Chiwetel Ejiofor stars in Everyman.Photo: Richard Hubert-Smith.
BAFTA winner and Academy Award nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave) takes the title role in EVERYMAN, a dynamic new production of one of English drama’s oldest plays, directed by the National Theatre’s new director Rufus Norris (Broken, London Road). Continue reading
Conrad Koch and Chester Missing.
The prestigious annual Naledi Theatre Awards, which were held in Johannesburg on April 14, will be screened on SABC3 on Saturday, August 22, at 10.30 pm, with a repeat broadcast on Tuesday, August 25 at 10 pm. The 90-minute show highlights the best of the best in South African theatre productions staged in 2014. Continue reading
Let laughter warm you up this winter at Joburg Theatre with Sister Act, The Full Morty and Riaad Moosa. Continue reading
Animal Farm
ShakeXperience, in association with the Market Theatre, is staging George Orwell’s inspired allegory novel Animal Farm from August 25 to September 6. The sickening reality of the corruption of power and the disintegration of high ideals is brought home in the unique South African adaptation by Neil Coppen’s award-winning adaptation of the timeless novel. Continue reading
Nicholas Pauling as Brian Epstein and Sven Ruygrok as “This Boy”.
Epstein: The Man Who Made The Beatles, starring Nicholas Pauling as Brian Epstein and Sven Ruygrok, from the movie Spud, as This Boy, is being staged at the Studio Theatre at Montecasino until September 27. Continue reading
Matshediso Mokoteli in Fruit. Photo: Fahiem Stellenboom
THE best production of the 2015 Zabalaza Theatre Festival, the innovative one-hander Fruit, is being staged at the Baxter Masambe Theatre in Cape Town at 7 pm nightly until August 29. Continue reading
As South Africa celebrates Women’s Month this August, the National Arts Council (NAC) continues to empower a wide range of women working in all aspects of the creative industries nationwide. Of the R17 million awarded by the NAC this year, over one-third went to women-led projects in the fields of theatre, dance, music, visual arts, craft, literature and multi-discipline. Continue reading
ASSITEJ South Africa has partnered with the Northern Cape Arts and Culture Council (NCACC) to host the ASSITEJ SA Theatre4Youth Forum in Kimberley. Continue reading
Atandwa Kani and Mncedisi Shabangu in Sizwe Banzi Is Dead. Photo: Ruphin Coudyzer
Sizwe Banzi is Dead, directed by John Kani, and starring Mncedisi Shabangu and Atandwa Kani, can be seen at the Baxter Theatre in Cape Town this August and September, following its successful in the United States earlier this year.
Fresh from the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, Tin Bucket Drum comes to the University of Johannesburg’s Con Cowan Theatre. The show starring Warona Seane and Matthew MacFarlane can be seen from August 11 to 22. Continue reading
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