy Award Winner at the 2024 FynArts Festival in Hermanus
Review: Super duper Mamma Mia! South Africa 2024 is a winner, superlative
Theatre news: Ìlọ Yá, solo play written and performed by Oluwasegun Lafup Ogundipe, debuts in Cape Town
Review: Die vegetariër is a brilliant production, brilliant staging, design and mind blowing performances
Review: Sweeney Todd, stunning site-specific immersive production in a bakery in Cape Town
Theatre news: Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards for Contribution to Theatre 2024, announced before Gala Event
Record breaking gin fest: Two Gingers presents Cape Cheers, April 6, 2024
Musical theatrical news: Hail to the King! A Musical Story, Dr Thokozani Mhlambi, Cape Town, April 2024
Dance theatre news: Our Mother the Earth – Where will our children play? SboNdaba Dance, premiere, Cape Town, March 2024
Interview: Immersive site-specific Sweeney Todd in an industrial bakery, Olympia Bakery, Kalk Bay, March 2024
Dance theatre: Anderson Carvalho Dance & Choreography (ACDC) presenting Dance Intersect 2024, exciting season of dance theatre, Baxter, Cape Town
Review: Verve, whimsy and tenderness, exceptional theatre for tots, Red Boots, Theatre in the Dark
Review: Fabulous Ratanga Park Sunset Concerts launch, Feb 25, 2024
Theatre news: Festival of new South African plays promotes and celebrates local writers at The Masque, March 2024
Theatre news: Comedy, music and Every Brilliant Thing for The Drama Factory in March 2024
Theatre news: Nominations announced for 59th Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards
Review: Djeli, magical storytelling, framed by the warm glow of paraffin lamps and the sands of time, shape shifting physically and metaphorically
Review: Light in the dark, Diapason and In Transit, Theatre in the Dark, Cape Town
Review: Erika Breytenbach-Marais is mesmerising with her searing and visceral performance in The Good Dad/Die Goeie Pa
Review: An Evening in the Company of Grief, Theatre in the Dark, lovingly crafted and exquisite piece of theatre
Festival news: FynArts 2024 presents two summer outdoor concerts in Hermanus
Review: Breathtakingly fabulous Puccini double bill by Cape Town Opera, February 2024
Review: Expelled is an unsettling cautionary morality tale, igniting essential conversations in the vortex of social media
Review: Electrifying Emperor’s New Clothes, zips and zaps into the Zeitgeist of our times
Review: Excellent script, performances, design and direction, Duncan McMillan West End hit play Lungs
Review: Legally Blonde The Musical, Cape Town 2024, beautifully staged, knockout performances, choreography and upbeat songs
Insight: Theatre in the Dark, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet
Interview: Tik Tok goes The Emperor’s New Clothes in South Africa, fun and contemporary
Review: Romeo & Juliet at Maynardville 2024, infused with a millennial energy by young leads and knockout performances by veteran thespians
Outdoor concerts: Century City launches The Ratanga Park Sunset Concerts, with Die Heuwels Fantasties, Sunday February 25, 2024
Theatre news: Fun new take on classic fave for children, The Emperor’s New Clothes at The Masque, February 2024
Theatre news: Djeli to shed light on the meaning of life, Theatre in the Dark, Theatre Arts, Cape Town, Feb 2024
Theatre news: Fabulous February 2024 at The Drama Factory
Opera news: Puccini double bill, Cape Town Opera’s Angelica and Gianni Schicchi at Artscape, February 2024
Theatre news: Intimate and immersive production of Sondheim’s masterpiece, Sweeney Todd, March 2024, Cape Town
Interview: Sibahle Mabaso’s In Transit at Theatre in the Dark- exploring darkness, sound and light
Theatre news: Critically acclaimed The Good Dad/Die Goeie Pa at the Baxter, February 2024
Review: Marthinus Basson’s striking staging of Die Fel Omstrede Kroon van Edward II en Gaveston, is a wow
Insight: Magical opening for Maynardville 2024
Big band news: Lady Day Big Band (LDBB) album launch and concert
Review: Chasing the Sugarman, elegiac and moving tribute to Rodriguez
Review: Sensational WILD, neo Western cirque cabaret at the Kalk Bay Theatre
Theatre news: Theatre under the stars at Maynardville 2024, Cape Town tradition since the 1950s
Live music news: Award-winning Simphiwe Dana, set to dazzle Cape Town audiences, January 2024
Theatre news: Begin the year 2024 with The Young Professionals at Theatre Arts
Review: Fabulously Fast and Reasonably Furious with Alan Committie
Preview: The Hollywoodbets Cape Town Street Parade, January 2, 2024
Review: Pumpkin Finds Her Kindness is charming, sparkling, entertaining theatre for children
Insight: Lekker vibes at Unity on The Square Music Festival Cape Town 2023
Review: Rapunzel Untangling the Truth, a lot of fun, with an enthusiastic and energetic cast having a blast on stage
Review: The Sound of Music – exceptional, fresh and vibrant staging of much loved musical
Gifting: 10 Ways to Gift for Good, this Festive Season with The Do More Foundation
Review: Stunning VOOMA! By Zip Zap is a festive season winner
Review: Cape Town City Ballet, Veronica Paeper’s A Christmas Carol, December 2023 is a treat, a joy and a lot of fun
Community: Do More Foundation and RCL Foods empowers Molteno community through transformative initiatives for children and parents
Fashion: SA hip-hop sensation, Lucasraps, partners with nostalgic sports brand, Starter, new fashion capsule range launching this festive season
Review: Marc Lottering, So I Wrote That Musical is an upper, a tonic, must-see for the festive season
Review: Reza de Wet’s African Gothic (Diepe Gronde), brilliantly directed by Amee Lekas, exceptional theatre
Review: Spring Awakening- excellent production by LAMTA, directed by Sylvaine Strike
Review: Every Brilliant Thing is brillant theatre
Review: Moved to tears in a good way by Pieter-Dirk Uys in Bambi Kellermann in Kaberet 2023 with Godfrey Johnson
Cabaret news: Wêla Kapela Productions, Cabaret Festive Season 2023
Review: Entertaining, sophisticated King George is a biting morality play and cautionary tale with knockout performances
In the Limelight: South Africa Ronette Marx celebrates two decades in the modelling biz
Interview: Aidan Lewis, musical director of Rapunzel – Untangling the Truth talks about conceptualising the fun soundtrack of whimsy and mashups
Circus news: The return of thrills, Zip Zap unleashes VOOMA! Circus spectacle, December 2023
Theatre news: African Gothic by Reza de Wet, directed by Amee Lekas, winner of Theatre Arts Emerging Theatre Directors Bursary 2023
Review: Flughafen, wonderfully original new South African play by Alice Viskat
Interview: The Pussy Squad at Infecting the City 2023, charismatically challenging pre-conceived ideas of women’s bodies
