Market Theatre Special Offer The Market Theatre now offers a dinner package for their loyal patrons. For only R120 you can book for any production of your choice at the Market Theatre and a meal at The Market Bar and Bistro, the restaurant inside the Market Theatre complex. Bookings for the dinner package close at […]
Read More »Picks of the Week The highlight has to be ‘The concert’ on 13th Feb. For those like me without tickets, eat your hearts out that you’ll be missing the event of the year – U2 on Sunday night at Soccer City stadium. For the adrenalin junkies the Orlando Cooling Towers in Soweto is open for […]
Read More »Madame Singara’s and Cirque de Soleil If you did not get Madame Zingara’s the first time around now is your chance as the show has now been extended at Melrose Arch until 14th May. Fab show – not to be missed. Madame Zingara’s Theatre of Dreams is housed in an 80-year-old Spiegelpaleis called Victoria. Audiences […]
Read More »Andrew Buckland returns I remember seeing this play decades ago and was completely bowled over by Buckland’s consummate stage presence and acting ability. It has stuck vividly in mind and I will certainly be going to see the return along with two other one-man plays. Janet Buckland directs all three plays – The Ugly Noo […]
Read More »Wonderful musical: Songs of Migration Songs of Migration, a musical tribute to the great songs of migrants across the African continent, has been created by trumpeter, composer and lyricist Hugh Masekela and written and directed by award-winning director James Ngcobo. It features the multi-talented and soulful Sibongile Khumalo. During the late 19th century, indigenous people […]
Read More »The Slap Koejawel at Arts on Main Having been to a music event at Arts on Main with friends we dropped in to have a drink nextdoor at a bar/coffee shop/informal makeshift theatre. Happily our visit co-incided with the first showing of The slap koejawel’ . See http://www.lizatlancaster.co.za/blog/talk-the-talk-a-z-of-south-african-slang Very very funny – clever, well scripted and acted, […]
Read More »Jazz this weekend Regular Friday gigs include the Radium (Louis Botha Avenue, Orange Grove) with Jazz Trio featuring Stephen Kunny Friday 5 Nov from 8pm, as well as Soweto Jazz & Blues at The Whiteboy Shebeen (Cnr Katherine & Grayston, Sandton), Friday 5th Nov from 7pm. Free entry Also on: Jazz at Joburg Theatre with […]
Read More »Live HD screening of the NY Met Opera Season Opening today with Das Rheingold, the first in Richard Wagner’s epic four-part Ring cycle, the Live in HD season closes in mid June 2011 with The Valkyri, the second in Wagner’s Ring cycle. The new production of Das Rheingold is conducted by James Levine and directed by Robert […]
Read More »Craig Higginson’s new play at the Market Theatre The Girl with the Yellow Dress opened at the Market Theatre on 18th October and runs till 21st November. The play, written by Craig Higginson and directed by Malcolm Purkey, had sold-out seasons at both the Baxter Theatre in Cape Town and the Traverse Theatre for the duration of the […]
Read More »Wonderful Jazz Offerings during November Feya Faku – 6 Nov Trumpet/flugel horn player Feya Faku was born in New Brighton, Port Elizabeth. He studied informally with some of the great jazzmen of the sixties and seventies. Feya has travelled the world collaborating and making music with some of the greatest musicians in the jazz world. […]
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