Business & Arts is a monthly column by Ashraf Johaardien, an award-winning playwright, performer and producer. He is the CEO of Business and Arts South Africa (BASA), and a PhD candidate with the Unit for
NZLEE Productions presents Ashalin Singh in Ashraf Johaardien’s award-winning play Salaam Stories directed by newcomer Niquita Hartley under the mentorship of Standard Bank Young Artist alumna and Naledi Award-winner Jade
The National Arts Festival’s Executive Producer and its Artistic Committee have finalised their selections for the 2018 Festival and shows headed for the Main Programme stages are being announced as
After successful runs at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, 969 Festival and POPart theatre in Joburg, ‘Black’ comes home to Cape Town, 11-17 December 2017, at Alexander Upstairs as
For Women’s Month in August, The Playhouse Company will present its famed South African Women’s Arts Festival (SAWAF). Marking the Company’s twenty-first Festival, the event is themed ‘phenomenal woman’ to
Versatile and exciting young theatre-makers and artists will break new ground and excavate forgotten histories this year in Grahamstown, premiering a number of new works, including a thought-provoking new play
The musical Annie came out tops at the annual Naledi Theatre Awards by garnering four awards, including Best Production of a Musical. Three other highly acclaimed productions, Scorched, Suddenly the
The Arts & Culture Trust (ACT) is inviting nominations for the eagerly awaited 2017 ACT Awards, which are held annually in recognition and celebration of excellence in the arts, culture
Jade Bowers presents the Johannesburg premier of Scorched at the UJ Arts Centre Theatre. From 27 July to 5 August 2016. A production that is hot off the Main Programme at the
This year, a record five South African productions will be represented at the Prague Fringe Festival in the Czech Republic, which takes place Friday 27 May to Saturday 4 June
This year’s Standard Bank Young Artist Award winner for Theatre, Jade Bowers, is set to take the Prague by storm with her production Tin Bucket Drum and represent South African theatre on