Public arts festival: Infecting the City 2023, Cape Town, two week fest
Theatre news: Theatre Arts shines spotlight on the impact of load shedding with upcoming Theatre in the Dark 2024 Season
Musical theatre news: Legally Blonde The Musical, Cape Town, Artscape, Feb 2024
Theatre and music: The Jive Culture Shock 2023, proudly Capetonian showcase returns for a fourth season
Insight: Children’s in focus at Cape Town City Ballet’s A Christmas Carol 2023
Interview: Seeing ourselves on stage, universal theme of loss, award winning Karatara, Johannesburg November 2023 season at Market Theatre
TV commercial: SA film director partners with UK production company to showcase virtual reality dating app in spectacular international TV commercial
Theatre news: Flughafen the play by Alice Viskat, screwball comedy and thrilling, psychological twists
Review: Immersion in the quiet of Constellations 2023, The Garden of Good and Evil
Theatre news: Expelled, new South African play by Rosalind Butler, premiering in Feb/March 2024 at Baxter and then transferring to The Market Theatre
Theatre news: Get ready for the gift of festive season fun with The Masque’s Rapunzel – Untangling the Truth
Community news: First Lady, Dr Tshepo Motsepe, advocates for child nutrition at Right to Nutrition Campaign launch by Real Reform for ECD
Review: The Murder of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, innovative, fabulously fun stage adaption of Agatha Christie’s novel
Review: Bucket Boy, funny, wistful, psychological thrills, twists and absurdity
Music festival news: Cape Town’s Unity On The Square returns with a star-studded line-up, December 16, 2023
Community: Right to Nutrition Campaign- launch on November 3, 2023 by the The Real Reform for ECD (RR4ECD)
Ballet news: Cape Town City Ballet’s festive season 2023,Veronica Paeper’s A Christmas Carol
Interview: What happens backstage doesn’t stay backstage when a drama society stages, The Murder of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Review: Mesmerising and stunning La traviata, Cape Town, October 2023
Books: Monthly gratitude journal for kids aims to grow better humans in South Africa
Community news: Do More Foundation activates campaigns, beyond 2023 World Food Day, in ECD Centres in SA
Destinations: FynArts Weekend of Workshops, Hermanus, November 2023
Review: Matilda JR, Cape Town 2023, a lot of fun, with a talented and energetic cast
Theatre news: Star-studded November 2023 line-up at The Drama Factory
Insight: Woordfees 2023 in Stellenbosch- igniting conversations – in and out of our bubble
Review: Lyle Kessler’s Orphans, directed by Christo Davids, South Africa 2023, is a triumph, a theatrical gem
Bubbly news: 2023 Festival of Bubbles at the Vineyard Hotel, Cape Town
Theatre news: Matilda Jr– A Timeless Tale of Magic and Imagination comes to life on stage in Cape Town
Community: South African non-profit organization, Outside The Bowl Global, launches nationwide Christmas Drive 2023
Community news: Do More Foundation celebrates World Food Day October 16, 2023
Review: Beautiful music of Carole King, beautifully evoked in Up On The Roof -The Carole King Songbook
Live music news: Classical Calabash- a musical journey from sunset to sunrise at Woordfees 2023
Performance news: Constellations – The Garden of Good and Evil, Spier Wine Farm, November 2023
Shakespeare in Africa: Preview screenings of film, Speak Me A Speech, at Woordfees 2023
Theatre news: Agatha Christie’s The Murder of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd becomes a hilarious play-within-a-play at The Masque
Review: The stickiness of connections and disconnections in ULTRA by Darkroom Contemporary Dance Theatre
Review: Exit/Exist by Gregory Maqoma, rousing beautiful performance; lament and celebration
Concert: ATKV-Crescendo finalists gearing up for final training week and concert, Sit Dit Aan
Interview: Darkroom Contemporary Dance Theatre’s Louise Coetzer talks about ULTRA
Theatre news: An evening with musical theatre super stars and Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra, Artscape Opera House, April 2024
Business: Elevate Your Enterprise Summit 2023, championing growth through marketing, technology and Investments
Theatre news: Discover incredible local music talent with Interlace Live at The Masque, October 2023
Jazz news: Mandla Mlangeni Quartet, Cape Town October 2023
Theatre news: ULTRA by Darkroom Contemporary Dance Theatre at Woorfees 2023
Review: The Promise on stage, extraordinary theatre, magnificent production
Theatre news: Exciting October 2023 programme at The Drama Factory
Review: Soul food and deliciously funny, A Vegan Killed my Marriage
Gin and music: Raise a glass and make history with Two Gingers Gin
Theatre news: VR Theatrical’s Up On The Roof, The Carole King Songbook
Community: Do More Foundation South Africa- ready to do more in Randfontein communities
Insight: Andre the Hilarious Hypnotist, back on on stage in South Africa 2023
Cape Town Baroque Festival: 2023 fest features music from Spanish Renaissance until the 21st century
Theatre news: Christo Davids directs Lyle Kessler’s play Orphans at the Baxter, October 2023
Theatre news: Gavin Werner’s play, Spanish Steps – 2023 Cape Town
Review: The Moon Looks Delicious From Here – poignant portrait of a family in its magic and complexities
Review: Cape Town Opera’s 2023 Tosca – ravishing production
Funding call: Opportunity for EdTech entrepreneurs and social innovators, to improve language and literacy in South African homes
Insight: Theatre Arts, rehearsal space of choice in Cape Town and vibrant theatre
Review: Happy place in Same Time, Next Year South 2023 production
Theatre announcement: Winners of Emerging Theatre Directors Bursary 2023
Jazz news: Jazz Waves Wednesdays on 91 Bree, Old Bailey Lounge Bar Cape Town
Live music: World renowned cellist and composer, Dr Thokozani Mhlambi, presenting Heritage Month 2023 concert in Cape Town
Interview: Never Say Die – singing to the theme of her life -is South African star, Berry
Review: And The Winner Is – Cape Town’s WTS delivers captivating dance show
Theatre news: The countdown is on to the world première of Damon Galgut’s The Promise – on stage
Theatre news: And The Winner Is – WTS, Cape Town, celebrating award-winning musicals and films
Review: Zip Zap’s MOYA 2023 is awe-inspiring theatrical circus
Review: Flummoxed by grief and sadness, in South African English version of The Good Dad
Theatre news: Parel Vallei delivers another powerful Afrikaans play to Cape Town audiences, with Wegwereld
Review: Cantos of a Life in Exile is a beautifully poignant theatre experience
Shopping: Ancient Spirit, ahh, where did you get THAT?
