Dec 5, 2022 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL David Gray: White Ladder – The 20th Anniversary Tour / SunBet Arena, Time Square, Pretoria The mental image of David Gray that most music fans have is of the Englishman sitting at a piano as he sings, and being a relatively...
Dec 3, 2022 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL The Lumineers: Brightside World Tour / SunBet Arena, Time Square, Pretoria The Lumineers’ live performance is characterised by a high level of musicality – everyone’s a multi-instrumentalist, and they present the possibly unique...
Nov 29, 2022 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL The Waterboys / Marks Park, Emmarentia, Johannesburg Originally scheduled for April 2020 and then postponed twice because of Covid, this first South African tour – how can that be possible? – for The Waterboys took a while to get...
Nov 22, 2022 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL Janice Honeyman’s Adventures In Pantoland / Directed by Janice Honeyman / The Mandela, Joburg Theatre, Braamfontein, Johannesburg For the occasion of Joburg Theatre’s 60th anniversary (and, remarkably, executive producer Bernard...
Nov 12, 2022 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL Come Together / Presented by LAMTA / Pieter Toerien’s Montecasino Theatre, Fourways, Johannesburg If you want to make an immediate connection with an audience, there are worse ideas than soundtracking a project with the music of...
Nov 12, 2022 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL Nik Rabinowitz: Unmuted / Directed by Brent Palmer / Theatre On The Square, Sandton, Johannesburg Nik Rabinowitz comedy shows involve a lot. A lot of intelligence. A lot of lateral thinking, much of it marinaded in sarcasm. A lot...
