From Po to Pierneef, from Dumas to Du Plessis, Letterlik is an exhibition facilitating a lively debate between the predominant spheres of Afrikaans art and Afrikaans ...
WATCHING paint dry ultimately becomes a profound experience in Athol Fugard’s life-affirming new play. By opening tins, singing and executing brush strokes, his ...
Ancient Egypt meets absolutely everything else in this quintessential classic by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber.
OPERA singer Jodie Khan’s potent voice seeps into every inch of the gallery. Responding in real time to her vocal acrobatics is painter Anastasia Pather.
SEVERAL of sculptor Marieke Prinsloo-Rowe’s marble resin children greet the viewer at the entrance to Franschhoek’s Moór Gallery. Mounted on concrete and permanently ...
THE highs and lows of the heteronormative relationship life cycle takes centre stage in Joe DiPietro and Jimmy Roberts’ 1996 musical comedy, I Love You, You’re Perfect, ...
PRESENTING an intoxicating marriage of pulp fiction, film noir and dance theatre, Pulp begins with a hazy dream before transforming into a silent movie where bodies ...
THE ECHO OF A NOISE. Written and performed by Pieter-Dirk Uys. At Theatre on the Bay, Camps Bay from Tuesday to Saturday until June 18 at 8pm. STEYN DU TOIT reviews. ...
REMEMBER. That’s the message pulsating across 34 artworks currently on show at the SA Jewish Museum. Shown as part of a traveling Lithuanian group exhibition named ...
THE blows land thick and fast in the Richard Crowe and Richard Zajdlic’s 1985 classic, A Cock & Bull Story.
LOVE FACTUALLY. Directed by Chris Weare. Written by and starring Alan Committie. At Theatre on the Bay, Tuesday to Friday at 8pm, and Saturday at 5pm and 8pm, until ...
The annual US Woordfees showcase is being staged in Stellenbosch until March 13, promising another series of celebrations and discussions around the arts over the ...
Politics would be funny if it wasn't "so goddamn tragic".
Mother Russia and “die taal” sit down together for koeksusters and vodka under the gaze of Christiaan Olwagen in Die Seemeeu (The Seagull).
AS American author Joan Didion once observed, “we tell ourselves stories in order to live”.
Opening today and running until October 4, among the genres celebrated over the event’s 11 days are theatre, dance, performance art, physical theatre, music, family ...
After previously exploring everything from the music of The Beatles to the songs that make our hearts beat faster around Valentine’s Day, this month sees GrandWest’s ...
THE first thing you’ll notice is her eyes. Penetrating, bright and full of life; Marion Holm’s two striking globular organs of sight are further rounded off by a ...
After brewing for decades, tonight's the night an all-out war will finally break out in the home of George (Marius Weyers) and Martha (Sandra Prinsloo).
To borrow a phrase from the great playwright Shakespeare, all of Grahamstown is currently a stage, and all the men and women merely players on it as part of this ...
All things weird and wonderful are currently being shipped off to the Eastern Cape for the start of the 41st National Arts Festival (NAF) in Grahamstown.
An annual event on the theatre's calendar, this initiative aims to both introduce learners to theatre and live performance, as well as to help them develop the skills ...
Tamarin McGinley's Inherent End tells three stories simultaneously, each one intriguing enough to supply a full play on its own.
While Stellenbosch might currently be crawling with bug-eyed first years who should be sitting in the library instead of on Bohemia's stoep, the Cape Winelands academic ...
Towards the end of last year I interviewed David Kramer about a new musical he was busy putting together.