Music news: Berry, SA musician and 2021 Idols winner, releasing new music and hosting Heritage Month concert in Cape Town
Opera news: Cape Town Opera’s grand scale Tosca in Cape Town, September 2023
Review: Maina Gielgud’s fun, sassy, whimsical Don Q 2023, for Cape Town City Ballet
Review: Inspirational Blind Ambition doccie screening at Solo Studios 2023
Review: Living for art -why do moths fly like crazy f*@#ks in the night?
Review: The Beauty Queen of Leenane is engrossing theatre, engaging with a host of festering issues
Review: The Water Rats, documentary of intimacy and tenderness of interpersonal connection
Review: Stylish with stunning art, 1 Royal Street Guesthouse in Riebeek Kasteel
Concert news: Daylin Sass celebrates his late mother with his Heritage Month 2023 show
Music news: Love inspires ATKV-Crescendo finalist Alzanley Lizemore’s single, Klein Oneindigheid
Community news: South African NPO, Outside The Bowl, combating childhood hunger with One Million Meals
Music news: Cape Town’s Marsha Bothma, releases music video from her single, Vlam in My Hart, as ode to her love
Preview: World premiere of Sue Pam-Grant’s MOTHS play, a portrait of a Woman as Artist
In the Limelight: A weekend of art and culture at Riebeek Valley’s Solo Studios 2023
Interview: Makhaola Ndebele’s Cantos of a Life in Exile, the power of theatre and performance practice to transcend displacement and estrangement
Interview: Richard Wiseman – Magic is symbolic of the impossible being possible and that is inspirational
Ballet news: Cape Town City Ballet’s Don Quixote 2023
In the Limelight: Wêla Kapela Productions from South Africa, at the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe Festival
In the Limelight: Chayela Rosenthal – Wunderkind of the Vilna Ghetto Theatre
Review: Magnet Theatre Youth Company’s Surge is a lyrically poignant and magical theatre experience
Theatre news: Makhaola Ndebele’s Cantos of a Life in Exile, yearning for a place to call home, Cape Town, August 2023
Review: Exceptional play, Die Halwe Huis is a poignant howl from inside a crushed psyche
Insight: ACDC at the Ubumuntu Arts Festival – a shared space with the expression of unique voices and visions
Theatre news: Second Women’s Month Festival at The Drama Factory, celebrates South African stories through music, comedy and drama
Theatre news: The Waiting Game, set to music and dance exploring the need and want for human connection
Music and art: Ground breaking Solo Symphony at Solo Studios 2023
Review: Set in Motion- threads which bind and connect us as humans in constant flux
Review: Educating Rita – Willie Russell’s classic comedy revisited
Preview: Die Halwe Huis, award winning drama, with poetry, storytelling and music
Dance announcement: Dancers Love Dogs (DLD), back on stage, Cape Town, July 2023
In the Limelight: MOYA 2023 on stage, with new music and acts
Review: Outstanding staging of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night by the Masque in Cape Town
Review: Intimacy of the Skin, tender and beautifully nuanced dance theatre, of personal and collective memory
Review: Madly marvelous Alice in Wonderland at Canal Walk’s Children’s Theatre 2023
Review: Magical Cinderella/Cendrillon harnesses the intimacy of chamber/salon opera and the grandeur of epic theatre
Trends: Hatching design at Decorex Africa 2023
Interview: Laughter and enjoyment in the Masque’s 2023 staging of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, set in Weimar Germany
Review: Stunning Jive Cape Town Funny Festival 2023
Review: Rousing celebration and lament in documentary, Reflections in a broken mirror
Art news: Bespoke art at Solo Studios – Intimate Art Encounters 2023
Theatre news: Naledi winning, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, has its Cape Town premiere at The Baxter, August 2023
In The Limelight: Creating Cape Town Opera’s Cinderella- a menagerie of cutting-edge minimalism with opulence and elegance
Preview: Beat It – The Incredible Story of Michael Jackson, on in Cape Town, July 2023
Music news: Worcester-born artist, Selby Williams, follows his dream with the release of single, Hier is Ek
Review: Transcendence of Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony, the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra SA tour 2023
Interview: Trailblazing and innovative – family friendly adaption of Cinderella, by Cape Town Opera
Review: LAMTA’S Vintage Jukebox is a seductively immersive jewel box of a show
Review: Compelling psychological thriller which digs deep into abuse, trauma, revenge and choices made
Interview: Canal Walk’s Alice in Wonderland 2023, twinkles and sparkles with puppets, animation, original score and lyrics
Theatre news: The Reed Player staged in 2023, by Marianna Productions
Festival news: Wêla Kapela Productions at National Arts Festival 2023
Music news: Afrikaans singer, Madelaine, releases her debut single: Ek Kies Vandag
Film news: Reflections in a broken mirror has world premiere at 25th Encounters South African International Documentary Festival, 2023
Theatre news: Canal Walk Children’s Theatre presents Alice in Wonderland, 2023
Festival news: Sibongakonke Mama’s award winning play at National Arts Festival 2023
Interview: Benjamin Zander talks about the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra’s South African tour, June 2023
Destinations: A Blooming Perfect Way To View The Spring Wild Flowers Spectacle in the Cape, 2023
Insight: Communing in happiness in Hermanus at FynArts 2023
Opera news: Enchanting Cinderella for winter school holidays at Artscape, July 4-8, 2023
Review: Bold, brave edgy staging of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! in 2023, Cape Town
