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Promusica Sunday Concerts The Promusica Theatre is hosting a series of Sunday concerts, featuring a selection of South Africa's top instrumentalists and singers. Read more

The Jungle Book Join Mowgli and his lovable friends in the Peoples Theatre production of The Jungle Book, a time-tested tale of bravery and inner strength that bursts onto stage. From March 8 to April 18 at The Peoples Theatre. Read more

Wheel of Life From the Shaolin temple in China's Henan province the fabled 'Shaolin Monks' are making an exciting return to South Africa to demonstrate their authentic martial arts expertise in an awe-inspiring performance at Montecasino from March 9 to 22. Read more

Like Cain and Abel Thapelo Motloung's thought-provoking play explores the labels and prejudices that gay and bisexual people are subjected to in day-to-day life, with an underlying message of acceptance, understanding and tolerance of those perceived as "different". At the Windybrow from March 10. Read more

Celebrating SADC Women in Theatre and Dance Festival Are women still being sidelined in the arts? Debate and entertainment top the agenda at the festival being held from 9 to 13 March 2010 at Newtown's Market Theatre Laboratory. Showcasing an array of dance and theatre items from across the region, as well as workshops, the festival promises to elicit robust debate around the status of women in the performing arts. It is being held to coincide with International Women's Day on 8 March.  Read more

The Musicals Unplugged The stars of CATS, Angela Kilian and Robert Finlayson, are two of South Africa's most celebrated and prolific Musical Theatre performers, with a wealth of national and international experience. In this production, Angela and Robert, accompanied by Wessel Odendaal on piano, create an intimate mood, singing their most cherished songs and sharing anecdotes from their careers including some of the action behind the glamour of the lights, backdrops and high-tech scene-changes.  From March 11 at the Montecasino. Read more

Viola! Tobie Cronjé, Lizz Meiring and Terence Bridgett star in the baroque romp set in the Seventeenth century, in the Versailles court of France's King Louis XIV. This darkly comic thriller takes us back to a time when prim and proper propriety ruled the day, the arts flowered and palace conspiracies lurked around every corner. At the State Theatre from March 11. Read more

Somebody to love - The legendary music of QUEEN performed by singers and musicians who will be performing on stage with the dancers showcases a sleek, seductive celebration of love featuring the applauded dancers of Mzansi Productions. From March 11 at Montecasino. Read more

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Master Harold and the boys A major new production of an important piece of world-acclaimed S.A. dramatic literature, Master Harold…and the Boys, will be seen for the first time in a decade again at the Theatre on the Square from March 16.  Read more

Grease It's the original High-School musical, featuring all the unforgettable songs. Voted the "No 1 Greatest Musical", Grease has proved that a musical love story, bursting with denim, cheerleaders, slick hairstyles, rock'n'roll, teenage angst and young romance is timeless and universal. At the Teatro at Montecasino from April 17. Read more

Stomp From a single drum, hanging around Luke Cresswell's neck back in 1991, STOMP has taken on a life of its own. In much the same way that rubber hosing, Zippo lighters, plastic bags, bin lids and, yes, even the kitchen sink do, in this multi-award winning theatrical phenomenon. From March 23 at Teatro at Montecasino. Read more

Death of a Colonialist Greg latter, writer of the films Forgiveness and Goodbye Bafana, returns to his theatrical roots with this powerhouse drama about a disintegrating white academic family in Grahamstown. At the Market Theatre from March 23. Read more


Mile High With Cathy Specific Having recently jetted around the country Brendan van Rhyn and company return to Gauteng with this hilarious musical comedy revue at the Little Theatre at Unisa in Pretoria from 7 to 24 April 2010, before heading to the Fringe Theatre at the Joburg Theatre complex from 28 April to 29 May.  Read more

Sisters in Song A feel-good musical celebrating the music of the greatest pop divas in the world.  Sisters in Song presents some of South Africa's best female talent performing tracks from simply the best pop divas - from Beyonce, Rihanna to Aretha Franklin and Tina Turner. Producer Hazel Feldman and Director Carlo Spettu have once again pulled out all the stops to create a glamorous, exciting and memorable production. From April 14. Read more

JPO Symphony Season During the JPO's second symphony season in  from 5 May to 10 June, the orchestra will repeat three of its concerts, again featuring the cream of European and South African conductors and soloists, at the State Theatre, Pretoria. Read more




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Foreplay - We follow a series of ten interconnected love scenes, brought from 1890s Vienna into the vivid and distinctive world of Paul Grootboom's South Africa in 2008 at the Market Theatre until March 14. Read more. 

Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris The second musical of the 2010 season at Sandton's Old Mutual Theatre on the Square is a long awaited revival of the 1970's smash hit - the longest running musical revue in South African history until March 13. Read more

The JPO Symphony Season It offers audiences a varied bouquet of music delights as well as exceptional local and international soloists. The concerts are held on Wednesday and Thursday evenings at the Linder Auditorium Until March 18.Read more

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Stars sparkle at 7th Naledi Theatre Awards
History was made at the 7th annual Naledi Theatre Awards on Sunday when one actress - Louise Saint-Claire - walked off with two acting awards for two different productions.
The star-studded awards ceremony at the State Theatre in Pretoria, which celebrates the best in Gauteng theatre, saw the versatile actress win the award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Lead Role for the play God of Carnage, as well as Best Comedy Performance (Female) for Pterodactyls. Saint-Claire had been nominated in an unprecedented five categories for her various standout performances throughout the past year.
The remainder of the prizes were shared out fairly evenly among various productions, with no outright winner sweeping the boards. Two polar opposite productions - Janice Honeyman and Bernard Jay's much-lauded pantomime Pinocchio and Mpumelelo Paul Grootboom's gritty adults-only play Foreplay - each received three awards on the night.
Grootboom was named Best Director, while Koketso Mojela was hailed as Best Supporting Actress and Israel Bereta awarded for Best Original Choreography. For Pinocchio, Sibusiso Radebe, who delighted audiences as the little wooden puppet, received the Naledi for Best Performance in a Musical (Male), with the production itself being named Best Musical and Timothy le Roux's turn as the dame earning him Best Comedy Performance (Male) laurels.
Other big winners on the night included John Kani, whose revival of his powerful self-penned drama Nothing But the Truth earned the kudos for Best Production of a Straight Play, with Kani also scooping the award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Lead Role. The Lion and the Lamb, also with Kani at the helm, saw Margaret Motsage and Nokukhanya Dlamini sharing the award for Best Performance in a Musical (Female).
Mike van Graan's gripping Brothers in Blood was singled out as the Best New South African Play Produced, and also earned Denis Hutchinson the Best Theatre Lighting Design trophy.
The hilarious Travels with my Aunt, produced by Pieter Toerien and directed by Alan Swerdlow, won the judges over in the Best Ensemble/Cutting-Edge Production category, with Theo Landey clinching the accolade for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role.
The Market Theatre's Brer Rabbit hopped off with awards for costume and set design for Noluthando Lobese and Jenny-Lee Crew respectively, with Mark Malherbe earning deserved praise for his sound design in Cats.
Bryan Schimmel took home the honours for Best Musical Director for Richard Loring's Knights of Music, and the talented Mwenya Kabwe, who burst onto the theatre scene with a bang in Yellow Man, was recognised with the award for Best Performance by a Newcomer/Breakthrough.
The newly reintroduced Best Production of a Play/Musical for Children category saw Joyce Levinsohn's National Children's Theatre production of Seussical Jnr emerging victorious, with the Best Community Theatre Production award going to Sekwatlapa, written and directed by Marlon Khoza.
Lifetime Achievement Awards were presented to music icon Hugh Masekela, veteran actor Tobie Cronjé and consummate entertainer and producer Richard Loring. Daphne Kuhn, the passionate, hands-on owner of the Old Mutual Theatre on the Square in Sandton, received the Executive Director's Award on the night.

For more information, visit www.naleditheatreawards.co.za.





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