Cadre’s struggle with tragedy
It is not often that one hears the term 'protest theatre' these days, but the production 'Cadre' provides a fitting enough justification for using it.
National Arts Festival 2013: A unified voice
The National Arts Festival, due to be held at the end of June, has released details of its 2013 programme.
Live fast, dye young
Cindy Swanepoel plays an unrepentant ÂJoubert Park junkie in the reworking of Sue Pam-Grant’s play Curl Up and Dye.
UK musical centres on Breivik's Norway killings
One of Britain's acclaimed writers for the stage, David Greig, has created a musical based on the murders in Norway committed by Anders Breivik.
Two's company: Friends and rivals set the stage alight
It looks as though the stage that was for long John Kani's has grown a foot wider to accommodate his son and his peers, writes Percy Zvomuya.
Paper play, not paper dreams
Jo'burg's street vibe meets Japanese street theatre in the quirky world of storyteller and actor Jemma Kahn.
2012: A year on stage
Nik Rabinowitz, Sylvaine Strike, Zakes Mda and other personalities from the world of the performing arts share their highlights from the year.
[Video] Traversing the city's spine through art
From minibus taxis to the Gautrain, the Goethe Institute's SPINES festival explores public and private spaces in Jo'burg.
Nothing stingy about this vision
An English adaptation of a French theatre staple is causing a stir in Jo'burg --- and has been invited to be showcased in Paris.
Blazing new directions in drama
Brett Bailey reveals the thinking behind his site-specific interpretations of the ancient Greek tragedy Medea for European audiences.
[Video] Q&A: The French-South African season
The M&G chats to Laurent Clavel of the French Season in South Africa 2012 which sees collaboration in theatre, music and other arts.
Theatre behind bars
An exciting theatre project encourages prison inmates to to creatively explore their personal quests for redemption.
Ah oui, the French are coming
South Africa and France are set to share cutting-edge artwork in a bilateral exchange spanning two years.
A different kind of love
A seductive production from the United States uses a brotherly relationship to highlight race and class themes with universal appeal.
Curtain up for Soweto's new theatre
It is red, yellow and blue --- and set to add a splash of colour to Johannesburg's performing arts scene.
[Video] Soweto Theatre: A dream realised
The R150-million Soweto Theatre complex opens this week and forms part of an ambitious development plan to revive Soweto's cultural life.
The Soweto Theatre: Making theatre matter again
Soweto has long been a cosmopolitan centre of political and artistic life. The new Soweto Theatre complex is part of an ambitious redevelopment plan.
All the world's a stage for SA pupils
South African pupils have joined drama students from schools on three continents, brought together via the internet to produce each other's plays.
Daring historical epic rewritten for Market stage
Abnormal Loads is set in that quintessentially tragic South African place in which the personal and the national intersect.
[Video] Yesterday's protest theatre, today
The Market Theatre's artistic director, Malcolm Purkey, talks about the new theatre season, with historical protest plays Woza Albert!.