Winter School: FynArts in Hermanus 2023 offers fabulous presentations, workshops and demonstrations
Must-sees: Discover the best in home decor and design at Decorex Cape Town 2023
Circus announcement: Zip Zap’s MOYA is back with brand- new original music and acts
Review: The College of Magic’s Impossible! is a spectacular escape from reality
Sustainability: Decorex 2023, celebrates how decor and design businesses are approaching sustainability
Public art: Walking Back to Happiness with Sculpture on The Cliffs at FynArts 2023
Trends: Delectable food trends served up at Decorex Cape Town
Innovation: Exploring the next wave of creativity and inovation, Decorex Africa’s Future of Design
Review: Zip Zap’s Vooma! is a wow- polished, fun and full of ‘vooma’
Curated wine events: Wine by Design and The Art of Wine at FynArts 2023
In the Limelight: From small beginnings, FynArts in Hermanus, celebrates its 11th festival in 2023
Classical music: Celebrated conductor, Benjamin Zander, brings award-winning Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra on tour, South African June 2023
Preview: LAMTA’s new dance production Vintage Jukebox celebrates the spirit of the Roaring Twenties
Review: Sell-By- Date – Pieter-Dirk Uys and his truly unstoppable titanium Tannie Evita
Interview: Oklahoma! staged in Cape Town June 2023- re-invigorating and revitalizing this seminal musical with a young and energetic cast
Interview: Mentalist Bryan Miles, loves exploring the cracks in our reality and the magic of the mind
Interview: Angelique Munyange- the DRC born, South African raised actress talks about her career in the USA
Interview: Houdini escape featured in Impossible! –epic scale Family Magic Show by the College of Magic, Cape Town, June 2023
Festival news: The 2023 FynArts Festival is an epic fusion of arts festival and winter school
Music festival: 3rd annual Klassieke Koelkamers in Paternoster, June 15-18, 2023, Youth Day weekend
Music news: Rising South African musician, Deard, drops debut single: Antisocial
Interview: Pieter Dirk Uys, Sell-By-Date, personal journey from the paralysis of states of disaster to renewed energy and enjoyment
Music on stage: Get your secret season sizzling, with a great May 2023 music line-up, at The Drama Factory
Circus news: Zip Zap’s VOOMA! Is almost here, May/June 2023
Preview: International mentalist Bryan Miles returns to Cape Town stage, June 2023, with new show Hidden Senses!
Theatre announcement: Damon Galgut’s The Promise, directed by Sylvaine Strike, premières, 2023 in South Africa
Review: Cape Town Opera’s The Pearl Fishers (2023) is sublimely exquisite
Announcement: The Institute for Creative Arts (ICA) launches the 2023 Great Texts/Big Questions Lecture series on May 16
Review: We Will Rock You- South Africa 2023- sensational epic production
Review: Mike van Graan’s My Fellow South Africans, laughing, but it hurts
Review: Firefly is lyrical and meditative – beguiling theatre
Review: David Kramer’s Ver in die wêreld Kittie, enchanting homage, tribute and celebration
Preview: Twelfth Night set in Weimar Germany, staged by The Masque, Cape Town
Interview: Who is Anderson Carvalho? The Brazilian-Dutch choreographer talks about his passion for the African continent and kindling the intersection of dance across nations and sensibilities
Interview: Cape Town artist Shakil Solanki subverting the narrative of the The Pearl Fishers into a queer love triangle for Cape Town Opera’s production
Interview: Empatheatre, South Africa’s theatre company of healing- changing, challenging systems and igniting vital conversations
Review: Cruise the play, a vivid portrait of love, identity and cruising through trauma
Preview: David Kramer’s Ver in die wêreld Kittie
Review: Mad dogs and shenanigans at the Good News Cabaret-quirky, wry, witty and entertaining
Opera news: International opera star Levy Sekgapane returns home for Cape Town Opera’s The Pearl Fishers, May 2023
Review: Die Moeder is immersive and compelling viewing- brilliant and innovative production
Magic news: New TV series, to showcase talents of Cape Town’s young magicians
Circus celebration: Zip Zap celebrates World Circus Day 2023
Review: Kirstenbosch Summer Concerts 2022/23, a jubilant season
Interview: The Good News Cabaret, mélange of new songs and standards and comedy by Godfrey Johnson and Roland Perold
Review: Buddy – the Buddy Holly Story – South Africa 2023- Stupendous! Sophisticated, vibrant and immersive production
Interview: Jessie, Die Man en Die Maan, by Kanya Viljoen, starring Carlo Daniels
Dance announcement: Dance Intersect 2023- exciting dance platform in Cape Town – with public performances in May
Insight: Devil Song- new South African cabaret
Interview: Before the Second Advent, grappling with sickness and faith stems from a real place
Water access: QVDB Foundation and Cassper Nyovest, giving students access to clean drinking water
Theatre news: Zip Zap’s New Performance Hall in Cape Town, building fund is gaining traction
Review: Jonathan Roxmouth’s Key Change – My Favourite Pianists- stunning show underpinned by multi-dimensional innovative conceptual arc
Announcement: Winners of 58th Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards 2023
Concert announcement: Love Life and Happiness,Emo Adams, Jesmoné Damonse and Berry on April 8, 2023 in Stellenbosch
Insight: In the Spirit of Peace: Bheki Khoza with Kazakyah Ben Israel at Gallery South, Cape Town
Preview: The Good News Cabaret, Roland Perold and Godfrey Johnson at three venues in the Cape, April 2023
Preview: Before the Second Advent- drama in four acts by Ydalie Turk
Insight: Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards- is your production eligible for nomination?
