Celebrate music’s one-hit wonders at the Hexagon Dive

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Daniel Rossouw, Katherine McClelland, Sandra Styles, Tammy Calder and Ryan Calder star in ‘One Hit Wonderful’ at the Hexagon Dive Theatre.

DO you remember Carl Perkins, Jeannie C Riley, Kim Carnes, Eddie Holman, The BodyRockers…? No, well join the club. Most people don’t them but they did have a number one hit that rocked the world.

On Friday, December 9, Saturday, December 10, Thursday, December 15, Friday, December 16 and Saturday, December 17, Daniel Rossouw, Katherine McClelland, Sandra Styles, Tammy Calder and Ryan Calder will celebrate these hitmakers in the show One Hit Wonderful at the Hexagon Dive theatre at the University of KwaZulu-Natal Pietermaritzburg. Continue reading

Jonathan Cohen stars in the tragi-comedy, ‘White Christmas’, at the Hexagon Theatre in Pietermaritzburg

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Jonathan Cohen in White Christmas. Photo: Val Adamson

THE multi-Durban Theatre Award-nominated tragi-comedy, White Christmas, is being staged at the Hexagon Theatre on the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Pietermaritzburg campus, for one performance only on Saturday, December 3 at 7.30 pm.  ESTELLE SINKINS speaks to its star Jonathan Cohen. Continue reading

Check out all the nominees in the 2016 The Mercury Durban Theatre Awards

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The cast of KickStArt Theatre Company’s Into the Woods which is running at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre in Durban. Photo: Val Adamson

KickStArt Theatre Company has been rewarded with 54 nominations in this year’s The Mercury Durban Theatre Awards. The ceremony will be staged at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre on the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Howard College campus at 7.30pm on Monday, November 21. Continue reading

Voices from around the world to attend Durban’s Poetry Africa

 

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Professor Mazisi Kunene. Photo: Kunene Foundation

THE Centre for Creative Arts (CCA), within the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s College of Humanities will host the 20th Poetry Africa International Festival from October 10 to 15.

Arguably the largest and longest-running poetry festival in Africa, Poetry Africa has, over the years, hosted a wide variety of internationally-acclaimed poetic voices from all over the world. Continue reading