On February 11, 1966 District Six was declared a white group area. Over 60,000 people were relocated. A way of life was destroyed. Fifty years have passed and today hardly anything remains of what was once a thriving, densely populated, multi-ethnic and multi-cultural community.
The Fugard Theatre, located in District Six, is currently paying homage to what was once District Six – the place and its people – until May 22 in the show District Six – Kanala. Continue reading
The Family Players and Friends – Allan Quihampton, Derek Pearce, Greg Baptie, Graham Goodwin and Roland Stansell – together with guest artists, Alaska Hilton and Trevor Gandy, present the all new Valentine show, Bar Flies, this weekend. Continue reading
If you love the music and songs from My Fair Lady, Camelot, Gigi, Brigadoon and Paint Your Wagon, then make sure you book your seats for Accustomed to his words – The lyrics of Alan Jay Lerner at the Hexagon Dive theatre at the University of KwaZulu-Natal Pietermaritzburg campus on Friday, February 12 and Saturday, February 13. Continue reading
Gill Brunings, director of the RSPA Theatre School is ecstatic after the organisation managed to secure a first for KwaZulu-Natal: the MTW – Musical Theatre Camp.
The camp is open to any Grade 6-12 student in KZN who want to spend three intensive days exploring the world of musical theatre guided by international musical theatre professionals. Continue reading
KickstArt Theatre Company will be presenting a colourful and faithful adaptation of AA Milne’s classic children’s story, Winnie the Pooh over the July school holidays- and they are looking for children to take part in the show.
Auditions will take place on Saturday, February 27 at the Playhouse Mayville workshops/studios in Ramsay Road, Mayville from 10 am sharp. Continue reading
STEPHEN Sondheim’s iconic musical, Sweeney Todd, opens at the Theatre on the Bay in Cape Town on February 19 following a hugely successful run in Johannesburg.
Presented by Pieter Toerien and KickstArt Theatre Company, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street until April 9. Continue reading
Do you have a fabulous stage production but no venue to present it in? re you looking for a potential partner to assist with the financial costs of staging a drama, musical or dance production? Then this is the opportunity you have been waiting for! Continue reading
Cat Simoni.
DURBAN’S Rhumbelow Theatre in Cunningham Road, Umbilo is hosting a Sunday Soiree Season and this weekend fans of Midlands songbird, Cat Simoni, will be able to hear her perform My London Story! at 2 pm and 6.30pm on Sunday, February 7. Continue reading
Belinda Dolphin and Karen Campbell-Gillies will be bringing the magical music of The Carpenters to life at the Rhumbelow Theatre – Pietermaritzburg at the Allan Wilson Shellhole in Alan Paton Avenue, in A Song For You: A Carpenters Revival. Continue reading
Remember the Seventies? The period of great changes in the music scene, when icons were made, horizons were stretched and musicians broke out of their boxes and went where their dreams (and substances) took them!
Yes. Then revel in a bit of nostalgia when the Hexagon Theatre at the University of KwaZulu-Natal Pietermaritzburg hosts This is the Seventies in the Hexagon Dive on January 29, 30 and 31 and February 4, 5 and 6. Continue reading
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