Review: Daniel Newton’s play,The Rangers, playback of memory and narratives, triggering in multiple directions
Preview: Love Me, Feed Me, Never Leave Me- comedic play – love, loss, longing, relationships and modern world of dating
Preview: VOOMA! – the new high-octane show by Zip Zap Circus –May and June 2023 in Cape Town
Review/interview: Epic Hamlet –opulent and operatic- mythical trance-like masque
Preview: Our Oceans Our Future – première season, presented by SboNdaba Dance, Cape Town
Review: Ziyana- exquisitely manifested musical drama, alchemy of storytelling, memory, blessings
Preview: Cape Town Jewish Literary Festival 2023 with spirited lineup
Interview: Carlo Daniels, No Complaints, dynamic, ingenious response to Beckett’s Happy Days
Preview: Gratitude- solo exhibition of oil paintings by Jaret Loggenberg at Avontuur Estate in Somerset West
Interview: Patisserie Femme – satirical play – commentary on how woman are defined- to be chewed, consumed and spat out
Theatre news: Announcement of nominees for 58th Fleur du Cape Theatre Awards
Review: When We Awake- poignant, lyrical, nuanced, drawing vividly from oral storytelling Intsomi and games
Review: Cape Town City Ballet soars with enchanting double bill at Maynardville 2023
Interview: New South African satirical cabaret, Devil Song, set in a South African-inspired netherspace
In the Limelight: QGC is set to uplift the Namibian mining town of Klein Aub
Review: Masterful Sandra Prinsloo –intoxicating mélange of theatre and opera in Terrence McNally’s Master Class
In the Limelight: Nwabisa Plaatjie When We Awake, returns to The Baxter, from February 28 to March 4, 2023
Film news: Thembi Mtshali-Jones celebrates the 35th anniversary of anti-apartheid film, Mapantsula, in Berlin, February 2023
Preview: Cape Town City Ballet at Maynardville Open-Air Festival 2023 with Summersnow, glorious double bill
Review: Live Art Network Africa 2023 – intensely immersive experience
In the Limelight: Cape Town Opera’s National Schools Tour 2023
Preview: Brand new South African production, Devil Song, glittering cabaret of villainous proportions
Mining news: QGC partners with Marula Mining to develop and mine three major future metals projects
Interview: Aldo Brincat The Moon Looks Delicious from Here- triggering audience into remembering their heritage; to reflect on their past
Music news: Keanu Harker, releases Valentine’s single as a gift to fans
Mining news: QGC takes a leap into the sustainable Nickel mining sphere
Interview: Renowned trumpeter Mandla Mlangeni tours Cape Town, February 2023
Preview: Spier Harvest of the Arts Festival 2023, cultural abundance to delight the soul and senses
Review: Excellent play, Hansard, excellent production, South Africa
Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, at 2023 Maynardville Open Air Theatre Festival, fun, accessible, superbly staged and performed
Preview: Vincent – His Quest to Love and be Loved, at The Drama Factory, February 17-19, 2023
Review: Oedipus at Colonus #aftersophocles is vividly imaged, achingly grieving theatre, a fierce and defiantly immersive theatrical experience
Preview: Fagrie Isaacs hosting Ultimate Love Song Collection at the Castle, March 4, 2023
Applications: The Drama Factory and F Creations Women’s Month Festival, apply before March 31, 2023
Review: Louis Viljoen’s psycho-sexual thriller Grass Widow, machinations into realities and delusions
Interview: Tangibly reconnecting through the shared space of theatre in South African epic musical, Calling Us Home
Review: LAMTA’s Come Together: The Beatles Covered/Uncovered – excellent, brilliantly conceived dance theatre show -not to be missed
Preview: An evening of love and music – the Masque’s Valentine Soiree 2023
Interview: Uncovering the story of the Beatles for LAMTA’s The Beatles Covered/Uncovered
Preview: Terry Fortune’s Golden Oldies at Kirstenbosch Summer Sunset Concerts, February 5, 2023
Preview: Exciting programme for Live Art Network Africa Gathering, Cape Town, February 16-19, 2023
Review: Cape Town Opera triumph at Kirstenbosch Summer Concerts after an absence of 23 years
Interview: Loathsomely lovable Ugly Sisters in Cape Town City Ballet’s 2023 production of Veronica Paeper’s Cinderella
Preview: The Young Professionals at Theatre Arts, Cape Town – inaugural season 2023- showcasing work by graduates
Preview: LAMTA’S acclaimed, The Beatles Covered/Uncovered, returns to Cape Town stage, February 2023
Preview: Shakespeare, ballet, opera and music at 2023 Maynardville Open Air Theatre Festival
Preview: Cape Town Opera performs at Kirstenbosch Summer Sunset Concerts on January 22, 2023
Announcement: International guest artists- Vadim Muntagirov and Tatiana Melnik, will perform in Cape Town City Ballet’s Feb 2023 production of Veronica Paeper’s Cinderella
Preview: Renowned trumpeter, Fezile ‘Feya’ Faku gig in Cape Town, January 2023
Review: Sizzling concert by Goldfish at Kirstenbosch Summer Concerts 2022/23
Preview: Aldo Brincat’s The Moon Looks Delicious From Here – a theatre play of magical realism and far off places
Preview: Athlone Stadium ready for Klopse 2023 competitions after successful Hollywoodbets Cape Town Street Parade
Preview: Gustavo Romero, Schubert Sonata Series, Cape Town January 2023
Review: Glorious Kirstenbosch Summer Concerts 2022/23 – Neon Dreams, Majozi and Will Linley
Review: Alan Committie’s Live and Let Laugh is 90 minutes of sheer fun- love, love, loved it
Review: Sizzle- sizzles at Kalk Bay Theatre- astounding speciality acts, burlesque, comedy and dance
Review: Theodore Jantjies and Maurice Paige deliver dynamic performances in the madcap and zany Platform 9: Coming Home
