Jun 30, 2016 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat / Directed by Paul Warwick Griffin / Pieter Torien’s Montecasino Theatre, Fourways, Johannesburg After Act 1 of this compact new production of the more enjoyable, slightly less irreverent of...
Jun 22, 2016 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL Neil Diamond: Melody Road 4 Jack White: Lazaretto 8 Sing Uit!: Aanbiddingsbelewenis 6 Neil Diamond calls the songs on this album a return to his musical roots. That may be true,...
Jun 19, 2016 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL Joburg Ballet: Ballets For Winter / Artistic direction by Iain MacDonald / Roodepoort Theatre, Roodepoort Joburg Ballet’s new strategy – more productions with shorter runs – is working on a number of levels. Different programmes mean...
Jun 16, 2016 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL Suddenly The Storm / Directed by Bobby Heaney / Barney Simon Theatre, Market Theatre, Newtown, Johannesburg A new play by Paul Slabolepszy should be a reason for fanfare. Even without his near-peerless track record as a playwright (over...
Jun 7, 2016 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL The Judge / Directed by David Dobkin / 16L 8.5 The Forger / Directed by Philip Martin / 16L 7 Devil’s Knot / Directed by Atom Egoyan / 13LV ...
May 30, 2016 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL Africa Day Concert / Newtown Park, Johannesburg With so many options in the area – the Joburg and Market Theatres; Mary Fitzgerald Square; the Bassline; even the hulking shed that is the Sci Bono Centre – the choice of the nondescript...
