Apr 2, 2025 | ARTicle
With The White Lotus streaming on Showmax, Jim Halterman caught up with creator Mike White to find out more about writing, directing and executive producing the hit HBO show, which has won 15 Emmys so far and has already been renewed for a fourth season. Why Thailand...
Mar 1, 2025 | ARTicle
By ROZ ELS Stand-up comedian Schalk Bezuidenhout took on his first lead role in a romantic comedy in the Showmax Original film Soos Pynappel op Pizza, released earlier this year. The two-time Comics Choice winner is no stranger to the acting game though...
Feb 26, 2025 | ARTicle
By BRUCE DENNILL Nick Clelland’s debut novel Good Hope is a pacey, dystopian thriller that asks uncomfortable questions around the precariousness of statehood, the fragility of identity and the conflict between security and freedom. In the story, the...
Feb 9, 2025 | ARTicle
By BRUCE DENNILL It’s time to sweat out the sadness. Spin Cycles at the Baxter Theatre offers a cathartic look into why we search for something deeper when the inconceivable happens to us. After an earth-shattering year, can a journalist spin herself out...
Jan 25, 2025 | ARTicle
By BRUCE DENNILL Paul Slabolepszy’s new play Bitter Winter, which pays poignant tribute to South African Theatre, will premier at Pieter Toerien’s Studio Theatre at Montecasino in February. Slabolepszy, the recent recipient of a Naledi Lifetime...
Dec 18, 2024 | ARTicle
By BRUCE DENNILL Justin Fox is the author of World War II thriller The Wolf Hunt. Writing a book is a huge commitment. What are the elements that need to be in place if you are going to meet whatever writing goals you set? Time. I need big chunks of...
