New artistic director for Market Theatre

On 22 May 2013, Kwanele Gumbi, chairman of the Council of the Market Theatre Foundation, announced that James Sibongeleni Ngcobo has accepted his appointment as the next artistic director for the Market Theatre, with effect from 1 September 2013. 24 May 2013 10:03

Triggerfish plans to take on Disney

[Sindy Peters] All part of a 20-year plan, Triggerfish Animation aims to eventually displace Disney, announced the company's CEO Stuart Forrest at yesterday's Net Prophet conference in Cape Town. Laying the animation studio's cards on the table, his talk followed on the inspirational thread that ran through all the talks at the annual event. 24 May 2013 08:15

DStv suspends HD-PVR panel

DStv has decided to suspend temporarily, but with immediate effect, the expanded viewer panel to measure television viewing in High Definition (HD) subscriber homes that was instituted at the end of July 2012. The decision became effective from 14 May 2013 and will be reviewed at a later date. 23 May 2013 09:20

Applications open for Baxter Dance Festival

The annual Baxter Dance Festival is set to showcase Cape Town's dance talent from 3-12 October 2013. Hosted by the Baxter Theatre Centre, the festival has grown noticeably over the nine years that it has featured on Cape Town's events calendar. 23 May 2013 08:39

Twitch takes flight

[Eugene Yiga] Inspiration can strike at any moment. For Robert Fridjhon, whose award-winning stage career spans over twenty years, it came when he worked for FreeMe Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre back in 2006. Given that most of the cases he worked on involved birds, and that he was reading African Genesis by Robert Audrey, it was only a matter of time before the idea for Twitch was born. 20 May 2013 13:40

Action! Camera!

[Brian Berkman] Not often a product comes along that does everything you want it to and then a whole lot more you did not know you wanted. 20 May 2013 07:08

SA's sci-fi siren set to seduce Hollywood

[Andile Ndlovu] HOLLYWOOD, US: A week after her latest novel, The Shining Girls, hit the Sunday Times Bestseller list in the UK, Lauren Beukes began negotiating film rights to the book. 17 May 2013 10:37