Roxie Hart (Jessica Sole, left) and Velma Kelly (Katy Moore) make a dynamite double act in KickStArt Theatre Company’s ‘Chicago’. Photo: Val Adamson
ESTELLE SINKINS review’s KickStArt Theatre Company’s Chicago, which is at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre in Durban until April 30. Continue reading
Get ready to be Razzle Dazzled by (from left) Katy Moore, Jessica Sole and Charon Williams-Ros in KickStArt Theatre Company’s ‘Chicago’. Photo: Val Adamson
Some of Durban’s top musicians will be performing live for every performance of KickstArt’s high-kicking razzle-dazzle, Kander and Ebb musical, Chicago, which is at the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre until April 30. Continue reading
Clare Mortimer and Ralph Lawson in A Voice I Cannot Silence at the 2015 National Arts Festival in Grahamstown. The play, directed by Greg Homann, is based on the life, stories and poems of Alan Paton. (Photo: CuePix/Sithasolwazi Kentane)
THE nominees for the Naledi Awards 2016 – which will take place at the Lyric Theatre in Johannesburg on April 19 – have been revealed and according to executive director, Dawn Lindberg, the standard has never been higher.
Several Durbanites are in the running for this year’s awards including KickStArt Theatre Company’s Steven Stead for Sweeney Todd and Little Shop of Horrors, Greg King, Tina le Roux, Neil Stuart Harris, Charon Williams-Ros for Sweeney Todd, Caroline Smart for Hinterland and Clare Mortimer and Menzi Mkhwane for A Voice I Cannot Silence.
Short, Stories, Alive, the Nobulali Productions show, directed by former Durban resident, Neil Coppen, is also nominated; as is former Durban actress Janna Ramos-Violante, who gets a nomination for her work in Doubt. 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
Jonathan Roxmouth stars in Sweeney Todd.
Pieter Toerien and KickstArt present Steven Sondheim’s iconic musical thriller Sweeney Todd – The Demon Barber of Fleet Street at Pieter Toerien’s Montecasino Theatre until November 29.
This dark 1979 Tony Award-winner for best musical features music and lyrics by Sondheim and is based on the 1973 play Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street by Christopher Bond.
The story centres on Sweeney Todd, whose real name is Benjamin Barker. He uses his new alias to resume work in his barber shop above Mrs. Lovett’s struggling pie shop after being wrongfully sentenced to life imprisonment by the corrupt Judge Turpin.
After swearing vengeance against the judge that tore his family apart, Todd and Lovett plot a unique plan that helps them both and leads them down a dangerous, thrilling path with deadly consequences.
Featuring sublime theatrics, a thrilling, chilling story, suspense, passion, deliciously dark humour, with a score and lyrics that have taken on iconic status, directed and designed by the award-winning KickstArt team of Steven Stead and Greg King, and starring Jonathan Roxmouth and Charon Williams-Ros, it doesn’t get any better than Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd!
Tickets cost R350, R250, R150 and R100. Booking is through Computicket at 011 340 8000 or Theatre Box Office at 011 511 1818.
Performances: Wednesday to Friday at 8 pm, Saturday at 4 pm and 8 pm, and Sunday at 3 pm.
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