Review: Curl Up & Dye – iconic play revisited – pushing metaphors around our roots in brilliant production
Review: Contested bodies with personal, political and celestial orbiting in Star+Crossed – intriguing new musical
Community: The Quinton Van Der Burgh Foundation continues to feed disenfranchised families in the Middleburg area
Review: Cape Town Theatre Company’s The Secret Garden is enchanting family entertainment
Review: Cape Town City Ballet’s, The Nutcracker is a sparkling jewel of a production
Review: Innovative Sleeping Beauty with gender bending fairies and a knockout Maleficent
Review: Fabulous! Aunty Merle – Things Get Real- is a comic and musical triumph
Double Star: Gravitational pull of love in relationship play which taps profoundly into the zeitgeist of feeling unhinged
Preview: Christmas with Keanu Harker and Friends – 2022 festive season concert
Review: Joyous, celebratory, innovative adaption of A Christmas Carol-enthralling storytelling musical theatre
Interview: Designing Sleeping Beauty with gender fluid fairies and a magnificent Maleficent
Review: Mike van Graan’s He Had It Coming is achingly funny, poignant and oh so sad
Destinations: Stargazing at Cederberg Observatory (Sterewag), Western Cape, South Africa
Interview: Star+Crossed – South African musical – storytelling as an agent of healing
Interview: Dr Siphiwo Mahala in conversation about his acclaimed play, Bloke and His American Bantu
Review: -No Complaints – new day, new dawn- extraordinary theatre experience – igniting light in a time of darkness
Lifestyle: Internationally award winning, beauty brand, Africa Organics has relaunched in South Africa, with a new website
Preview: The Secret Garden – magical stage adaptation of timeless novel, by Cape Town Theatre Company
Preview: Season 3 of Jive Culture Shock, on at Baxter in December 2022
Preview: World première of new musical, Star+Crossed, inspired by the life of South Africa’s Elizabeth Klarer
Interview: Craftivist Nell-Louise Pollock, stitching memory onto fabric, for Cape Town Opera’s One in Three
Review: LAMTA’s Being Steve – delicious tasting menu of Stephen Sondheim, Stephen Schwartz, and Stephen Flaherty
Interview: Exciting children’s company of dancers to accompany Cape Town City Ballet’s Nutcracker, summer of 2022
Preview: Sleeping Beauty is set to enchant at The Masque, Cape Town summer 2022/23
In the Limelight: Marius Schonken, South African finance entrepreneur launching charity to assist under resourced communities
Preview: Dreams, friendship, culture, humanity and love- Platform 9: Coming Home at Baxter, festive season- 2022/2023
Interview: 2022 Distell National Playwright Competition winner Sibongakonke Mama talks about her play
Preview: I Love 90s Dance Music- Africa tour 2022- headed up by international music superstars, CeCe Peniston and Crystal Waters
Review: Die Dag Toe Guppie Sweef –challenging how we think about our world, and the people in it
Preview: Exciting lineup for the 2022 Unity On The Square music festival in Cape Town
Review: Extraordinary Alcina, 2022, by Cape Town Opera and UCT Opera School
Review: Hold Still, Nadia Davids’ play is breathtaking – trauma of the living, walking in the steps of those who are no longer here to tell their stories
Review: The woods is a potent protagonist in Constellations 2022- riffing off land, storytelling, nature, connections
Happiness interview: Marlisa Doubell is basking in the happy vibes after Betrayal, Cape Town 2022
Preview: LAMTA’s Being Steve – tribute to three Broadway legends to renew your faith in music and the performing arts
Preview: Cape Town Concert Series- International Festival-November 2022
Review: Dinner With The 42’s – dating and connecting in a world of cacotopia
Interview: Pianist Germaine Gamiet imbues award winning Vincent, the cabaret, with beautifully nuanced musicality
Preview: Cape Town’s Rocksteady tribute, Women of Rock Unleashed at Hillcrest Quarry and The Drama Factory
Review: Zip Zap’s Rhapsody is astonishing in its circus artistry, staging and music
Review: At All Costs – powerful theatre of witness and testimony of Battle of Delville Wood
Review: The loneliness of freedom rings out loudly in 2022 in The Bells of Amersfoort
Interview: South African magician/mentalist Brendon Peel creating the illusion of getting inside the mind
In the Limelight: Winner announced for the 2022 Distell National Playwright Competition
Interview: At All Costs, Peter Terry’s play, men who are forced into killing other men on behalf of faceless politicians
Interview: Rhapsody brings to the stage the culture of the Cape, diversity of South Africa and the spirit of Zip Zap Circus
Preview: The Bells of Amersfoort by Zakes Mda, directed by Dintshitile Mashile
Interview: Lorin Sookool at Constellations 2022 with ‘ongoing’- mourning, motherhood and the act of working
Preview: Music and Art- fundraising showcase – presented by The Cape Town Concert Series at The Norval Foundation
Preview: Exciting theatre for children – Die Dag Toe Guppie Sweef- presented by Motorhuis Productions, Cape Town
Review: Betrayal – finely calibrated, stylish and elegant production
Review: The Unlikely Secret Agent- powerful and immersive dramatic experience
Cinema: Wrap weekend European Film Festival 2022- catch Olga
Preview: Women artists feature at Constellations 2022, at Spier
In the Limelight: Harnessing entrepreneurial essence with innovator Nomalanga Sitole
Interview: Jazz & Classical Encounters 2022 Vol 4 at Spier- a festival where our togetherness come alive
Review: Silent Land –scathing look at race, class, otherness, through the lens of tourists behaving badly
Preview: Zip Zap’s philharmonic circus show, Rhapsody on stage at Artscape, before travelling to Paris
