SEAN Bovim’s Romeo’s Kiss will be performed in the Playhouse Drama Theatre from May 12 to 15 as part of the Playhouse Company’s New Stages season.
Choreographed by Sean the work features the dancers of the Playhouse Dance Residency and Bovim Ballet. Continue reading
Sindiwe Magona, who recently released the book Chasing the Tails of My Father’s Cattle. Photo: Supplied
CELEBRATED author, Sindiwe Magona, has urged young African people to honour their heritage by continuing to speak their mother tongues.
Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Photo: Johan Persson
IF you love watching the National Theatre Live broadcasts then you can’t afford to miss the latest offering in the series, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, which is being screened at Cinema Nouveau theatres in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban and Cape Town.
Filmed live at the Donmar Warehouse in London there will be four screenings only on Saturday, March 5 at 7.30pm. Sunday, March 6 at 2.30 pm, Wednesday, March 9 at 7.30 pm and Thursday, March 6 at 7.30 pm. Continue reading
Ekaterina Krysanova and Vladislav Lantratov in Jean-Christophe Maillot’s Taming of the Shrew.
The Taming of the Shrew will be screened at 11 am on March 6 as part of the Fugard Bioscope World Arts Season.
French choreographer Jean-Christophe Maillot has adapted Shakespeare’s comedy specifically to the Bolshoi Ballet dancers, and achieves a magnetic two hours of breathtaking, nonstop dance unlike any other.
The story revolves around Bianca. Many suitors dream of marrying the lovely and docile lady, including Lucentio. However her father will not let anyone marry her before her elder sister, the ill-tempered shrew Katherina, is herself married.
Tickets for the screening at the Fugard Theatre are R100. The show is two hours and 10 minutes long.
Otello
The 2015/16 Live in HD season from The Metropolitan Opera in New York returned to South African screens in October. The second opera in the season is a new production of Verdi’s Otello.
It releases at Cinema Nouveau and select Ster-Kinekor cinemas on Saturday, November 14 for a limited season. Conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, this is a new staging by Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher of the Verdi masterpiece based on Shakespeare’s tragic drama of jealousy and deceit. Continue reading
Siwela Sonke Dance Theatre presents Qaphela Caesar! at the State Theatre.
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. Julius Caesar – the Roman dictator who was assassinated – is making his way to the State Theatre this month. Well, sort of. Continue reading
Production posters around Grahamstown. Photo: Cuepix/Louisa Feiter
The National Arts Festival (NAF) in Grahamstown is calling for proposals for the 2016 Main programme which runs from June 30 to July 10, 2016. Continue reading
Students of the Department of Performing Arts (Vocal Art) at Tshwane University of Technology will perform Verdi’s Falstaff in the Breytenbach Theatre. The underlying theme of the opera is that in life, we are all fools and he who laughs last, laughs best. Continue reading
A Winter’s Tale, the latest offering in a season of five famous ballets from The Royal Ballet company will be screened at Cinema Nouveau theatres from August 8. Continue reading
A grand production of the musical West Side Story, opens at the Artscape Opera House on July 23. Presented at Artscape by Eric Abraham and the Fugard Theatre, West Side Story, is the musical masterpiece created by Leonard Bernstein, Arthur Laurents and Stephen Sondheim based on an original conception of Jerome Robbins. Continue reading
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