
The Centre for Jazz and Popular Music at the University of KwaZulu-Natal Howard College in Durban is hosting Neil Gonsalves’ Rites, Rights and Riots at 6pm on Wednesday, October 26. Continue reading

The Centre for Jazz and Popular Music at the University of KwaZulu-Natal Howard College in Durban is hosting Neil Gonsalves’ Rites, Rights and Riots at 6pm on Wednesday, October 26. Continue reading

Mark Mulder and Annie Robinson star in Tarty Flowers!, directed by Paul Spence, at 2pm on Friday, October 28, 8pm on Saturday, October 29, 2 pm on Sunday, October 30, 8pm on Friday, November 4, 8pm on Saturday, November 5, and 2 pm and 6.30pm on Sunday, November 6 at the Rhumeblow Theatre in Cunningham Avenue, Umbilo, Durban. Continue reading
Some of the biggest names in South African comedy are about to be unleashed at Sibaya’s iZulu Theatre. Collaborating for the three day Durban Laugh Comedy Festival from October 28 to 30 are Marc Lottering, Joey Rasdien, Yaaseen Barnes, Dalin Oliver and Neville Pillay. Continue reading

Kevin Perkins, South Africa’s best loved “white Indian”, will let fly his unique brand of from-the-hip, straight-talking comedy and unleash his widely-renowned, own-created Indian persona, Michael Naicker, at the Wild Coast Sun at 8pm on October 28 as part of his Mind the Gap – The Underground Tour. Continue reading

Members of the Durban Chamber Choir. Photo: Val Adamson
The Durban Chamber Choir continues its 2016 series of concerts with a programme intriguingly entitled ‘The Great Mystery’.
Performed under the baton of director, Dr Christopher Cockburn, this event, featuring choral music from the 16th and 21st centuries, is being staged at St Thomas’s Church in Musgrave, Durban, on Sunday, October 30 at 3pm.
The programme will be reprised at the Hayfields Lutheran Church in Pietermaritzburg on Sunday, November 6 at 3pm. Continue reading
Well known Imbizo Gallery owner and curator, Isabel Roos, is a lover of a broad selection of visual arts. Already the owner of two well established galleries – one in Ballito and one in Hoedspruit – her latest project is a beautiful new space in Pearl Walk, Umhlanga.
Pearl Walk is set to open its doors officially in November, but the new Imbizo Gallery will be opening with a bang on October 27. Continue reading

Split Signs stars Julia de Rosenworth and Adriana Jamisse. Photo – Alessandra Giffin
Split Signs is a double bill performance at the Theatre Arts Admin Collective, based at the Methodist Church Hall on the corner of Milton Road and Wesley Street, Observatory, Cape Town, at 8pm on October 26, 27 and 28, features exciting new work by Julia de Rosenwerth and Adriana Jamisse.
These young dance artists are working towards a language of movement and improvisation that is exploratory and different. Continue reading

TQ Zondi (behind) and Mpilo Nzimande in Feedback
TWO of my favourite young actors, TQ Zondi and Mpilo Nzimande, will be performing in Feedback at The Theatre-St Anne’s College at 7.30pm on Friday, October 28.
This Hexagon Theatre production, directed by Peter Mitchell, is a fantastical murder mystery that, in the peculiar logic of playwright Andrew Buckland, becomes a hilarious, poignant, lyrical and quirky piece of physical theatre. Continue reading

Christopher Duigan. Photo: Val Adamson
MARITZBURG pianist, Christopher Duigan, will be performing the music of Ludwig van Beethoven at St Agnes Church in Kloof at 7.30 pm on Thursday, October 27 and at the Tatham Art Gallery in Chief Albert Luthuli Street, Pietermaritzburg at 11.30 am on Sunday, October 30.
He will play three sonatas from the canon of Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas that represent each of these periods: the light-hearted Sonata in F Op 10 No 2, the popular ‘Moonlight’ Sonata Op 27 no 2 and the Sonata in E Op 109. Continue reading

Dillan Oliphant is the 2015 and 2016 Comedy Central Roast champion and a Comics Choice Award-winner and he is coming to Durban to address the Oliphant in the Room.
The Eldorado Park funnyman will be bringing his highly acclaimed one-man show to the Durban Jewish Club (DJC) on October 27, 28 and 29. Continue reading