Preview: Homegrown talent heads back to SA from LA for family tour, includes The Swing With The King, benefit concert
In the Limelight: Kim-Lee Wentzel Ricketts- sparking change and positivity
Review: Effortlessly excellent film, Ali & Ava
Review: Cape Town Opera’s 2022 touring production L’elisir d’amore is favolosa
Review: Julie’s Narcissistic Circus peeling out of The Worst Person in the World
Watchlist: Finely curated programme 16 films European Film Festival South Africa 2022
Review: Imaging the unimaginable in Klondike, the film
Review: What’s Your Budget? Breathtakingly beautiful celebratory cabaret-tribute
Review: Wistful and tender meditation in Petite Maman, on the ties that connect us in family, memory, love and loss
Review: Javier Bardem owns it as scaly but stylish patron in Spanish film, The Good Boss
Review: I’m your Man – compelling film takes an existential look at love, growing old and the meaning of it all
Interview: So You Want To Be A Trophy Wife?–locating the sweet spot of the Marie Biscuit –in over 50s coming-of-age play
In the Limelight: Health is literally wealth, Murray Hewlett, CEO of Affinity Health
Interview: Fagrie Isaacs talks about Here and Now – his epic Luther Vandross tribute show in Cape Town
Preview: Exciting Hermanus First Fridays Artwalk- October 2022- “CHAIR”lebration- weekend of art
Opera news: Cape Town Opera’s Conduct Like a Pro series- available free on CTO YouTube channel
Preview: An Epic Journey of hope in Maanmaats – part of finals of play competition, 2022 ATKV Tienertoneel
In the Limelight: Competitiveness through digitisation -W&RSETA -Wholesale and Retail SETA research conference
Preview: Thriller grappling with teenage leadership in Die Susterskap, in finals of play competition, 2022 ATKV Tienertoneel
Preview: European Film Festival (SA) 2022- exciting hybrid fest -bringing the best of European cinema to Southern African screens
Preview: Stunning lineup at Jazz & Classical Encounters 2022 Vol 4 at Spier
Invitation: Institute for Creative Arts ICA Podcast – Season 3
Review Marine grief poignantly evoked in Lalela uLwandle- listen to the sea
Interview: Harold Pinter’s Betrayal, a tale of illicit liaisons, on stage, Cape Town 2022
Preview: Award-winning The Unlikely Secret Agent returns for run at Baxter Theatre Centre ahead of tour
Interview: The whimsy of (mis)communication with Darkroom Contemporary Dance Theatre’s blame it on the algorithm
Interview: Dikelo Mamiala talks about starring in NEXT!!! the cabaret, art imitating life
Preview: Teens vie for magic champ titles, 2022 Cape Junior Magic Championships
Review: Karatara- who by fire and who should we say is calling
Art exhibition: Lewatle: Spirit of the Ocean, solo exhibition by Theko Boshomane
Preview: The Mzansi Tenors in concert in Hermanus, presented by Richard Cock
Review: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? South Africa 2022, is thrillingly illuminating, entertaining, must-see
Preview: Exciting CaberetFest 2022 by Wêla Kapela Productions,The Baxter, Cape Town
Preview: Baroque with a Twist- opens the Cape Town Baroque Festival 2022
Review: Sibuyiselo Dywili, electrifying performance as Can Themba in Siphiwo Mahala’s House of Truth
Review: Molupi Lepedi’s Back to Ashes is an intricately polished piece of theatre
Insight: The perils of booking through secondary ticket platforms
Review: Daniel Anderson captivates in the award winning, Vincent, The Cabaret
Preview: Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra Quintet -South Africa tour- September 2022- presented by Classical Movements
Interview: Umgidi – celebrating – Nduduzo Makhathini talks about his 2022 South African Heritage Month concerts
Interview: Leading Effectively in The Digital Era and Post-Covid-19, seminar hosted by Dr David Molapo
Preview: On tour, Cape Town Opera’s L’elisir d’amore 2022, Mpumalanga, Free State and Cape Town
Review: Hominal /Xaba in Cape Town 2022- beautifully cerebral and playful dance theatre experience
Preview: Belgian conductor Rik Ghesquière, will make his Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra debut with two concerts, September 2022
Craft Gin: Two Gingers Gin launches La Primavera, Spring Day 2022, South Africa
In the Limelight: Art meets science -Dr Reza Mia opens his first aesthetic medicine practice in Cape Town
Review: Eight men on stage at Kalk Bay Theatre, creating a beautiful Noise
Insight: Cape Town Opera’s Youth Development and Education Studio celebrates its 1st birthday
Review: Seeing the Invisible-AR exhibition is an extraordinary experience at Kirstenbosch, Cape Town
Stage review: The Shell Singer – the caterwaul of the voiceless scream – yearning to be heard
Tribute: An experience- Solo Studios Intimate Art Encounters in the Riebeek Valley
Review: Fordsburg’s Finest speaks volumes about home, identity and how South Africa is embedded in the hearts of people
Destinations: Groot Constantia Heritage Month 2022- experience culture at South Africa’s oldest wine producing farm
Preview: Smokie- Live in South Africa – summer 2022
Review: Ikigai – superlative triple bill, Cape Town City Ballet Winter Season 2022
Preview: Two performances of HOMINAL/XABA in Cape Town, September 2022
Review: Not Falling is raw, heart breaking and also uplifting and inspirational
Interview: Île by Sophie Joans- We can’t change our families, but we can laugh at them
Preview: Minnesota Orchestra Brass Quintet from the USA on tour in Cape Town August 2022
Insight: The sensational Slapstick by Zip Zap Circus returns to Cape Town, August 2022
Review/interview: Sculpting This Earth, complex and nuanced film, directed by Victor van Aswegen, featuring land artist, Strijdom van der Merwe
