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
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
Lyle Buxton and Jessica Sole in a scene from KickStArt Theatre Company’s Shrek The Musical. Photo: Val Adamson
Ralph Lawson and Clare Mortimer 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)
Congratulations to all the winners of the 2015 BroadwayWorld South Africa Awards especially Greg King and Stephen Stead of KickStArt Theatre Company, the gifted talent that is Neil Coppen and exceptional actress, Clare Mortimer. Continue reading
WHILE KickStArt Theatre Company walked off with the lion’s share of the prizes at The Mercury Durban Theatre Awards at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre on Monday, November 23, this year’s event also saw a host of new talent picking up awards.
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.
Bob Fox.
Pieter Toerien presents Bob Fox – An evening with the WarHorse Songman at Pieter Toerien’s Montecasino Theatre from August 26 to September 6. One of the United Kingdom’s finest exponents of storytelling through song, Bob is deeply influenced by the working class culture and industrial folk song prevalent in his native County Durham. 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
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