Guy Willoughby
latest news & developmentsA rich musical feast
<i>Love and Green Onions</i> is a rich musical feast enlivened by great performances and some fine, infectious songs, writes Guy Willoughby.
Nuzzle on your tongue
‘Stamp collecting is a passion South Africans refuse to grow out of’, writes Stephen Gray.
Front-rankers wank in the front row
Now in its fifth year, this hugely successful funny-folk festival has made marvellous strides, writes Guy Willoughby.
Zippin’ up his boots
Accompanied by a group of unsung folk musicians, David Kramer has gone back to his roots, writes Guy Willoughby.
The music of Fugard
Athol Fugard’s <i>Valley Song</i> has been set to music by composer Thomas Rajna, writes Guy Willoughby, the instigator of the project.
African magic
Nelson Mandela’s favourite tales come alive on stage, thanks to Janice Honeyman’s obsessive inclinations, writes Guy Willoughby.
Bristling energy
<i>At Her Feet</i> is a brilliant, precocious theatrical achievement — that doesn’t know when to stop, writes Guy Willoughby.
Opera in hell
Opera in South Africa — and in Cape Town in particular — stands at a critical but exciting crossroads, writes . As Cape Town Opera CEO Angelo Gobbato recently remarked, with…
Fact, fiction, friction
Cape Town may be buzzing with culture, but it needs effective marketing, writes Guy Willoughby
Play it again,Santa
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Loud outsider
British writer-actor-director Steven Berk-off, who created such thrilling stage masterpieces as Decadence, Greek and East, brings his galvanic energy to Cape Town this week in…
States of unease
<b>Review:</b> <i>The Shades</i> by Ashraf Jamal (Brevitas)
Music, memory, myth
The dockside slum — largely owned by white landowners — was, until the 1960s, the site of creative, exciting inter-racial and interfaith harmony, which was destroyed by apartheid…
The only gay Eskimo
One of the hottest sensations at this year’s Smirnoff International Comedy Festival at the Baxter Theatre has to be Canada’s Phil Nicol, whose madcap antics in the Danger Zone…
Not so great dictator
The spectacle of the World Summit seems to dwarf the footling efforts of mere artists. But the power of theatre was vividly demonstrated in Cape Town last week when Nobel…