Destinations: Bliss – sheer comfort and mountain views in the King Suites at The Royal Hotel, Riebeek Kasteel
Preview: Speed Dating for the Brain at Spier’s Talking Heads 2022
Cinema: Two feature documentaries, Solo Studios Intimate Encounters 2022, including world premiere, Sculpting This Earth
Reflections: Optimism peeks through in Home, Hope and Humour theatre festival
Review: Cape Town City Ballet’s Romeo & Juliet is astounding – classical ballet which soars beyond archetype
Preview: Saxy Vibes 4.0, by renowned Cape Town musician and saxophonist, Don Vino, Women’s Month 2022
Insight: Exciting Riebeek Valley’s Solo Studios Intimate Art Encounters 2022
Preview: Brilliant pianist Kate Liu will give one recital and one masterclass in South Africa, September 2022
Interview: Tackling what-if life questions, Not Falling, play by Juliete Rose-Innes
Preview: Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra’s Spring Symphonies 2022, at City Hall
In the Limelight: SA musician, Keanu Harker, igniting good vibes through his music
Interview: Celebrating live performance at new Women’s Month Festival, The Drama Factory, Aug 2022
Film review: Girl, Taken- there’s no accounting for human behaviour in riveting documentary
Interview/review: Popping stereotypes, memory in enthralling multidisciplinary dance piece, POP
Insight: Leftfoot Dance– two gripping online dance pieces -Ikaros and Peter and the Wolf
Interview: Birthed out of personal loss and pain, The Shell Singer, play by Marianna le Roux
In the Limelight: Entrepreneur, Janice Chetty, embracing business and community advocacy
Classical music Youth Extravaganza 2022: SA Conductors’ Competition finals, CPO Youth Orchestra and Youth Ensembles
Preview: Eco-family drama Agulhasvlakte on at Theatre Arts, July 2022
Destinations: Groot Constantia harnesses people-power to go solar with Sun Exchange
Preview: Inaugural festival at The Drama Factory, August 2022 celebrates South African women, Your Voice, Your Stage
Preview: International superwoman Karyn White, Live in South Africa 2022
Insight: Harnessing the rainbow lining of online–as a vital platform for the live arts sector
Theatre news: Acclaimed production of Shirley Valentine, returns to Theatre on the Bay, August, 2022
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Cinema: TheCapeRobyn watchlist for 2022 Durban International Film Festival
Preview: Fabulous Femme Fantasties concert, Cape Town, kicks off Women’s Month 2022, produced by AKTV-Crescendo
Announcement: Internationally acclaimed conductor Jonathan Lo for Cape Town City Ballet Winter Season 2022, full cast list announced
Review: The CPO Community Spectacular Gala 2022, was an evening of wow
Review: The CapeRobyn watchlist -exciting diverse offerings at vNAF 2022
Preview: Award-winning The Unlikely Secret Agent returns, for 2022 Artscape Women Humanity Arts Festival
Review: Kerry Hiles miraculously reprises the legend of Eva Cassidy
Preview: Durban International Film Festival 2022, live and online, exciting hybrid presentation
Preview: International Guest Artists announced for Cape Town City Ballet’s Winter Season 2022
Review: Tony award-winning musical, Once On This Island, vividly evoked by South African theatre company
Preview: Buskaid celebrates its 25th anniversary with an epic concert, July 17, 2022
In the Limelight: Distell National Playwright Competition finalists for 2022
Preview: Oceanico – Brazilian and South African band- playing at Nouvelles Vibes, Alliance Francaise, Cape Town
Destinations: Everything was illuminated at NAF 2022 – live in Makhanda
Review: Bang bang – edgy Great Gatsby on stage in Cape Town
Destinations: Groot Constantia Estate celebrates its 337th birthday on July 13, 2022
Preview: Tony award-winning musical, Once On This Island, at the Baxter, July 8-16, 2022
Destinations: Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden Winter Wonders 2022 with kids free in school hols
Preview: CPO’S Community Spectacular Gala – epic concert- July 16, 2022, Artscape
Review: Sophie Joans’ Île is a spark in the dark -magical and lyrical storytelling theatre
In the Limelight: 2022 Standard Bank Ovation Awards, NAF 2022
Review: Delela –deliciously cheeky play with twisty bits and a Shakespearean undertow
Preview: FOM Benefit Gala – presented by Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra and Friends of Orchestral Music
In the Limelight: Free at National Arts Festival 2022
Review: James Webb – Nothing here does not hear you- at NAF 2022
Review: Tea and sweeteners at Gavin Krastin’s 12 Labours
Review: Janni Younge’s Hamlet-an extraordinarily beautiful knotted an intertwined coil of puppet and human creatures
Review: My Trauma and why I carry it, Rob van Vuuren Still Standing
Review: We Regret to Inform You at NAF 2022- transcending pain and loss, through art
Review: My Weight and Why I Carry It at NAF2022- poignant, funny and insightful
Review: Jackal & Wolf NAF 2022- puppetry and song captivates young audience
Review: Connecting within the chaos of the abrupt reboot to ‘normal’ at NAF2002
Review: And Not A Word Was Spoken- taps intensely into being unhinged and disconnected, even when we are physically together
Preview: The Jackal and the Wolf- exciting family theatre – at National Arts Festival 2022
Preview: Wela Kapela presenting three cabarets at National Arts Festival 2022
Review: Zip Zap’s astonishing MOYA Live– on stage- at NAF 2022
Review: LAMTA’s Come Together/The Beatles Covered /Uncovered is a dance and theatrical sensation
Preview: Cape Town Opera presents Twinkle Twinkle and Little Stars – opera for babies and toddlers
Review: Spanish Steps –coming-of-middle-age comedy – quirky, uplifting and fun