The Hope Project SA is a non-profit organisation that's building a community creating job opportunities and relief for artists and crew members who find themselves in dire financial trouble during our current economic climate...
Evan-Lee Courie 27 May 2020
Marketing manager of the well-loved Baxter Theatre in Cape Town, Fahiem Stellenboom, shares his Lockdown Lessons and how the Baxter and the SA theatre and arts industry, in general, is navigating and responding to the negative effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent nationwide lockdown...
Ruth Cooper 15 May 2020
If you are looking for world-class entertainment in the comfort and safety of your house during the lockdown, you can indulge in daily free streamings from the National Theatre in London and the Met Opera in New York...
Daniel Dercksen 8 May 2020
General manager and producer of the iconic The Fugard Theatre in Cape Town, Lamees Albertus, shares her #LockdownLessons, how The Fugard and the SA theatre and arts industry, in general, is navigating and responding to the negative effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent nationwide lockdown...
Ruth Cooper 7 May 2020
The National Arts Festival will move into the digital realm and for the first time ever go fully virtual. We chatted to National Arts Festival CEO Monica Newton to find out how exactly this new virtual format will play out, the opportunities of targeting a wider audience and how creatives can try and combat the negative effects of the Covid-19 crisis...
Ruth Cooper 31 Mar 2020
As of 1 March 2020, Lamees Albertus will assume the role of general manager and producer of the iconic The Fugard Theatre in Cape Town. We got in touch to chat about her new promotion, plans for The Fugard and supporting the arts...
Ruth Cooper 20 Feb 2020
This past weekend was one of sheer inspiration, witnessing the unique and lasting contribution Rolex is making to culture and the arts by promoting the transmission of knowledge across generations...
Ann Nurock 13 Feb 2020
Somewhere between live streaming, Netflix and adulthood, I think I forgot how to be entertained. Not just distracted but truly entertained. Until Peter Pan on Ice, that is...
Taryn Springhall 4 Feb 2020
Earlier this month, it was announced that Monica Newton would be taking up the role of the new National Arts Festival CEO. We got in touch with her to chat about the evolution of the festival, future plans and how the arts can transform and uplift...
Ruth Cooper 19 Dec 2019
Richard O'Brien's Rocky Horror Show, currently on at the Artscape Theatre and soon to be moving to Teatro, Montecasino, is the best version of the production we have seen yet says Debbie Hathway...
Debbie Hathway 18 Dec 2019
A refreshing alternative to The Nutcracker, traditionally staged at this time of year, A Christmas Carol - The Story of Scrooge was brand new for many of us in the opening night audience who remained captivated by the on-stage action throughout...
Debbie Hathway 17 Dec 2019
Infecting the City is in full swing in Cape Town city's open spaces and frequently used pedestrian routes. On Tuesday, outside Iziko South African Museum, two events were unfolding simultaneously...
Michael Britton 21 Nov 2019
I saw Vaslav recently and came out of the theatre disturbed and saddened. Not by the performance of Godfrey Johnson, his portrayal of Vaslav Nijinsky or by any other aspect of the production.
Michael Britton 14 Nov 2019
Cape Town City Ballet's (CTCB) much-anticipated production of Sleeping Beauty opened to a full house at the Artscape Opera House in Cape Town at the weekend...
Debbie Hathway 19 Aug 2019
Here's to You honours the work of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel at Theatre On The Bay until 17 August 2019 with a programme of well-loved and lesser-known songs...
Debbie Hathway 15 Aug 2019
Fuelled from the start by producer Harley Medcalf's vision and the enormous talents of directors and choreographers Burn the Floor has delighted fans of the ballroom and Latin-American dance genres since 1999...
Debbie Hathway 14 Aug 2019
Following the adaptation of Paul Gallico's Snow Goose, which played to sold-out houses in April this year, Contagious Theatre is back at the Fugard Studio with the adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's masterpiece The Old Man and the Sea...
Terry Levin 5 Aug 2019
Figure Of 8 Dance Collective's Wag (Waiting) is currently on at the Baxter Theatre in Cape Town...
Debbie Hathway 12 Jul 2019
Eric Abraham and the Fugard Theatre's production of Kinky Boots is a fast-paced, stiletto-strutting campy romp with a whole lot of heart at its core and a sweet message at the forefront...
Ruth Cooper 28 Jun 2019
Because I don't see the point in writing about something without passion and honesty, it was with equal parts excitement and trepidation that I prepared for the much-anticipated opening night of Amaranth, the first triple bill presented by Cape Town City Ballet under new CEO Debbie Turner...
Debbie Hathway 25 Jun 2019
Dance fans are in for a treat when Cape Town City Ballet's Amaranth opens on Saturday, 22 June 2019. We talk to choreographer Christopher L Huggins about his work included in the triple bill...
Debbie Hathway 20 Jun 2019
Following the 2019 premiere at the Royal Shakespeare Company's Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, Kunene and the King opened in Cape Town at the Fugard Theatre on 30 April 2019...
Terry Levin 6 May 2019
The South African production of the ever-popular award-winning Broadway and West End musical hit Chicago is currently razzle-dazzling at the Artscape in Cape Town till the 14 April, before shimmying on over to Montecasino's Teatro in Johannesburg from 20 April to 26 May 2019...
Ruth Cooper 22 Mar 2019
Award-winning and celebrated stand-up comedian, actor, writer and film director, Kagiso Lediga, took to the stage on Day 2...
Angie White 1 Mar 2019
Growing up in the apartheid era my experience had been mainly classical ballet and modern dance and I had seldom seen dancers of colour performing anything other than traditional dance...
Debbie Hathway 21 Jan 2019
Stand-up comedian Nik Rabinowitz is known for his clever wit and fast-paced routines. And so it was when we went to watch his latest show, Dry White currently showing at the Baxter until 12 January...
Juanita Pienaar 7 Jan 2019
Debbie Hathway reviews Langarm - produced and presented by Eric Abraham and The Fugard Theatre, written and directed by David Kramer, with musical arrangements by Charl-Johan Lingenfelder, and choreographed by Grant van Ster...
Debbie Hathway 24 Dec 2018
Debbie Hathway reviews A Tribute to Mignon Furman, presented by Gilbert Mayer, star of the Paris Opera Ballet at the Artscape Theatre...
Debbie Hathway 23 Nov 2018
American actor and stand-up comedian Chris Tucker toured South Africa last week with his new comedy show. Juanita Pienaar attended the Cape Town event and shares what she enjoyed most...
Juanita Pienaar 14 Nov 2018
Debbie Hathway reports on the impactful and recently concluded 14th annual Baxter Dance Festival curated by artistic director Nicolette Moses...
Debbie Hathway 15 Oct 2018
