The Gee Jays – Gary McKenzie, John Didlick and Grant Bell – are back with an all new musical revue, And That’s When The Trouble Started, at the Rhumbelow Theatre at 42 Cunningham Road, off Bartle Road, Umbilo, from March 10 to March 12. Continue reading
Following the success of his 2016 theatre tour, magician extraordinaire Mo Magic is set to intrigue, astonish and entertain Durban audiences with his brand new theatre show titled, Moments of Wonder, at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre on UKZN Howard College campus until March 12 and at the Hexagon Theatre in Pietermaritzburg from March 30 to April 1. Continue reading
FOR the March instalment of the monthly Music Revival concerts, pianist Christopher Duigan turns his hand to a light-hearted selection of charming popular classics in Tales from Grandmother’s Piano Album. Continue reading
Heading to the Schlesinger Theatre at Michaelhouse in Balgowan at 7.30pm on Friday, March 10 is The Cenotaph of Dan Wa Moriri, a finely crafted monument to memory.
An intensely personal reconstruction of co-writer and actor, Tony Miyambo’s memories of his father, Daniel Rasenga Miyambo, the play explores an intimate father-son relationship, recalled and reconstructed through remembered moments from the past, fading images captured in sepia toned photographs, conjured up conversations , snippets of music, truths and half- truths.
It is an ancient human attempt to connect our present to the past by mapping our relationships with the one’s we love.
ESTELLE SINKINS spoke to him ahead of the performance, his first in the KZN Midlands. Continue reading
Tony Miyambo stars in ‘The Cenotaph of Dan Wa Moriri’ at the Schlesinger Theatre at Michaelhouse. Photo: Supplied
Heading to the Schlesinger Theatre at Michaelhouse in Balgowan at 7.30pm on March 10 is The Cenotaph of Dan Wa Moriri, a finely crafted monument to memory. Continue reading
Magic, mentalism and stand-up comedy collide in the new stage show, Masood and Marvellous Mentalist at Sibaya casino and Entertainment Kingdom this weekend.
The show, which stars mentalist and “hypnogician” Troye (above left) and comedian Masood Boomgaard (above right), takes place at Sibaya’s iZulu Theatre on 3, 4 and 5 March. Continue reading
Sihle Mnqwazanakate, Kate Pinchuck, Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi and Mahlatsi Mokgonyana. Photo: Jesse Kramer
The Theatre Arts Admin Collective (TAAC) is calling for applications for the 2017 Emerging Theatre Director’s Bursary – in partnership with the Distell Foundation.
This year, they are offering two bursaries to emerging Cape Town-based black women directors. Students at both an undergraduate and post-graduate level will not be considered. Continue reading
El Anatsui, Warrior (2015) – Aluminium and copper wire. Estimate: £400,000–600,000
Christie’s will present work by some of the world’s leading international contemporary artists, donated to benefit Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, the first major contemporary art museum in Africa, which will open in Cape Town during September 2017.
Fourteen artists including El Anatsui, Roger Ballen, Yto Barrada, Peter Beard, Eamonn Doyle & Niall Sweeney, Frances Goodman, Kendell Geers, Antony Gormley, Rashid Johnson, Isaac Julien, Harland Miller, Athi-Patra Ruga, Yinka Shonibare MBE and Pascale Marthine Tayou, will be offered in Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Auction on the 8 March.
The proceeds will be used towards Zeitz MOCAA’s endowment to ensure the long-term sustainability of the museum. Continue reading
The next National Theatre Live broadcast to screen at Cinema Nouveau is the 2016 National Theatre production of Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus, starring Fresh Meat’s Adam Gillen and Misfit’s Karla Crome as Mozart and his wife, and Game of Throne’s Lucian Msamati as the composer’s great rival Salieri.
The stage production, directed by Michael Longhurst, was filmed live for broadcast into cinemas globally at the National Theatre in London, with orchestral accompaniment by the 30-piece Southbank Sinfonia orchestra.
Opening on Saturday, 4 March there will be for four screenings only. Continue reading
Director Jayan Moodley with script supervisor, Ashley Aldworth focus on the monitor during the filming of ‘Keeping up with the Kandasamys’ in Durban, while producers Junaid Ahmed (left) and Helena Spring ( back) look on. The film opens in SA on Friday, March 3.
The much-anticipated South African film Keeping up with the Kandasamys directed by Jayan Moodley and produced by the late Junaid Ahmed and Helena Spring premiered to an audience of almost 600 ten days ago at Gateway Ster-Kinekor in Durban. It opens nationwide in cinemas this Friday (March 3). Continue reading
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