After winning the Naledi Theatre Award for Best Production: Dance/Physical Theatre/Ballet for 2020-21, Joburg Ballet is in rehearsal for celebrated choreographer Veronica Paeper’s La Traviata – The Ballet. Last staged
Joburg Ballet kicks off the company’s 21st Anniversary year with Evolve, a celebration of dance to be presented for eight performances at the Joburg Theatre from 25 March – 3
It seems as if 2022 is off to a good start for the arts and we like to think that this will be the year that South African theatre returns
Update 6 December 2021: Due to rising Covid-19 infection rates, the Joburg Theatre has announced the suspension of all scheduled performances of its pantomime Cinderella. Director Janice Honeyman is set
As theatres and performing arts venues across the country begin to open their doors to audiences once more, the Joburg Theatre welcomes audiences back to its Mandela Theatre this Thursday
The Head & the Load at Joburg Theatre supported by RMB and FNB and in partnership with the City of Johannesburg, with music composed and conceived by Philip Miller and
Following the success of Cion: Requiem of Ravel’s Boléro at Joburg Theatre, Vuyani Dance Theatre returns to Johannesburg for the annual Vuyani Week to close off their twentieth-anniversary celebrations. Newtown-based
With only two months to go until the opening of this year’s pantomime, producers Joburg Theatre and Bernard Jay are excited to present the GIANT of all pantomimes, Jack and
What makes a classic a classic? In the case of the ballet Giselle, it is several things, a range of characteristics and qualities that come together to create a work
Journey Beyond – Symphonic Circus is an extraordinary artistic collaboration between Zip Zap Circus and the Johannesburg Youth Orchestra. After two immensely successful runs in Cape Town in 2017 and
After an absence of three-and-a-half years, Giselle, the most sublime of all romantic ballets, returns to the stage of Joburg Theatre when Joburg Ballet presents a season of ten performances
Vuyani Dance Theatre’s Cion: Requiem of Ravel’s Boléro returns to Johannesburg for a ten-day season at The Mandela at Joburg Theatre from 5 September until 15 September 2019. Accompanied by
Joburg Theatre, in partnership with Keeloz Global Entertainment, will be restaging the internationally acclaimed Broadway hit musical Sarafina!. Directed by Nhlanhla Ngema and starring Noxolo Dlamini as Sarafina, it will
The global success of the Marvel movie Black Panther placed Africa at the epicentre of contemporary popular culture. Keke Chele spoke to Joburg Ballet’s Senior Soloist Kitty Phetla, who was
Joburg Ballet brings a spark and crackle to mid-winter with four sleekly neo-classical ballets at Joburg Theatre from 5 to 14 July. In a glittering collection of works collectively entitled
Sempre Opera will be staging one of the most popular operas of all time, the heart-breaking, yet beloved classic, Giuseppe Verdi’s La traviata from 22 June 2019 on the Mandela
Get ready for a musical adventure of a lifetime! Jill Girard and Keith Smith are delighted to bring to life for the very first time on stage at The Peoples Theatre,
Joburg Theatre and producer Bernard Jay are proud to announce the ‘bon voyage’ season of the musical The Color Purple. It will return to Joburg Theatre’s The Mandela stage prior
12 April 2019 will bring with it the dawn of a new era. Vusi Nova and Ntsika present a masterclass in Afro-soul that will change everything we thought we knew.
The first-ever Joburg City Theatres Schools Setworks Festival will kick off at Soweto Theatre from 7 to 17 March 2019 and continue to Joburg Theatre from 23 April to 5
2019 marks 20 years of Vuyani Dance Theatre (VDT), which will be celebrated through the campaign #Vuyani20. VDT is the only full-time, black-founded dance and theatre institution and company to
Frank Sinatra, one of music’s great icons, is all set to ignite the South African stage in 2019 in a dazzling big band international show, Sinatra and Me, featuring celebrated
Jill Girard and Keith Smith are delighted to get this 2019 Children’s Theatre year at The People’s Theatre underway with a bang, bringing children, parents and all those with a
A classic fairytale of evil defeated and love triumphant, Joburg Ballet opens its 2019 season with a new production of The Sleeping Beauty, staged for the company by former British
Popular comedian Marc Lottering’s most beloved alter ego, Aunty Merle Abrahams, sashays onto the stage for the first time in Johannesburg with Aunty Merle, The Musical from 1 February to
With the festive season approaching and the unavoidable shopping, traffic and rush looming in our minds, we need to take a break, recoup and fill our hearts with joy! What